Paul Blart: Mall Cop
You might know Kevin James as the ‘big-boned’ guy out of sitcoms The King Of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond. This is his first lead movie role - co-produced by Adam Sandler - and it sees him play a bumbling shopping mall security guard with dreams of making the real police force. He gets a chance to prove his worth when a hostage situation involving a criminal gang occurs on his patch – the West Orange Pavilion Mall. Jayma Mays - recognizable from lots of TV shows including Heroes and Ugly Betty - plays the love interest.
200991 minsUSA
Comedy
- Director:
- Steve Carr ('Next Friday', 'Daddy Day Care')
- Writer:
- Kevin JamesNick Bakay
- Cast:
- Kevin JamesKeir O'DonnellJayma Mays
Paul Blart: Mall Cop / Reviews
Total Film
Only a creepy mustache and a complete lack of self-awareness separate Paul Blart’s likeable shlub from Doug Heffernan, the amiable deliveryman James portrayed on sitcom King Of Queens for nine years.
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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."
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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.
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Los Angeles Times
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.
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Hollywood Reporter
Great comics from Jerry Lewis to Peter Sellers have turned pathetic into comedic. But James never seems to able to get beyond pathetic.
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Empire Magazine
Hardly promising but, thanks to James’ winningly gung-ho underdog and the fat-man grace he brings to a pratfall, unexpectedly watchable.
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