Paul (2011)
7/10
Paul is enjoyable and even fun at times , but also unoriginal, uninspired, and full of missed opportunities.
31 August 2013
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are back, this time around they are simultaneously spoofing and celebrating comic-con , alien movies, and American culture in the movie "Paul". They play a pair of British comic-con nerds and aspiring writer/artists named Graeme and Clive, who are attending comic-con and then touring the famous alien/ UFO sites of the American southwest in a Winnebago. Along the way we meet Paul, (voiced perfectly by Seth Rogen) a stranded E.T.-like alien who is on the run from some shady government types played by Jason Bateman, and his 2 bumbling cohorts Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio. Bateman's trademark smarm is unfortunately not on display here as he plays his character rather straight. Hader and lo Trugliodon't get a lot of laughs either. However the character Ruth(played by SNL's Kristen Wig)gets plenty of laughs as the formerly oppressed one-eyed daughter of a fundamentalist Christian father. Sigourney Weaver shows up as well, but her character is pretty unmemorable and another missed opportunity. The plot seems pretty straight forward, and there aren't any real surprises along the way, but there are enough laughs, tongue in cheek references, and sly genre winks to keep the viewer thoroughly entertained.
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