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[mmcirvin]

We finally saw this via Amazon Unbox on the TiVo. While it doesn't quite rise to the delirious heights of "Shaun of the Dead", it's very funny and well worth seeing.

This time Simon Pegg plays a city cop who is so outrageously excellent at his job that he gets transferred out to the country so he won't make everyone else look bad. What ensues initially seems to be a fish-out-of-water comedy about an uptight, by-the-book cop adjusting to life in the sticks, somewhere in the territory between "Local Hero" and "Life on Mars". When the supercop realizes that not everything in his new home is what it seems, it flips genres a few times, and successfully parodies police procedurals, creepy-rustic-cult horror movies, and, finally and hilariously, hypermacho action extravaganzas. There's a surprising amount of gore, though, again, not as much as in "Shaun".

You know that British comic actor who was in the thing with the guy? He's in this.

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[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

You know that British comic actor who was in the thing with the guy? He's in this.

I hope you intended to make me laugh with this!! Both generally and specifically, as I tried to work out whether you actually meant someone specific (Bill Bailey, perhaps?)

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I meant all of them, but it goes double for Bill Bailey.