this is the tightest comedy dialogue ever

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I honestly believe that Hot Fuzz's script will become a goto for film classes in future years. It's perfect. Every single line of dialogue either advances the plot or sets up a gag, if it isn't doing both at the same time.

There are layers upon layers upon layers of callbacks in the Cornetto Trilogy. What Wright/Pegg/Frost achieve in them is beyond hilarious - comedy as art.

I love how even though the lines repeat/mirror, nothing feels artificial or stilted. Everything feels like something that would just be said normally. And that's art.

Shaun of the dead and hot fuzz are completely untouchable in my eyes

I love the detail where it turns out Shaun is the one that keeps leaving the door open not ed. when Shaun goes to the shop in the morning he leaves the door open and the one armed zombie gets in because of it.

I’ve loved Edgar Wrights comedy since spaced and I love how he juggles the likability of the characters and the comedy. Paired with purposeful direction and well thought out funny characters I can’t think of one project of his I have disliked.

I still think that Hot Fuzz is the tightest of the trilogy, with the callbacks truly perfect.

The way Nick Frost just collapses through the fence in Hot Fuzz is top-notch physical comedy

I love the writing as he's flicking through channels and the snippets of sentences make one long sentence telling the real story

my favorite dialog-based callbacks are the ones that get recontextualized, like the "cock it" and the "glad somebody made it". there's a specific tragedy to the "i'll stop doing them when you stop laughing" "i'm not laughing" exchange being recontextualized from "i'm not laughing, that joke was stupid and i'm cheekily letting you know that" to "i'm not laughing, these are tears. i'm crying." some other dialog-based callbacks that i only noticed on later rewatches: - pete's "stop defending him, shaun! all he ever does is hold you back!" gets brought back by ed himself as his reasoning for shaun leaving him behind ("all i ever do is hold you back.") - the whole film, every time ed decides to leave to do something, he says "two seconds." every time. at the very end of the movie, after shaun tells liz he's going to pop into the garden to visit him in the shed, he says to himself "two seconds." that ones makes me tear up sometimes. - when liz first breaks up with shaun, she starts her spiel by saying "look, if i don't do something..." and shaun's only response is "what do you mean 'do something'?" and then later when shaun needs to drive the zombie hoard away from the winchester he says they'll follow them in unless he does something, and this time it's liz who responds "what do you mean 'do something'?" amazing film.

Ah yes, it is in every Video Essayist’s destiny to make a video about the great Edgar Wright. It warms the heart.

Good lord... I think I've seen this movie nearly 20 times and you still managed to show me new parallels that I'd never noticed before. HOW IS THIS MOVIE SO GOOD?

So basically this movie--which I actually rewatched a month or two ago--is even more brilliant than I thought it was. Half of those callbacks I didn't even notice.

I've watched Shaun of the Dead probably several hundred times since it's release. Along with many of the movies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in, I truly believe they are the perfect comedic duo.

Edgar's comedy is so quick and snappy, with such tightly woven plots and character beats that make for not only some of the funniest films I've watched, but also most heartfelt films too. With the jokes being so quick you pick up on them all, but different jokes hit you harder every time, maybe you'll notice something you missed last time, overall they're bloody brilliant. But hell, the repetition works phenomenally, it's done so well. Edgar Wright never misses. Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, World's Ends, Baby Driver and Last Night in Soho are all phenomenal. He's probably my favourite director cause his style works for so many film genres. Light-hearted low stakes shows, zombies, cop drama, comic adaptation, sci-fi apocalypse, heist and supernatural timetravel, he's so dynamic and seems to hit every beat he needs to and then some. Love everything I've watched of his and look forward to the future

One of the most competently achieved productions in the history of cinema. There isn't a single word or frame that isn't entirely required, relevant or referential Top 3 British movies of all time - absolute perfection

I think my late husband got a copy of it out of a Wal-Mart bin after someone he worked with recommended it. We didn't know what we were going to watch, other than something zombie-related (which we both agreed was getting pretty old because everything was zombie-related at the time). But we laughed the whole way through and absolutely loved it. It became an instant favorite.

The easiest way i can describe the comedy in these movie are comfy level of humor. The chemistry with everyone and how the joke lands make these movies timeless classic, i wish to see more Simon Pegg in future. Its sad he is not in the movies anymore as main lead.

God I love Spaced. That whole team is amazing, everything they do is fantastic