Great movie! I liked it quite as much as Shaun Of The Dead (from which it is very different) except...the title falls flat. Hot Fuzz. It just...it sounds vaguely boring and porny. Kind of...heated, and fuzzy, and bothered, but ultimately just off-puttingly listless and enervated. It sounds like something just lying there, drawing shallow breaths - an overheated house pet, perhaps. It doesn't do the job! In terms of parodying the stereotypical titles of the supercop genre.
HARD FUZZ, it should've been called. Now that nails the ambience! Hard - all those straight-to-ShowTime cheese epics have "Hard" in the title! And "Fuzz" not only captures the copper angle, but when you put the two together - Hard Fuzz - it suggest the stiff-bristle feel of running your hand over a short buzz cut such as your earnest hardcore supercop might sport.
Why oh why did they go with Hot Fuzz? It sounds like "Hot Cops." They're not strippers!
EDIT/UPDATE: Jeez, you'll never believe it. It occurred to me that maybe there was already a film called Hard Fuzz, so that they couldn't use it. I figured I should check that out. I didn't come up with a pre-existing film by that title, but I did discover that Hard Fuzz was one of the titles considered for the film! Was in fact, at one point in its development, the working title of the film! What the PUS!? Why did they change it? It would've been perfect.
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