Paul Blart: Mall Cop Movie Review by Jaws5
Paul Blart: Mall Cop Movie Review by Jaws5
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Typically, if you see the Happy Madison logo pop up before a movie, it's a guarantee of excessive perversion and washed up celebrity cameos. However, in Paul Blart, Happy Madison decides to go with the family friendly approach and it works, but only to a certain degree.
Blart opens with said character running through the police force obstacle course, and doing pretty darn well too, until he's stopped just short of the finish line by his hypogloxemia (basically he needs sugar or he passes out). We then go to Blart's real life, being a mall cop and gawking at the new wig shop girl. Everything seems to be going normally until Blart's new trainee turns out to be a gang leader of X-games type thugs bent on knocking off the mall's bank. Now Blart must spring into action against all odds to save the day.
I have to admit, Blart does have its funny moments and I have to give kudos to Happy Madison for letting Kevin James work within his element. However, that doesn't mean it works all the time, or even the majority of it. In fact, chances are you have already seen most of the jokes in Paul Blart either from the previews or another movie.
The thing that really killed me about this movie though, is how much Blart's character suffers at the expense of corny jokes. I mean, it's obvious from the movie's opening sequence that Blart is more than capable of being a real police officer. Yet, he gets taken down by an old man in a scooter, runs head on into a glass window, and sticks a Hello Kitty band-aid on a paper cut. Yes, I know it's a comedy and I shouldn't be analyzing it that much but come on...you've got to draw the line somewhere.
For me, Blart is something I wouldn't watch again, but there's definitely worse ways you could spend a couple hours and it's a step in the right direction for Happy Madison Productions.
Buy the Movie Poster for Paul Blart Mall Cop
Typically, if you see the Happy Madison logo pop up before a movie, it's a guarantee of excessive perversion and washed up celebrity cameos. However, in Paul Blart, Happy Madison decides to go with the family friendly approach and it works, but only to a certain degree.
Blart opens with said character running through the police force obstacle course, and doing pretty darn well too, until he's stopped just short of the finish line by his hypogloxemia (basically he needs sugar or he passes out). We then go to Blart's real life, being a mall cop and gawking at the new wig shop girl. Everything seems to be going normally until Blart's new trainee turns out to be a gang leader of X-games type thugs bent on knocking off the mall's bank. Now Blart must spring into action against all odds to save the day.
I have to admit, Blart does have its funny moments and I have to give kudos to Happy Madison for letting Kevin James work within his element. However, that doesn't mean it works all the time, or even the majority of it. In fact, chances are you have already seen most of the jokes in Paul Blart either from the previews or another movie.
The thing that really killed me about this movie though, is how much Blart's character suffers at the expense of corny jokes. I mean, it's obvious from the movie's opening sequence that Blart is more than capable of being a real police officer. Yet, he gets taken down by an old man in a scooter, runs head on into a glass window, and sticks a Hello Kitty band-aid on a paper cut. Yes, I know it's a comedy and I shouldn't be analyzing it that much but come on...you've got to draw the line somewhere.
For me, Blart is something I wouldn't watch again, but there's definitely worse ways you could spend a couple hours and it's a step in the right direction for Happy Madison Productions.
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