Much like his earlier parody “Shaun of the Dead,” Simon Pegg’s knowledge of blockbuster and cult films and ability to write and deliver witty dialogue is blended to form one of the funniest two hours for any explosion-craving movie fan out there. Pairing up again with director Edgar Wright and childhood friend Nick Frost (the team that also created the hysterical loafer comedy “Spaced!”), Pegg’s newest crackles with excitement and laughs and is filled with gore, explosions, gun wielding priests, and crisp, British humour.

Sergeant Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is the best police officer in London. Besmirched by his immaculate record, his higher ups send him off to the model village of Stanford. Rural, quiet, crimeless, and boring Stanford. Paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), the police chief’s son and action movie aficionado, Angel is slowly dragged from his high tension MP mentality and into an appreciation of Cornettos and the classics of the action genre like “Point Blank” and “Bad Boys II.” However, when a series of murders threaten to keep the town from winning another Town of the Year Award, it falls to Angel and Butterman to sort out the nefarious deeds … and catch the goose along the way.

Besides being a who’s who of British comedy with great performances by Pegg and Frost and cameos from Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Steve Coogan, and Bill Bailey, there are also notable performances by Timothy Dalton and Jim Broadbent as the slimy supermarket owner and chief of police. Various regulars in British sitcoms can be found scattered throughout the police force and village as well. As reverential as Tarantino, but with the tongue-in-cheek style of the Scary Movie films (but actually funny), “Hot Fuzz” is a brilliant piss-take of the movies we love and are afraid to admit to.