Ever see the Simon Pegg comedy Hot Fuzz. Cause Terribly Happy is the exact version of that only with out all the laughs. Its a danish crime drama about a lone cop getting sent to a small farmland town for a shady past. Once in this town it becomes quickly apparent that not all is what it seems to be. Everything is a little bit to quiet and the locals are extremely unfriendly. Of this type of scenario we've seen a hundreds times before, its part of what Hot Fuzz was making fun of. The problem with Terribly Happy is that while it is competently made in almost every respect, it brings nothing new to this age old formula. Without a fresh take on old material I almost always find myself asking, what's the point.
C-
2010
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