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Looks awesome.

Booking the cinema to go and watch it when Cookie comes home next month.

That does look good...

At the beginning, I thought it was just going to be some sort of rip off of The Hangover, but it does seem to take an interesting plot turn....

Sort of The Hangover meets Children Of the Corn...

Have you seen the other two in the series Jim? (They are not really a "series", just done by the same geezers.)

Apparently it's The Cornetto Trilogy, Gob...

Sorry to be a killjoy but we went to see it yesterday ... don't read on if you don't want spoilers .....












It was not good we absolutely love Shaun of The Dead & Hot Fuzz so were really looking forward to it. What we thought we would see was another great comedy - which it isn't. Its a buggers muddle of a film I'm not at all sure they knew what they wanted to achieve with it to be honest, it had the potential to be a great comedy (it wasn't) or a half decent mystery come sci fi adventure (and ended up not being that either) or a really dark moralistic drama (tried far too hard and failed by a wide margin). Sadly for Pegg & co I now won't be in any hurry to spend my hard earned pennies on a trip to the cinema to see them in something again I have a feeling this will do well at the box office initially purely because of how good the other 2 films were but as word spreads those numbers will drop.

Myself, Brahms, Xeno & DIL all came out saying the same thing - the film "got lost" they tried too hard got too carried away and even worse it went a bit "American" - no offence to my American friends but a huge part of the success and humour of the first two were because they were very very British comedies. I know that Pegg & Frost like to do homage's to "cult" or "popular" movies in their scripts and sometimes they can be quite obscure, but this time it felt like they struggled to find a way to make that work. I mean Richard Gere doing the "I got nowhere else to gooo" thing in An Officer & a Gentleman worked for that .... Pegg doing his take on it in this - doesn't - and worse than that it made me squirm it was so bloody awful. In fact Peggs character has few if any likable characteristics so it was hard to feel anything for him which is a problem when it seems we were supposed to empathise with him & cheer at the end, yet he's not unlikeable enough for us to feel he deserved what he was going through, he was just a tosser and he remained a tosser.

The ending felt very rushed like they had got there and had no idea what to do next so just shoved in last minute.

I may well watch it again now I know its NOT a comedy and see if that makes a difference to the way I see it but I'm not in any rush to do that.

Have you seen the other two in the series Jim?

I loved Shaun Of The Dead Strop, I haven't seen the other one...

After "Paul" (the real third one), was this not a predictable further down-turn? See Hot Fuzz LJ - it's the best of the bunch.

HOt fuzz might need a second viewing to fully appreciate the movie takes a hard turn that you might not be quite ready for. the problem with a movie completely taking the piss out of a genre movie is that you tend to be a little subconsciously protective of that genre.

Reality Bytes wrote:
It was not good we absolutely love Shaun of The Dead & Hot Fuzz so were really looking forward to it. What we thought we would see was another great comedy - which it isn't. Its a buggers muddle of a film I'm not at all sure they knew what they wanted to achieve with it to be honest, it had the potential to be a great comedy (it wasn't) or a half decent mystery come sci fi adventure (and ended up not being that either) or a really dark moralistic drama (tried far too hard and failed by a wide margin). Sadly for Pegg & co I now won't be in any hurry to spend my hard earned pennies on a trip to the cinema to see them in something again I have a feeling this will do well at the box office initially purely because of how good the other 2 films were but as word spreads those numbers will drop.

Myself, Brahms, Xeno & DIL all came out saying the same thing - the film "got lost" they tried too hard got too carried away and even worse it went a bit "American" - no offence to my American friends but a huge part of the success and humour of the first two were because they were very very British comedies. I know that Pegg & Frost like to do homage's to "cult" or "popular" movies in their scripts and sometimes they can be quite obscure, but this time it felt like they struggled to find a way to make that work. I mean Richard Gere doing the "I got nowhere else to gooo" thing in An Officer & a Gentleman worked for that .... Pegg doing his take on it in this - doesn't - and worse than that it made me squirm it was so bloody awful. In fact Peggs character has few if any likable characteristics so it was hard to feel anything for him which is a problem when it seems we were supposed to empathise with him & cheer at the end, yet he's not unlikeable enough for us to feel he deserved what he was going through, he was just a tosser and he remained a tosser.

The ending felt very rushed like they had got there and had no idea what to do next so just shoved in last minute.

I may well watch it again now I know its NOT a comedy and see if that makes a difference to the way I see it but I'm not in any rush to do that.

This. Word for fucking word.

Watch this instead.