Brits Do Comedy Wright (and Pegg) with Hot Fuzz 

"Hot Fuzz" is hilarious. The two guys who made one of my favorite films in the world, "Shaun of the Dead", have applied the same humor and reverence of schlock to the standard buddy-cop film. Watch any movies for free on this site https://fmovies.dev/. Director Edgar Wright directed and co-wrote the film with actor Simon Pegg, who plays the lead in the film and the pair's trademark exaggerated zoom-cuts and "Airplane!"-style humor are very much in evidence, but not repetitively so. Just as "Shaun of the Dead" poked loving fun at the zombie-film genre, but added moments of real fear and genuine emotion, "Hot Fuzz" takes every stereotypical element of the cop noir: 70's-style mustaches and sunglasses, "Death Wish" piles of weapons, "Lethal Weapon" camaraderie and Jackie Chan-like foot chases, and sticks them in a rural English village. The movie pokes fun at not only police movies but at the quaint, picturesque English country lifestyle made famous in so many British export films. The film is funny on so many levels, it bears watching two or three times just to catch all the jokes.

What this film has done is to make it clear that the Brits are at the top of their game as far as comedy is concerned and they simply blow the States out of the water. American film studios have nothing to compare to the high- and lowbrow comedy that British cinema seems equally versed at making. Our films are either drily humorous or slapstick stupid, but rarely both. The teams of Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrel, the Owen brothers and Ben Stiller, they are the closest equivalent that we have here in the States, but they are nowhere near as versatile as the teams of Wright and Pegg, Gervais and Merchant, who have long honed their craft in the theatre and on television.

The US is slipping. Our comedies are still famous the world over and appeal to the lowest-common denominator of international humor, where language is unnecessary and nuance lost, but the Brits still sit on the throne of real laughter.