Product Description
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Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic,
Norwegian, Swedish
Hot Fuzz
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Shaun of the Dead
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
.co.uk Review
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a finger-blistering time
of right now, yet in a hundred years it will still be so crammed
with charm, wit, brio, and exuberance it will still be
irresistible. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an
accidental heartbreaker, a Canadian slacker who obsesses over the
girls who've dumped him but hardly realizes how he's dumped other
girls. But everything else in his life (including playing bass in
a band) fades to insignificance when he lays eyes on Ramona (Mary
Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard), his deadpan pixie
dream girl. Unfortunately, Ramona has some serious baggage: seven
deadly exes, and Scott must battle them all if he wants to date
Ramona. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is saturated in pop culture,
particularly video games. Many events make almost no sense, but
it doesn't matter--sheer narrative ferocity and glee of invention
sweep the viewer along. Cera pushes his geek/dork dreamboat
persona to new heights of sweet twee-ness; if this movie doesn't
shoot him into the stratosphere, we live in a cold, unfeeling
universe, bereft of justice. The whole supporting cast (including
Kieran Culkin, Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans,
Brandon Routh, and a host of less familiar but excellent young
actors) plays every moment for all it's worth. This movie is
supremely uncool and passionate, which makes it essential
viewing. --Bret Fetzer
Hot Fuzz
A major British hit, a lorryload of laughs and some sparkling
action? We’ll have some of that. It’s fair to say that Hot Fuzz
proves that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s brilliant Shaun Of The
Dead was no one-off, serving up a superbly crafted British homage
to the Hollywood action movie.
Deliberately set in the midst of a y, quaint English village
of Sandford, Pegg’s Nicholas Angel is sent there because,
bluntly, he’s too good at his job, and he’s making his city
colleagues look bad. The proverbial fish out of water, Angel soon
discovers that not everything in Sandford is quite as it seems,
and joins forces with Nick Frost’s lumbering Danny Butterman to
find out what’s what.
Hot Fuzz then proceeds to have a rollicking good time in both
tipping its hat to the genre films that are clearly its loving
inspiration, and coming up with a few tricks of its own. It does
comedy better than action, with plenty of genuine laugh-out-loud
moments, but it’s no slouch either when the tempo needs raising.
One of the many strong cards it plays is its terrific cast, which
includes former 007 Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy, Bill Bailey,
Paddy Considine, Edward Woodward and Jim Broadbent.
Hot Fuzz, ultimately, just falls short of Shaun Of The Dead, but
more than does enough to warrant many, many repeat viewings. It’s
terrific fun, and in the true hit action movie style,
all-but-demands some form of sequel. That said, with Pegg and
Wright now with two excellent, and suitably different, genres
ticked off, it’ll be interesting to see what they do next. A
period drama, perhaps…? --Simon Brew
Shaun of the Dead
It's no disparagement to describe Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s
zombie-rom-com Shaun of the Dead as playing like an extended
episode of Spaced. Not only does the movie have the rather modest
of a TV production, it also boasts the snappy editing,
smart camera moves, and deliciously post-modern dialogue familiar
from the sitcom, as well as using many of the same cast: Pegg’s
Shaun and Nick Frost’s Ed are doppelgangers of their Spaced
characters, while Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz appear
in smaller roles. Unlike the TV series, it’s less important for
the audience to be in on the movie in-jokes, though it won’t hurt
if you know George Romero’s famous Dawn of the Dead trilogy,
which is liberally plundered for zombie behaviour and mythology.
Shaun is a loser, stuck in a dead-end job and held back by his
slacker pal Ed. Girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is exasperated by
his lack of ambition and unceremoniously dumps him. As a result,
Shaun misses out on what is apparently the end of the world. In a
series of beautifully choreographed and edited scenes, including
hilarious tracking s to and from the local shop, he
spectacularly fails to notice the death toll and subsequent
zombie plague. Only when one appears in their back garden do
Shaun and Ed take notice, hurling sundry kitchen appliances at
the undead before breaking out the cricket bat. The catastrophe
proves to be the catalyst for Shaun to take charge of his life,
sort out his relations with his dotty mum (Penelope Wilton) and
distant stepdad (Bill Nighy), and fight to win back his
ex-girlfriend. Lucy Davis from The Office and Dylan Moran of
Black Books fame head the excellent supporting cast. --Mark
Walker