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Hot Fuzz!! (non-spoilered)
Apr. 30th, 2007 04:52 pm
Finally got to see Hot Fuzz last night, yay! About two months after all my British friends told me just how good it was ::sulk::
I'd heard so many people say Wright and Pegg had managed to surpass Shaun of the Dead, and they weren't wrong. It's astonishingly difficult to keep the jokes rolling through the second half of a comedy when you've got all that plot getting in the way, but they did it brilliantly. And even some of the 'throwaway' jokes and sight gags turned out to have plot relevance on some kind of level later on. When I think about the number of drafts and edits that script must have gone through to weave it all together so carefully, it makes my head ache. And I'm sitting here right now, trying to think if there was a single joke in there that fell flat, anything that misfired or didn't quite come off for me, and offhand I genuinely can't think of one.
How many comedies can you say that about?
I just found out from imdb that Peter Jackson was the Santa! And watching the end credits, I had to wonder whether the Robert Rodriguez who contributed to the soundtrack and was on the 'thanks to' list was the Robert Rodriguez - it's exactly the sort of project he'd think it was fun to get involved in, and the 'Desperado' homage with the guns was obvious. I can't find any conclusive proof, but Wikipaedia thinks it was him.
I'd heard so many people say Wright and Pegg had managed to surpass Shaun of the Dead, and they weren't wrong. It's astonishingly difficult to keep the jokes rolling through the second half of a comedy when you've got all that plot getting in the way, but they did it brilliantly. And even some of the 'throwaway' jokes and sight gags turned out to have plot relevance on some kind of level later on. When I think about the number of drafts and edits that script must have gone through to weave it all together so carefully, it makes my head ache. And I'm sitting here right now, trying to think if there was a single joke in there that fell flat, anything that misfired or didn't quite come off for me, and offhand I genuinely can't think of one.
How many comedies can you say that about?
I just found out from imdb that Peter Jackson was the Santa! And watching the end credits, I had to wonder whether the Robert Rodriguez who contributed to the soundtrack and was on the 'thanks to' list was the Robert Rodriguez - it's exactly the sort of project he'd think it was fun to get involved in, and the 'Desperado' homage with the guns was obvious. I can't find any conclusive proof, but Wikipaedia thinks it was him.
