Spoof zombie movie Shaun of the Dead took cinema goers by storm in 2004 and made pop-culture heroes out of lead actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Now the pair is back with Hot Fuzz - an action film that pulls no punches in its ribbing of big time Hollywood cinema.
Pegg helped write and acted in both films. In Hot Fuzz he plays crack cop Nicholas Angel, who is so good he makes everyone else look bad. So his workmates conspire against him and get him re-assigned to a sleepy, "crime-free" English village called Sanford. Soon enough the sleepy little village turns out to be not so "crime-free" and Angel cottons on to the fact that a series of grisly "accidents" are not accidental at all.
Helping Angel out in Sabnford is police officer Danny Butterman, played by Frost, Pegg's hilarious sidekick in Shaun of the Dead - Cornetto anyone?
Breakfast spoke to Frost and Pegg about Hot Fuzz, which has been top of the UK box office for three weeks and opens in New Zealand cinemas on March 15.
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