“Hot Fuzz” is a hilarious British comedy directed by Edgar Wright (“Baby Driver”) and starring Simon Pegg (“Star Trek Into Darkness”) and Nick Frost (“Cuban Fury”). This is the second in the trio’s so-called “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy. It’s a really great movie that reminded me of films such as “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” franchise because it overwhelms you with the number of jokes.

Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is a highly skilled London police officer with a record so impressive that he makes his fellow colleagues look bad. His superiors decide to reassign him to a village in Gloucestershire. It initially seems like a peaceful place but when residents start dying in suspicious circumstances, Angel and his new partner (Frost) realise that something very wrong is going on.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are very funny here. Pegg gets to play a policeman that is absolutely brilliant at his job while Frost plays an overweight officer that has spent more time with action films than dealing with any real action. I initially saw the two in “Paul”, which was a really dreadful comedy. I’m pleased to say that “Hot Fuzz” shows that the two can be very entertaining together. The rest of the cast includes Timothy Dalton (“Licence To Kill”), Martin Freeman (“Nativity!”), Bill Nighy (“Love Actually”), Bill Bailey (“Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”), Jim Broadbent (“Moulin Rouge!”), Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Steve Coogan (“Philomena”). Dalton is easily my favourite.

There are so many great gags in here that I cannot count them. The funniest thing about the film is that it looks very professional and like it was made with a big budget yet it involves a rural setting with insignificant incidents such as a missing swan. The action sequences are just absolutely hysterical because they look like a shootout you would see in a Hollywood movie. I also cannot finish without mentioning the hilarious part where Frost’s character finds DVDs of “Silent Rage” and “Supercop”. I never thought I’d see a film reference “Silent Rage” but there you go.