Why Hot Fuzz Is The Best Of Edgar Wright's Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy

Released in 2007, Hot Fuzz took everything that made Shaun of the Dead successful and ramped it up. Starring Pegg as London Metropolitan Police Constable Nicholas Angel, the movie follows Angel as he is sent off to a tiny town by his jealous coworkers. The town of Sanford, Gloucestershire is continuously voted "Village of the Year," so Angel doesn't expect much action. Soon he meets bumbling Police Constable Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who loves action movies and is eager to learn from Angel. Although he doesn't like the young man at first, the two quickly develop a close friendship as they solve a murder conspiracy.

Thanks to Wright's writing, Hot Fuzz succeeds as a tight action parody, but manages to be extremely original at the same time. Coming after a movie like Shaun of the Dead is a daunting task, but miraculously, Wright managed to beat himself at his own game. In Hot Fuzz, the focus is on the surprisingly emotional friendship between Angel and Danny. Compared to the other two films, the main characters of Hot Fuzz are arguably the most developed out of all the trilogy characters, as the movie becomes an honest character study of Pegg's Angel. 

Relating to this, Hot Fuzz also manages to be the most grounded movie of the three, and although it's safe to say that it has many unrealistic elements, it doesn't revolve around supernatural plotlines like Shaun of the Dead and The World's End.