Shaun of the Dead vs. Hot Fuzz. British comedy

Today I am going to talk about these two films.

Both are directed by Edgard Wright and their main character is played by Simon Pegg, one my favorite British actors. It seems to me that he has much a great sense of comedy.

Shaun of the Dead was the first of both films and mixes horror and romantic comedy.

I always thought that the zombies genre is always better with a humorous style (for example, in my opinion, Planet Terror or Zombieland are zombie’s films which go beyond of their genre, precisely because they include comedy. They have, for me, added value). So I enjoyed that film a lot as well. I have to say that it is not the first time that I have watched it. I watched it before several times but I did not recognized it by its name, since I watched it in Spanish and its name was "Zombies Party". It was a bit confusing because they translate an English title by with another English title :-O

Shaun of the Dead talks is about a zombie plague in London, where Shaun, our main character, is from. He is living facing an existential moment of in his life (his girlfriend is abandoning him because he is boring and he always wants to go to date at the Winchester, a pub of in the city where he and his best friend, Ed, always are).

The best point of this film, for me, is the starting point, where Shaun cannot make out zombies from normal people in London, because their social behavior is basically the same. I think that it could be the same here, in Barcelona: you just need to take a look in the Metro on Monday at 9AM.

Hot Fuzz is a "buddy cop" film (Google says that maybe it is the first British film of this genre) which talks about a police officer, Nicholas Angel, who works very efficiently in London's police department.

He always works so well that his colleagues and even his boss don't want he is him around because they always end up looking a fool (they are jealous of him). So the chief of police sends him to a village called Sandford, in with the aim that of he cannot show off his abilities.

There, he meets his new colleague, Dany Butterman, a very motivated police officer who wants to learn everything from his new buddy.

Finally, life in that village is not so peaceful as expected because there is a conspiracy which Nicholas and Dany have to reveal.

For me, I would not describe both films as hilarious but they both have really good points and I loved watching them.