Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve actually gone to a movie theater. In fact, I’m not even entirely sure where the local theater is around here. This place is messed up.

But that said, thanks to the glory of large flatscreen LCD TVs and such, the home is now a pretty darn good theater itself. And with movie channels and Comcast “On Demand” and such, every so often it’s nice to plop down and enjoy some old movie that I missed. Like Hot Fuzz.

What can I say?

F__king brilliant!

I mean I thought Shaun of the Dead was good, but Hot Fuzz totally blows it away as the best satire movie ever. These folks are awesome. This isn’t cheap humor like those Scary Movie wannabes. This is real comedy, done well. If you haven’t seen it but thought about it, I’d highly suggest it. The plot managed enough of a twist to actually be interesting, which totally wasn’t expected from a satire movie. The acting was well done, not over the top, and not playing down to the lowest common denominator. Everything just fell right into place, which so often doesn’t happen in movies. And, of course, it was just damn funny!

It kind of makes me wonder actually … why is it that the Brits can produce such fine humor these days while the Americans can barely get past the level of fart jokes? I mean you have to go to the level of Clerks 2 to even remotely catch something of the same quality. (Not that there aren’t other View Askew movies worth watching, but with the exception of Dogma perhaps, they lack a certain refined smooth transition from scene to scene that one would expect from a movie.)

Anywho, Hot Fuzz deservedly earns a whopping 10 out of 10 nipping swans in my opinion!