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Paul (2011)
Paul never really launches - it just doesn't have the substance
The film's Disney-level sensibility and thinly-written characters could have been compensated for by some well written comedy. Could have.
Prepare to be underwhelmed by everything except Jason Bateman who puts in his usual solid performance. Most of the gags fall flat, and the two human male leads are pretty much the same person.
Film makers and stars Nick Frost and Simon Pegg have done some great work, but this time they have spent forty million dollars on mediocrity.
Paul is an alien trying to get home who smokes killer weed, advises Hollywood producers, and converts born again Christians to Darwinism by injecting the full history of Earth's evolution into their minds in an instant. Sounds funny here, right? But Pegg and Frost's lame characters function to take the edge off the humour.
And Seth Rogen as the voice of Paul? Funny guy of course, but even he can't fix such an undercooked movie.
The Darwin Awards (2006)
Darwin Awards dead on arrival.
Lacking in substance and focus, The Darwin Awards is an undercooked concept of a film. Confusing, unnecessary and witless, its slow death surely qualifies for one of the awards it takes its name from.
Fiennes gives a decent performance, although he wanders through most scenes looking uncomfortable, the smell of the screenplay too much to bear. Winona Ryder plays an insurance claims investigator who comes along for the ride. Why? Who cares.
There are bright moments where the re-tellings of death-by-idiocy mini-scenarios the Darwin Awards became famous for are allowed to unfold without the presence of the silly romance sub-plot or mis-cast leads, but these are far to rare.
Watch this movie purely to kill time or see Metallica in an unfortunate cameo, nothing more.