Hot Fuzz

Exclusive DVD extra: "Firing in the Air"

Director Edgar Wright and co-writer/star Simon Pegg follow up their zombie comedy "Shaun of the Dead" with this inventive parody of armed-and-dangerous buddy-cop films and Britain's cottage industry of cozy murder mysteries in picaresque rural villages. Pegg is perfect as the too-square-to-be-true super-cop dumped into a sleepy little town and saddled with a sad-sack slob of a partner (Nick Frost), whose training consists of careful study of Hollywood action blockbusters. Wright drives the film with the momentum of a runaway chase and directs with crack timing and high style, delivering a surreal parody of urban action conventions and a cleverly constructed piece of double-barrel spectacle with a comic edge. Available in separate wide-screen and full-screen versions, plus an HD DVD combo disc. In place of a "making of" featurette is the 28-minute "The Fuzzball Rally: U.S. Tour Piece" with the fun-loving trio of Wright, Pegg and Frost barnstorming America with live appearances at preview screenings, goofing through interviews, and flushing birthday cakes down hotel toilets across the country. Also features commentary by Wright and Pegg, many deleted/alternate scenes (explore the bonus screen for more), 10 minutes of outtakes, alternate storyboard and trivia tracks, and "Hot Funk," a montage of key scenes with alternate dialogue for TV ("Peas and rice!").