Hot Fuzz (2007)

By-the-book super cop is given a "promotion" and sent off to a sleepy little hamlet so that his fellow police can have a break from looking incompetent by comparison.

This is a buddy cop movie the way the same team's "Shaun of the Dead" was a zombie movie. It takes all of the familiar elements of the genre and doesn't exactly spoof them so much as take them to extremes while obviously having a blast doing so.

I'm gonna be a bit of a spoilsport, though...the central crime organization is SO ridiculously over-the-top that it gets borderline tiresome. Still, it's hard to fault such a fun movie.

B