Sargent Angel is London's best police officer. He does everything by the book and yet has the highest arrest rate by about 400%. He is so good that his superiors want to see the back of him, he is making them all look really bad. So they promote him and send him to a small rural village called Sandford.

Angel (Simon Pegg) is not happy to go to this town but has no real choice. When he arrives he has trouble adjusting from the fast paced city policing that he is so familiar with to the quiet rural kind where his most demanding work is finding an escaped goose.

All too soon though Angel suspects fowl play when a series of unfortunately and untimely accidents begin to unravel. His colleagues think he is just obsessed with murder and sees it everywhere.

Simon Pegg (aka Shaun from Shaun of the Dead) has a habit of choosing really good films it would seem. Granted the fact that he is on the writing staff would help with this somewhat. Shaun of the Dead was a brilliant parody of Zombie Flicks, this one does the same thing for Buddy Police Action films.

But unlike spoofs like Scary Movie, they opt to not parody a series of Blockbusters and then worry about the storyline later. They focus on spoofing a genre by skillfully taking the unwritten rules of the film genre and purposefully falling into them the way only they can.

What more can I say? This isn't a 'silly' film, this is a 'funny' film. There are some gory moments but they are few and far between and there is some coarse language from time to time but it is relatively low in comparison to others.

Go see this!

see also:
Anchorman, Big Nothing, Zombieland, Tropic Thunder

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