From the guys who watched every action flick ever made and brought you Shaun of the Dead, comes Hot Fuzz, the most deliriously entertaining comedy your likely to see all year.

Simon Pegg is Sergeant Nicholas Angel, a highly decorated London police officer who's known for getting the job done - no matter what it takes. When the mucky mucks at Angel's precinct decide that Angel's infamous exploits are making the rest of the department look bad, he is unexpectedly shipped off to a new precinct. A precint so far away from the action that it's the equivalent of Siberia.

Angel soon learns that a typical day in his new beat involves missing geese and traffic backups due to stray sheep. Making matters all the more frustrating is that he is partnered with an underachieving, nitwit of an officer name Danny Butterman (a hilarious Nick Frost).

The biggest surprise in store for Angel is that before long a string of bizarre and inexplicable occurence begin to take place one after another. Is it possible that there's more to this peacable burg than meets the eye? Not only are these misadventures strange but in many cases fatal.

Hot Fuzz is the brainchild of Spaced creators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, and once again they knock it out of the park with a film that not only scores as a brilliant bit of fanboy cinematic bliss (this time, taking pokes at Michael Bay era action films), but as a pretty damn cool action film in it's own right. There's also a diabolically wicked mystery going on and and Wright and crew are extremely clever in the way they shift suspicion from one character to the next. The humor itself is groundbreaking in much the same way as Borat or a Wes Anderson Film such as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and Tenenbaums. Wright, Pegg and Frost use Violence as the backdrop to weave this amazingly original work of comedy. In fact the Boneman remarked on the way out that he didn't think he'd ever see a film that would rival Borat for sheer quantity and quality of laughs, but had to admit that Hot Fuzz might just be that film. It all culminates in a hilarious reveal that truly delivers.

At the forefront of this homage to the biggest and baddest of action films, are big time winks at the likes of Point Break and Bad Boys II, but the film also throws in elements of other genres as well including horror (this film is gleefully gory) Including one of the most famous Stephen King bits of all time, which more than anything underscored what an original work of comedy Hot Fuzz really is.

While Shaun of the Dead certainly has it's cutting edge comical element, it also had a real sense of horror and a deft dramatic touch. Hot Fuzz, by comparison, is far more broad in terms of it's comical approach, but considering the outlandishly over-the-top genre that it's sending up the comic largess that Hot Fuzz revels in is truly spot on and very frequently inspired.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are incredibly adept with this style of comedy, which they proved beyond a doubt eith Shaun of the Dead. And here their flair for deadpan dumb-guy delivery is absolutely impeccible. Of course much of the credit here belongs to Wright. Like their director, Pegg and Frost are massive movie geeks at heart, and their pure love of film is evident throughout Hot Fuzz. The jokes come so fast, and furious, that there's no way a single viewing is enough to take it all in. And in fact, Hot Fuzz really emerges as a new breed of comedy. It isn't straight up parody. It's something much, much more, and as I watched the exhaustive antics going on in this film, I was also reminded of watching Airplane! for the first time. I suppose you could say that Wright and crew have invented an entirely new sub genre.

Hot Fuzz is populated with a wide array of top notch veteran talent including an eccentric Jim Broadbent, a dead pan Bill Nighy, and a villainously droll Timothy Dalton, and all are given their moments to shine. Dalton in particular, appears to relish in the role of the dastardly local whom, for all the world, appears to be getting away with murder.

If I have one criticism towards this movie, it would be the editing. Wright loves to do this strange cutting thing in his films. It's a kind of hyper kinetic, quick cut montage technique (something Martin Scorsese has mastered to perfection). He used it in Shaun of the Dead a couple of times as well, but here, I think he resorts to it a little too much. There were a couple of times when I found these cutting choices distracting. A minor quibble towards an otherwise knockout film experience.

I still prefer the unexpected pleasure that is Shaun of the Dead. Maybe it's because I'm such a huge fan of the zombie genre, or perhaps it's because that movie came out of nowhere and blind sided me. Whatever the case may be, Edgar Wright and his mighty pack of movie geeks have avoided the sophomore slump with the gloriously hilarious, ultra violent, extremely well paced Hot Fuzz. I can't imagine there'll be a funnier movie this year.