Hot Fuzz

I must be getting old. This film is currently doing big business in the UK box offices and on the BBC film reviews pages the reviewer gave it 4 out of a possible 5 stars, whilst the viewers rating was 5 stars (on the basis of 5000 or more votes). I really couldn't rate this more than 2 stars. I know it is intended as one long spoof of many film genres, and clearly the cast and the directors were enjoying themselves incredibly, but I couldn't raise much of a laugh. The jokes are done to death, the film is about an hour too long, and the last hour seemed to be tagged on just for the entertainment of the cast. It is a tale of a London supercop who is sent to a sleepy village where he discovers the entire population is under the thumb of a sinister neighbourhood watch committee. This is an excuse for a series of parodies of Hammer Horror films, and any other film you can think of. The cast contains every possible British actor who has ever worked on TV or film - Timothy Dalton, Steve Coogan, Edward Woodward, etc, etc, but why did they bother I wonder. My rating? 4/10 Clearly this film wasn't aimed at me!