Super Fuzz, or as the print used for this DVD calls it, Super Snooper, was a television favorite in the eighties and as such it developed a far larger cult following than it really has any right to. Regardless, it's a fun way to kill an hour and forty-minutes, particularly if you have a taste for buddy comedy or slapstick police high jinks.

A rookie cop named Dave Speed (Terence Hill of They Call Me Trinity) is sent to collect on an overdue parking ticket by paying a visit to an Indian village out in a swampy area of Florida. What he doesn't know is at that moment, the government is testing a red plutonium rocket in the same area, which is why no one is there when Dave arrives. The rocket goes off, Dave gets doused in radiation, and the police force assume he's been killed in the line of duty.

A short while later, Dave shows up on his motorcycle looking just as fit as a fiddle. His partner, Sergeant Willie Dunlop (Ernest Borgnine of The Wild Bunch and Convoy) doesn't believe his eyes at first but it doesn't take the two of them to get back to work and soon they're patrolling the streets of Miami trying to uphold the law. This time, however, things are a little different. Dave starts to know things are going to happen before they physically do, and he seems to have some sort of invulnerability too. He's faster and smarter than he ever was before and he's able to catch bullets in his teeth. Dunlop thinks that his partner is off his rocker when he tells him that he's able to do these things, but Dave is on the up and up – he's got super powers now. Unfortunately for Dave, this is hard for him to prove as they seem to come and go at random.

So Dave, with Dunlops help, starts solving all manner of crimes and soon the pair runs afoul of a sinister counterfeiting operation that is intent on crippling the city's financials by bringing in a huge amount of phony one-dollar bills. Speed and Dunlop know they need to stop these guys but the bad guys aren't going to go down without a fight, and soon Speed will be framed for murder and sitting on death row!

It's hard to believe that the same director who made gritty spaghetti westerns like The Great Silence and Django was behind this goofy slapstick adventure but this wasn't the first time that Sergio Corbucci and Terence Hill had worked together. The pair had made Trinity: Gambling For High Stakes and a couple of years earlier and would work together again on A Friend Is A Treasure with Bud Spencer. Super Fuzz is probably the best or at the very least the best known of their collaborations thanks to a fast paced plot and some genuinely off the wall set pieces. Rather than make Dave Speed a dashing and intelligent hero, like Superman (watch for the scene where Speed is reading a Superman comic) the filmmakers instead chose to make him a bit of a goof, bumbling his way into solving crimes and stopping evil doers rather than going with anything premeditated. Hill's dopey smile and bright-eyed sense of naivety brings his characters dimwitted charm to the movie and pairing him alongside the surly Ernest Borgnine works well as the two play off of each other's comedic abilities effectively.

That's not to say that Super Fuzz is technically good – the soundtrack is insanely repetitive and each and every one of the jokes is completely groan inducing – but it is a whole lot of fun in spite of itself, particularly for those of us who enjoy a good nostalgia rush.

Video:

Super Fuzz is presented in a decent anamorphic 1.85.1 widescreen transfer that appears to be the correct aspect ratio for the movie. Color reproduction is strong and while there is some fluctuations with the black levels print damage never gets out of hand. Some mild grain and the occasional speck does show up on the picture but there's a fairly decent level of both foreground and background detail here. There's a little bit of motion blurring in some spots but other than that, things look surprisingly good here.