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The Shaun of the Dead boys are back and this time they're lampooning action cop thrillers with the funniest film of the year that writer/star Simon Pegg describes as "Wicker Man meets Lethal Weapon."

Pegg plays top London copper Nick Angel. But he's so good he's making his mates at the Met look bad. Finding himself transferred to a sleepy country nick and with only Frost's cop movie obsessed bumbling PC Butterman for company � "You ever fired two guns while flying through the air?" - his career has hit the skids. But a series of grisly accidents prove all is not what it seems in the idyllic village of Sandford and Angel"s soon on the case vowing to "bust this thing wide open."

Pegg and Frost are joined by: former 007 Timothy Dalton playing the arch villain; Edward 'The Equalizer' Woodard as the head of the cunningly named NWA (Neighbourhood Watch Alliance); comedy legend Bill Bailey as the bumpkin desk sergeant; Office bloke Stephen Merchant (with a runaway swan); Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan and Martin Freeman as a trio of Met top brass; Dead Man's Shoes Paddy Considine as a snide CID officer (If you wanna be a big cop in a small town then fuck off to the model village!); Jim Broadbent and a host of familiar faces from the likes of Peep Show; Adam & Joe and Nighty Night making this a who's who of British comedy. With a line up like that you'll be hoping for laughs aplenty and won't be disappointed. It's Midsomer Murders on crack as a gross-out body count spirals thanks to a double decapitation, an exploding house, collapsing church and a pair of garden shears to the throat. Like Shaun of the Dead slick editing and decent FX make the gags come alive with slow-mo John Woo-style shoot outs, car chases and gunfire galore.

It might be a tad too long but Pegg and Frost make a great double act, going hell for leather as "Crockett and Tubby" tool up a la Commando for an almighty gun-slinging finale that clocks in at 30 minutes. With an 'assault on Somerfield' our heroes take on a gang of irate Uzi wielding villagers while armed to the teeth with rapid fire one liners - Pegg dropkicks a shotgun-wielding Granny while Frost retorts "Ya off the chain man!" Full of cheesy references to buddy cop classics like Bad Boys and scary movie nods to The Shining it's a gun fetishists delight as the slapstick crescendo begs the Keanu Reeves Point Break question, "Have you ever fired your gun in the air and gone aargh!" Watch it and weep.