Hot Fuzz

Cast
Nick Frost and Simon Pegg play police officers Danny Butterworth and Nicholas Angel, these two actors have previously worked with each other in previous productions; including 'Spaced' and 'Shaun of the Dead'. Nicholas Angel is an over committed Metropolitan police officer who is seen as 'too good' for the city and is transferred to the countryside to work with the laid-back PC Danny Butterworth, who is obsessed by the idea of being an action-cop. Jim Broadbent plays Danny's father Inspector Frank Butterworth and Timothy Dalton plays a sinister supermarket manager. There are also cameos from Steve Coogan,Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman and Stephen Merchant


Location 

The film begins in London at the Metropolitan Police Station but swiftly moves to the picturesque village of Sandford in Gloucestershire.












Directors 

The film is directed by Edgar Wright, He also directed Shaun of the Dead and Spaced with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. He is the Writer, along with Simon Pegg of Hot fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. He also plays a cameo in the film as a shelf stacker in Somerfield. 














Sterotypes

In the film there are two main stereotypes shown, that of a Metropolitan police officer who is obsessed and overly committed and lets the job take over his life and of Police officers in the countryside who are stereotypically lazy and very casual about their jobs. 








Humour 

Hot Fuzz is a comedy film, it follows along the same lines as Shaun of the Dead, it mocks conventional cop-action films similar to the way Shaun of the Dead mocks a horror film. The film uses many typical British puns and mocking jokes throughout the film, the over-seriousness of Sergeant Angel makes some of the situations he is put in seem very funny. 




Camera work

The camera work and angles are used to make situations in the film seem more exciting and typical of action films than it is. It uses quick angles changes and close ups regularly to do so. 












How the film targets British audiences
This film targets British audience with the typical British humour and jokes throughout the film, It uses British stereotypes which british audiences will understand and find funny, It is sort of a British comedic version of a typical American Cop-action film.