I'm slow. It took me two years to finally watch SHAUN OF THE DEAD. I was afraid it would be smug snarky meta-irony, and I get enough of that from cartoons and advertising. Happily, SOTD was fantastic, a wonderful script and made by people like Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who GET the genre but don't act superior. How many zombie movies make you cry? And Wright's DON'T trailer from GRINDHOUSE was easily the best one, an amalgamation of every British horror film ever made.

So HOT FUZZ.

Smart, funny, a tad overlong and missing the more emotional cues from SOTH, but nobody in America is making this kind of satire. HOT FUZZ sends up the Bruckheimer homo-erotic gun pix with affection if not irreverence, thank God.

And with an astounding supporting cast of great English actors, you can't go wrong. My favorite is Timothy Dalton (who was a great James Bond) as the sinister grocery store manager. Loved seeing Edward Woodward pop up as a tribute to THE WICKER MAN along with the creepy littlle village. Simon Pegg is a surprisingly terrific action hero, quite the opposite of the shlub from SOTD.
Although Edgar Wright directs with the Avid frame-fucking of a Bruckheimer product, he also knows how to perfectly time a visual gag.

As of now, these guys are the best comedy filmmakers out there.