Paul

Paul

By: Nicolette Karter

        This was really funny. Yes stupid at times, but overall it was less stupid & more funny than I thought it would be before watching it. Not to mention everyone in it is hilarious

First off, I love Seth Rogen’s voice & he did the voiceover work for the CGI alien, named Paul. He meets these two British tourists (Simon Pegg & Nick Frost) visiting America for Comic-con & a supernatural-infested road trip (with stops like Area 51, a spaceship landing site, etc…). So when they meet Paul (after one of the guys fainted), they hit it off & agreed to help the alien go home.

On the way, they encounter Kristen Wiig’s religious Ruth, who gets healed & educated by Paul after kind of being taken by the British duo. As the funny gang head to where Paul can hitch a ride back home, they have to run from Jason Bateman (playing Agent Zoil), who leads the charge of Bill Hader (Haggard) & Joe Lo Truglio (O’Rielly) whose jobs it is to chase down & catch the fugitive alien (he escaped where the government was doing tests on him, which is frowned upon). Not to mention Ruth’s uber-religious & dedicated father who doesn’t like the fact that his daughter was corrupted & stolen by an alien. So they are having a wonderful day.

        Despite some obstacles, they have a good time & entertain the audience in the meantime. Seth Rogen isn’t known for his clean, family-friendly humor, so expect the same type of jokes as Knocked Up, with vulgar language, and hilarity that will make you blush if you laugh then remember your mom or little brother or a stranger is right next to you. And although they only just met, everyone becomes really close friends, which leads me to a tangent:

I know there are time constraints with movies, & realistically, if I were to be in a running-from-the-government-to-save-an-enlightening-yet-also-blush-inducing-alien-in-what-could-(and does)-turn-into-life-threatening-scenarios, I would probably make friends pretty quick, but in almost every movie that has situations like this, people all end up friends. Even if they weren’t instantly buddy-buddy, by the end of the film, most people will owe each other their lives, or at the very least a “thank you”. Not that I’m saying people shouldn’t be friends, and it makes sense that you would understand each other in circumstances that require people to show their true colors more than an average meeting for coffee type of day. I just don’t like how in most movies like this, people becomes best friends so quickly & easily, especially when there isn’t a lot of friction (and even more so when opposites-like a “Jesus Rules” lady & and alien-are suddenly thrust together. I’ll (somehow) talk more about it in my The Avengers review. But I digress.

So, there are several car chases (although Paul & Co. were in an RV, so I’m not sure if that counts as a car chase or not, but whatever) and jokes along the way, but the group still ends up at Paul’s crash site. Unfortunately, the people chasing them also get to the same place, and this is where the climax of the movie happens. And, despite any & all touching moments, it still ends on a funny note. I like how it shows the hilarious, spot-on awkwardness of the situation that happens right after the climax (sorry for the illiteracy, I jut don’t want to give anything away.)

Well, unless you hate probing jokes, I would recommend you watch this movie, because it’s really funny. What did those of you who watched it think? And, off-topic, please tell me what movie you would like for me to review next. I’d be more than happy to do that/them for you.