I'd call it not quite as good as "Shaun of the Dead." But that may be because I like the genre of film that was affectionately satirizing (scary movies) more than the one this is (noisy. OTT buddy cop movies).
Either way, it's a difference of only about a percentage point if I were giving perecentage points. I'm kind of hoping its kickoff weekend underscores just how badly "Grindhouse" fell flat.
Where else are you going to see a sweet old lady get a flying roundhouse kick to the face?
By the hero, yet?
PS: This movie also contains possibly the single greatest "girl on girl" joke in cinema history...a thought that certainly puts the title in a somewhat different light...
BTW, the village in which most of the film's action takes place is called "Sandford." Here in Seattle, the theater where I saw it had this on the marquee:
Hot Fuzz
Sandford and Guns
We think ourselves quite clever, here in Seattle.
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i laughed much more than i thought i should have when the little old lady got kicked in the face! it was funny, so unexpected! also, i think the place across from SAM in seattle has some very clever things on the marquee too!
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