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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Columbia Pictures (Sony)
MPAA RATING: PG for some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language
Starring
Kevin James,
Jayma Mays,
Keir O'Donnell,
Bobby Cannavale,
Stephen Rannazzisi,
and
Shirley Knight
Paul Blart is a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. Though no one else takes his job seriously, Paul considers himself on the front lines of safety. When a heist shuts down the megaplex, Jersey's most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day. (Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Kevin James
Nick Bakay
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Steve Carr
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: January 16, 2009
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's as slam-bang preposterous as any R-rated comedy you can name. It's just that Paul Blart and the film's other characters don't feel the need to use the f-word as the building block of every sentence.
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Although Paul Blart is by no means great cinema, there is amusement to be uncovered as we watch Kevin James bumble his way through actions oh-so-similar to those navigated with more blood, sweat, profanity, and dead bodies than Willis. Too bad there's no "Yippekayay...."
63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
It's fine for kids, though, and it doesn't try too hard.
50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The bad guys just seem like a bunch of X-Games rejects, and Blart's ingenuity proves way more effective than it has any right to be.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
Thanks to a tight script and brisk pacing from director Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care, Dr. Doolittle 2), there's little fat in Mall Cop, save the a yawn-inducing parade of fat-guy jokes.
50
LA Weekly
Luke Y. Thompson
Done as an all-out battle to the death, this could have been an entertaining mix of "Die Hard" and "The A-Team."
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The film is completely forgettable, frequently funny and weirdly satisfying in a Jersey Loser Gets Respect kind of way.
50
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
Mediocre, unmemorable comedy.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols
The only real difference between this and the handful of other Happy Madison flicks is that James (executive producer, co-writer, star) has made this Sandleresque movie family-friendly, with very little swearing, no nudity and all the edginess of a "King of Queens" rerun.
50
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
Underneath all the cartoonish mall mayhem and silly slapstick lies a comedy that aspires to be the sort of gentle crowd-pleaser John Hughes used to make.
42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
James has a sweet, appealing presence, but the dreary, joke-light script and generic direction do him no favors.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Great comics from Jerry Lewis to Peter Sellers have turned pathetic into comedic. But James never seems to able to get beyond pathetic.
40
Variety
Brian Lowry
An almost shockingly amateurish one-note-joke comedy.
40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Perfectly inoffensive and almost entirely unfunny, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is more of a numbing experience than a painful one.
40
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
A tossed-off comedy from Adam Sandler's production company that makes one long for the comparative genius of "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry."
38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The last name Blart may be the funniest thing in the movie, so that's a hint as to just how bad this shopping-center saga can be.
30
Film Threat
Michael Ferraro
Director Steve Carr ("Daddy Day Care") tries nothing new in the world of aesthetics. Should be no surprise considering that any film put out by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions doesn't really need to take any kind of cinematic risk.
30
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
To call this Kevin James comedy fatuous might be misinterpreted as an attack on the star's girth--so how about inane, tepid, lazy, puerile, phony, and unfunny?
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The action sequences are just as ridiculous as the romance parts, but at least James seems comfortable with the pratfalls and gross-out scenarios.
25
TV Guide
Perry Seibert
James plays it safe. And, short of unfunny, safe is the worst thing a comedian can be.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Paul Blart: Mall Cop deserves to be cited for loitering.
12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Looks like something stubbed out in an ashtray.
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