DVD of the Week: Hot Fuzz

Horror spoof Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright sets his sights on the buddy cop genre this time around, bringing along Shaun costars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for a hilarious, pitch-perfect parody and loving homage to action movies of all kinds. It takes a very brave film to gleefully extol the glories of Michael Bay's Bad Boys II, but this one does that and more. It's as in love with lowest common denominator flicks as it is critical of them. It's more of a fun nudge than a blunt, berating send up. Here Pegg plays an ace police officer who gets reassigned to a quaint little town where there's hardly any reported crime. He meets up with an action movie obsessed officer played by Nick Frost and together they investigate some shady goings on in the neighborhood. It turns out that there's no crime, but lots of "accidents."