Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
81
(37 sources)
81
(37 sources)
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Chicago Reader
The good humor bubbles up from a deep reservoir of affection for Hollywood schlock. Read Full Review » -
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91
Baltimore Sun
It's not hard to imagine these characters in a straight-faced Hollywood blockbuster. And that's the source of Hot Fuzz's genius, pointing out the thin line that separates convention from farce when Hollywood starts throwing its special effects around. Read Full Review » -
91
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Everything an action-comedy should be. It achieves through parody what most films in the genre can't accomplish straight. Read Full Review » -
91
Christian Science Monitor
In addition to the marvelous lead cast, all sorts of funny performers show up in cameo roles, including Steve Coogan, Bill Nighy, and Timothy Dalton. Read Full Review » -
90
LA Weekly
For most of its running time, it's an enjoyably unpretentious celebration of the guilty pleasure we can take from a stupid-as-all-get-out car chase or from watching things blow up real good. Then, in its final half hour, Wright and Pegg ratchet up the absurdity tenfold and enter the realm of the sublime. Read Full Review » -
90
Los Angeles Times
Wright and Pegg are storytellers who weave their naughty bits into genuine characters and a plot. It's a ridiculous plot, but one that's absolutely in the spirit of the films they're satirizing. Read Full Review » -
90
Newsweek
Summer hasn't arrived, but the funniest riff on a summer movie genre has already landed. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
Pegg and Wright are armed with an endlessly impressive arsenal of attention grabbers, from witty editing tricks to a wry soundtrack and a joke-packed script that demands multiple viewings. Read Full Review » -
88
Charlotte Observer
If you see Hot Fuzz, you'll never again watch a Michael Bay film without howling with disrespectful laughter. Read Full Review » -
83
Entertainment Weekly
In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good. Read Full Review » -
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hot Fuzz is something all too rare in movie comedies: a story rather than a string of disjointed skits, with hearty characters behind its caricatures. Read Full Review » -
83
Portland Oregonian
It's smashing fun, nonetheless, made with razor wit and continual invention and far, far fresher than not only Hollywood buddy-cop movies but also Hollywood's own spoofs of them. Read Full Review » -
80
Salon.com
At once deeply affectionate and sharply observed: There's never anything smart-alecky about Wright's approach as a director. Read Full Review » -
80
Slate
Really, do we need another dumb action movie to remind us how dumb action movies are?...Yes. We absolutely do. Read Full Review » -
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80
The New Yorker
The whole enterprise goes far beyond pastiche, wreathing its characters in a film-intoxicated world. Read Full Review » -
80
Variety
A sustained genre parody that's equally funny but (maybe in deference to the genre) much more pumped up. Read Full Review » -
80
Village Voice
A British variation on Hollywood nonsense, and as such it's a little gloomier, a little coarser, and a lot more cerebral--oh, and funnier than all the "Reno 911!" boxed sets combined. Read Full Review » -
80
Film Threat
The thrill of Hot Fuzz is the chemistry between Nicholas and local oaf Danny Butterman, who is an action film aficionado and finds Nicholas' stories utterly engrossing. Read Full Review » -
80
The New York Times
Since Mr. Wright and Mr. Pegg are essentially parodying self-parodies, they have also smartly kinked up their conceit by setting most of the film in a sleepy village that might as well be called Ye Old English Towne, thereby wedding one of the most irritating British exports to one of the most absurd American ones. Think of it as "The Full Monty" blown to smithereens. Read Full Review » -
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ReelViews
A little too long and suffers from a sagging midsection when the level of exposition becomes laborious, but the spectacularly entertaining final 30 minutes compensates for a lot of flaws. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Tribune
The best of it is a riot--a "Bad Boys II" fireball hurled with exquisite accuracy at a quaint English town peopled by Agatha Christie archetypes. Read Full Review » -
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's bloody carnage - or it's ketchup, or bolognese sauce, at the very least. Read Full Review » -
75
Boston Globe
It's to the "Lethal Weapon" movies what left-hand driving on a country lane is to a freeway chase: pokey, more than a little daft, but with a bloody surprise around every hedge. Read Full Review » -
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Plays like two films in one, and succeeds on both levels. Read Full Review » -
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
With Hot Fuzz, you'll just have to settle for semi-hilarity. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Post
A real actioner, generous with the bullets and blood and chase scenes, that simultaneously mocks shoot-'em-ups. Read Full Review » -
70
Washington Post
Hot Fuzz deploys the same mix of genre conventions, slapstick and old-school British humor that made "Shaun of the Dead" such a dumb-but-good romp. Read Full Review » -
70
New York Magazine
Hot Fuzz is fun, and it's nice to see all the English character actors who aren't busy in Harry Potter films, but it lacks its predecessor's freshness. Read Full Review » -
63
Miami Herald
Basically a one-joke movie, and they take their sweet time -- too much of it, actually -- getting to the good stuff. But what excellent laughs they provide in the end. Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
Though it's no "Monty Python," Hot Fuzz is a clever, over-the-top marriage of mayhem and merriment. Read Full Review » -
60
The Hollywood Reporter
All the action is staged with energy, but it gets relentless without anything really funny going on. Read Full Review »
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