I can't wait to see this one - Timothy Dalton is supposed to be great!

Plus, these guys seem to know how to make a clever, funny movie! Shaun of the Dead was very good, and genuinely funny.

He is fantastic, best performance in the movie :)

Just saw it in San Francisco. It's wondercon weekend and they were giving out flyers to see it. The flyers were your ticket. We were packed into a small lobby for four hours (it started @ 10, we were first in line @ 5ish) it was totally worth it. It was one of those perfect movie experiences when the audience got it, and everyone seemed to have a good time.

Nick Frost stole every scene he was in. The action elements came and went during the first hour than picked up during the second. You really should have watched a lot of bad action flicks to appreciate the second half.

Its late and i'm tired...OH, side note...Tom Waits was wandering around Wondercon...I shook his hand! He was with his wife and son...random i know.

I thought Shaun of the Dead was overrated, but I absolutely cannot wait for this one.

that's great to hear about Nick - got a chance to meet him after the screening of 'Shaun' - not only is a really funny in his tv/film roles, but he's really nice to his fans. Simon Pegg on the other hand was really standoffish

Is this still opening on Friday? That was the original date I've heard, but I haven't really seen many previews.

imdb aint' always correct but they state the 20th of April, in limited release.

Saw this tonight. Great film! Laughed my ass off the entire time.

i actually saw a poster for this at my AMC (very surprised). no date was listed, but that indeed gives me hope it will be there soon.

flick has made over $31m so far in the UK, that bodes well for future installments from the team, woot! (that's about 3x more than Shaun made theatrically).

Just got my free Premiere mag today and they gave it three stars and called it deeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious.

Opens Apr. 20.

I saw it the other day and thought it was pretty funny. I'll definitely want the dvd.

Free screening at The Vic in Chicago in two weeks. Simon Pegg will be in attendance.

I just got this myspace bulletin from Hot Fuzz:

INTERESTED IN HOT FUZZ SCREENINGS?

WASHINGTON DC
Date: Friday, March 23
Details: A screening of Die Hard followed by HOT FUZZ with Q & A
featuring Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: Arlington Cinema N Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington
VA
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Mike Jesson at
[email protected]

BOSTON
Date: Friday, March 16 - Thursday, March 29
Details: HOT FUZZ (3/25) with Q & A to follow featuring Edgar
Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Phyllis Mercurio
at [email protected]

CHICAGO
Date: On Monday, March 26th HOT FUZZ will screen at the AMC River East
followed by Q&A with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Locations: Brew & View theatre, 3145 N. Sheffield in Chicago; AMC
River East, 322 East Illinois, Chicago 60611
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Lara Golubowski
at [email protected]

ATLANTA
Date: Wednesday, March 28
Details: HOT FUZZ with Q & A to follow featuring Edgar Wright,
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Locations: Palace Theatre, 1049 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30306

For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Marci Miller
[email protected]

SAN FRANCISCO
Date: Tuesday, April 3
Details: HOT FUZZ with Q & A featuring Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Locations: Landmark Lumiere Theater, 1572 California Street, San
Francisco; Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinemas, One Embarcadero Center,
San Francisco; Landmark Clay Theater, 2261 Fillmore Street, San
Francisco
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: John Weaver at
[email protected]

DALLAS
Date: Thursday, March 29
Details: A screening of Bad Boys II followed by HOT FUZZ with Q & A to
follow featuring Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: AMC Northpark 15, 8687 N. Central Expressway, Dallas
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Sally Smolenski
at [email protected]

AUSTIN
Date: Saturday, March 31
Details: Screenings of Police Story 2, Freebie & The Bean, Sudden
Impact and Electra Glide In Blue followed by HOT FUZZ with Q & A to
follow featuring Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 409 Colorado Street, Austin
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Lawrence
Wilczewski at [email protected]


SEATTLE
Date: Monday, April 2
Details: A screening of Bullitt followed by HOT FUZZ with Q & A to
follow with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: Landmark Varsity Theater, 4329 University Way N.E., Seattle
For more information or to get tickets, please contact: Amanda Bedell
at [email protected]

NEW YORK
Date: Tuesday, April 10
Details: A screening of Electra Glide in Blue introduced by Edgar
Wright followed by HOT FUZZ with Q & A featuring with Edgar Wright,
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater - 70
Lincoln Center Plaza
For more information or to get tickets, please visit: www.filmlinc.com
<http://www.filmlinc.com/>

Sounds awesome, I'd love to go to one of those.

Why no LA screenings?

Word yo.

These guys make me laugh - I definitely want to see this

For anyone interested in this screening, don't bother contacting Miss Smolenski(that e-mail address is missing a "k" anyway, no fault of Mr. Dobbs); she's given all the passes she had to various promotional partners and AFI Dallas has already sold the rest of the tickets. Try Zeus Comics, which still had a handful of passes(one to a customer, each pass is for two people) as of March 18th.

I guess I know what I'll be doing that Wednesday night!

It's actually the Plaza though:

http://plazaatlanta.com/specialevents.html

Anyone else here going to that one?

I went to the screening in Chicago. Its really funny, very fast paced. The only qualm is the begining is very MTV stylized. No real background on the Nick Angel character. Otherwise pretty entertaining. Much more gruesome that Shaun of The Dead. And I really enjoyed the homage to Bad Boys 2 and Point Break. Also met Simon, he was a cool guy and sorry no plans for anything with Spaced coming up. He did say their next movie is going to be even grander but didn't say what it would be about.

"Shits About To Get Real"

Thanks for the post. I can't wait for Wednesday!

I'll be there! I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Not a big fan of that theater, but I haven't been since the new owners took over.

The first half hour was crap, because nothing happened, but after the first death it really picked up, and I loved it. Some good jokes and sight gags, some great references to Shaun of the Dead in particular, and some shocking gore too (shocking not so much because of the gore, but because I didn't really expect it to be so gruesome from Pegg, Wright and Frost). My major problem with the film, other than the opening, was that the film didn't really seem to know what it was doing - did it want to be a comedy, or an action thriller, or a crime mystery, or all three? Where Shaun of the Dead was a superb rom-zom-com (although while the 'rom' bit was on the tagline you didn't care that it wasn't really exploited in the film because it didn't matter, and could have been its downfall), Hot Fuzz tries to weave together several genres and ultimately fails to really convince you that it's any of them.

Simon Pegg also provides next to no comedy in the film. He's a first-rate straight man in it, but there was comic potential in the character of Nicholas Angel, who instead is simple and two-dimensional. Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Big Train, Asylum and other shows have shown Pegg's comic talent, but it was wasted here.

It also had a slightly unconvincing ending but then, in the words of Pegg and Wright - "when we can't explain something, we put it down to 'popcorn logic'".

One major positive was a car chase between two Vauxhall Astra diesels. As they're both exactly the same spec... it just can't end! Wow!

Worth a watch, but see Shaun of the Dead first to get used to their comedy, and get all the references.

Looking forward to see this film too.