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Movie: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Review)

Posted By Jeff On January 25, 2009 @ 9:02 am

Steve Carr’s Paul Blart: Mall Cop, starring King of Queens Kevin James and hottie Jayma Mays, comes off as a pretty funny movie in the trailer. Fair warning, it’s not.

The whole idea of this movie is that an overweight failure of a security guard is caught up in an organized crime in the mall and has to stop it on his own. Throw in a crush on a kiosk worker and low blood sugar and you have yourself a movie. Unfortunately, they forgot to include good writing with this story line, which leaves the movie with a hollow half-assed feel to it.

The acting itself really wasn’t that bad, but the characters just didn’t have enough substance to carry the movie. If they weren’t going to give us a hardcore decent fulfilling plot, at least give us some character background or slapstick humor. Given that these are the top two factors needed for a successful movie of these genre, it’s fair to say that the mark was missed on this feature.

All in all, Mall cop seems to fall short of being a comedy as I only found myself with one chuckle the entire course of the movie (which was also in the trailer, go figure). The only real entertaining thing that I found was that on an episode of King of Queens Kevin James was forced to shave his mustache because his wife said he “Looked like a motorcycle cop”. Oh how things repeat themselves.
Final score: 3/10 ‘Buy this from the dollar bin when it shows up at the dirt mall’.

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Tags: Comedy, crime, jayma mays, Keir O'Donnell, kevin james, king of queens, mall cop, Movie, organized, paul blart, Review, steve carr

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Movies / TV

1 Comment to Movie: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Review)

  • Jassar says:

    hi i love this movie and i would like to share some informaion about it in arabic languge see my name link.
    thanks for effort
    regard jasser

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