Faldor
Anarchist
I get the impression from a few people that I shouldn't say anything bad about this film simply because they want to like it so much. If they is your opinion, open your mind. Is it a good film? Oh Yes. Is it a step up from Shaun of the Dead? Sadly Not.
Pegg and Wright have written another script taking a quiet English setting, this time a Gloucestershire village and mixed it with Hollywood type action. This is all good. Pegg plays super cop Nicolas Angel, who's the best of the best, The metropolitan police have a problem with this, it's making the rest of them look bad. So he's transferred to the village of Sandford.
Now this is where my problem with the movie is, the first half is too slow and uneventful, It shows Angel, a by the book copper in a village where people don't mind bending the law if it's for the greater good. Know one minds letting under 18s drink in the local pub if its stopping them getting up to no good on the streets, and when bad things start happening and people start turning up dead the local detectives don't really seem bothered to solve it because it was probably just an accident, accidents happen all the time you know.
Slow as it maybe the first half is just a set up for the second half which is absolutely fantastic. It is a formula that goes something like this. Take your favourite Hollywood action sequence, take away the baddies and add your favourite English country stereotype.
Now there are flaws with this film mainly that it's such a farce. The main problem is the lack of characterisation. Nicolas Angel is just a walking cliché which whilst amusing doesn't really carry the film. Imagine Shaun without the romantic subplot. Pegg and Nick Frost are immediately back in their old double act which is always nice to see but it doesn't really have any depth here. The depth of character displayed in SPACED is missed. It's also a shame that some of the references in the film almost feels less out of spaced and more out of something along the lines of "Scary Movie" Harsh criticism I know but I couldn't help watching a few moments without thinking the filmmakers are just going "oh look this is our Omen tribute"¦"
The supporting cast is top notch, 80's Bond Timothy Dalton is fantastic as moustached supermarket manager. Adam Buxton who was half of the brilliant "Adam and Joe Show" in the mid nineties which sadly was only ever seen by me and 5 other people does a great job as the wannabe tabloid writer of the local newspaper. Jim Broadbent was superb as the villages chief of police. The start of the film has quite a few cameos from the current comedy scene as well as people from Shaun of the dead and I was a tad concerned it was just going to be another outing for the same cast, but no, pretty much all the supporting cast were chosen because you'll recognise them from somewhere else, be it the Wicker Man [the real one], Raiders of the Lost arc or Bond.
I can't see the film having the same transatlantic success of its predecessor as the main joke is that the mundane British police going off on one with lots of guns. Whereas over there every policeman is like those off of Point Break or Bad Boys 2. Right?
Pegg and Wright have written another script taking a quiet English setting, this time a Gloucestershire village and mixed it with Hollywood type action. This is all good. Pegg plays super cop Nicolas Angel, who's the best of the best, The metropolitan police have a problem with this, it's making the rest of them look bad. So he's transferred to the village of Sandford.
Now this is where my problem with the movie is, the first half is too slow and uneventful, It shows Angel, a by the book copper in a village where people don't mind bending the law if it's for the greater good. Know one minds letting under 18s drink in the local pub if its stopping them getting up to no good on the streets, and when bad things start happening and people start turning up dead the local detectives don't really seem bothered to solve it because it was probably just an accident, accidents happen all the time you know.
Slow as it maybe the first half is just a set up for the second half which is absolutely fantastic. It is a formula that goes something like this. Take your favourite Hollywood action sequence, take away the baddies and add your favourite English country stereotype.
Now there are flaws with this film mainly that it's such a farce. The main problem is the lack of characterisation. Nicolas Angel is just a walking cliché which whilst amusing doesn't really carry the film. Imagine Shaun without the romantic subplot. Pegg and Nick Frost are immediately back in their old double act which is always nice to see but it doesn't really have any depth here. The depth of character displayed in SPACED is missed. It's also a shame that some of the references in the film almost feels less out of spaced and more out of something along the lines of "Scary Movie" Harsh criticism I know but I couldn't help watching a few moments without thinking the filmmakers are just going "oh look this is our Omen tribute"¦"
The supporting cast is top notch, 80's Bond Timothy Dalton is fantastic as moustached supermarket manager. Adam Buxton who was half of the brilliant "Adam and Joe Show" in the mid nineties which sadly was only ever seen by me and 5 other people does a great job as the wannabe tabloid writer of the local newspaper. Jim Broadbent was superb as the villages chief of police. The start of the film has quite a few cameos from the current comedy scene as well as people from Shaun of the dead and I was a tad concerned it was just going to be another outing for the same cast, but no, pretty much all the supporting cast were chosen because you'll recognise them from somewhere else, be it the Wicker Man [the real one], Raiders of the Lost arc or Bond.
I can't see the film having the same transatlantic success of its predecessor as the main joke is that the mundane British police going off on one with lots of guns. Whereas over there every policeman is like those off of Point Break or Bad Boys 2. Right?