Hot Fuzz DVD, HD DVD
June 12, 2007

I was disappointed to miss this in theaters. The trailer looked hilarious. But now Universal is bringing out Hot Fuzz -- a British cop spoof with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg -- on July 31 (prebook June 26). Here's what Variety thought of it.

The movie made $22.3 million in theaters but got a very healthy 89% on Rotten Tomatoes Critics Tomatometer and 96% from users!

Universal has priced the DVD at $29.98 (anamorphic widescreen or fullscreen versions) and at $39.98 for the HD DVD/DVD Combo.

It looks like the standard-def DVD is minus any bonus features, but the high-def version is loaded (guess what Universal is trying to push). Here's the list:

• Outtakes
• Theatrical Trailers
• The Man Who Would Be Fuzz - Simon and Nick play a scene as Sean Connery and Michael Caine
• Hot Funk - Montage of clips using the "clean" dialogue from the TV and airline version of the film
• Danny's Notebook: The Other Side
• Audio Commentary with Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
• Audio Commentary with The Sanford Police Service - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon & Olivia Colman
• Audio Commenary with The Sandford Village People - Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman & Edward Woodward
• Audio Commentary with The Real Fuzz - Andy Leafe & Nick Eckland
• Fuzz-O-Meter - Trivia Track
• Storyboards
• Inadmissible: Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker Commentary
• Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz - Making of Documentary
• Speculative: Video Blogs
• Art Department
• Friends & Family
• Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos
• Here Come the Fuzz
• Return to Sandford - A return trip to Wells, the town that posed as Sandford in the film, coinciding with a premiere of the film for the townsfolk
• Edgar & Simon's Flip Chart - This piece shows them reading a flip chart after the event to see just how much of the chart made it into the film
• Simon Muggs - Compilation of Simon Pegg hamming it up after each take
• Sergeant Fisher's Perfect Sunday
• Photographic: Galleries
• Hearsay: Plot Holes and Comparisons
• Special Effects: Before and After - A before and after look at the film's special effects scenes
• AM Blam: Making Dead Right
• Dead Right (1993) - An edited version of Dead Right, one of Edgar's early films and on which Hot Fuzz is very loosely based. Commentaries: (1) Edgar Wright, (2) Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Posted by Samantha Clark on June 12, 2007 | Comments (2)