Movie Review: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
It's funny because he's fat.
Photo: Columbia Pictures
It's funny because he's fat. If at any time while you are watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop and on the off-chance people around you are laughing, but you find yourself fidgeting because you don't know what was so funny about the last scene just remember it's because the guy falling down is fat. If that doesn't work tell yourself it's funny because he's fat and he's on a Segway, and if that still doesn't work just remember his last name is Blart. HI-larious! Unfortunately, if you are still left straight-faced it must be because you are above the age of 9-years-old and there isn't much you can do about it because that is the audience this PG-rated cartoony effort is targeting. That's not a bad thing, it's just not my thing.
The cast includes Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Tyler Spindel and Raini Rodriguez. For more information on this film including pictures, trailers and a detailed synopsis choose from the following menu.
Review
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is a Columbia Pictures release, directed by Steve Carr and is rated PG-13 for some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language.
Blart's dedication to his work and his lonely existence — living with his mother and daughter who comes as a result of a mail-order bride who left him — is disrupted when the mall is besieged by a gang of crooks made up of skateboarders, Parkour runners and scary looking dudes out to steal some credit card numbers. Unfortunately they messed up when they kidnapped Blart's love interest, a hair-extension proprietor, along with a few of his other mall buddies.
Blart proceeds to bumble, stumble and rumble his way to victory as he foils the crooks' plan and saves the day in the end. All that's missing is the famous line, "And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids." In this case a meddling fat mall cop, but I think you get my point.
I would lay into this film pretty good if it wasn't for the fact it wasn't made for me. This film washed right over me. I didn't laugh and I didn't cringe. I sat and stared at a movie screen knowing it had to end and once it did I would get up and leave. This is a little kid flick all the way as director Steve Carr has made little tykes his primary audience with previous film such as Are We Done Yet? and Daddy Day Care. This one is no different and simply exists to entertain the little kiddies as a fat man named Blart rolls around on a Segway doing dumb things and you are supposed to laugh as a result of it.
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Haha do you remember when they did that awful viral video to promote this? They tried so hard to fool adults thinking it would have some good humor. I mean viral video? Come annnn budehhh
This movie is hilarious, I was laughing through the entire thing.