In Columbia Pictures' comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James stars as the title character, a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. It's a job he takes very seriously, though no one else does. When Santa's helpers at the mall stage a coup, shutting down the megaplex and taking hostages (Paul's daughter and sweetheart among them), Jersey's most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.
Special Agent Matti
Paul Blart: Mall Cop would be more accurately titled Paul Blart: fat loser but since this movie was made in the land of unrealistic dreams, you'll have to stick with the original. Fortunately, I don't. This piece of Happy Madison popcorn is about a fat loser in a loser job who gets the thin girl, catches the criminals and becomes a hero. In a sense, it's porn for obese couch potatoes in dead-end jobs: this is never going to happen so they have to pay other people to pretend it does. There are a couple of laughs.
The action, crime, comedy movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop is directed by Steve Carr and stars Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Peter Gerety.
PG (Mild violence and coarse language)
91 minutes (1:31 hours)
Film: 19 March 2009
