Paul Blart Mall Cop 1
A single father Paul Blart who works at a mall and suffers from fatness that prevents him from being a police officer, but incidents come to inspire him, after working in a mall, where he falls in love with her, as when the mall is attacked, he does his best, in order to save her, the thing that changes his life.
17 May 1940, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
2 February 1966, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
April 25, 2011
James is much better than a lot of his contemporaries at this, eschewing over-the-top clowning for actual humanity. But it all gets thrown out the window in the second half. Maybe he'll do better next time.
April 15, 2010
Doesn't offer anything new but it is an ample addition to the comedy genre, and after a mostly rip-roaring 91 minutes, you'll understand how the film did so well in America.
February 03, 2011
Shoot me now!
July 30, 2009
Unfunny, unoriginal and tedious - Mall Cop is successful only at living up to the standard set by past films that have begun with the words 'A Happy Madison Production'.
January 20, 2009
Once you've seen about the first 20 minutes of the movie, you've got a sense of what all of the jokes were going to be.
May 06, 2011
In places the plot sags a bit and some jokes don't quite hit their mark or tickle the funny bone as much as they're obviously meant to.
July 14, 2011
Save for its dalliance with the everyman action movie, there's no surprises in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, another largely listless comedy from Sandler's Happy Madison production company.
January 20, 2009
This isn't brain surgery; this is daffy entertainment that plays to its strengths, with director Steve Carr trusting in James' deadpan earnesty
April 04, 2011
Neither good enough to to really cheer for nor bad enough to really care about trashing it, it exists in that room-temperature middle where nothing feels like it matters.
November 18, 2011
Unmemorable, unfunny and unoriginal.
July 31, 2009
...a hopelessly underwhelming comedy...
