It was a fun little movie with the likeable Kevin James doing his best to make you laugh.
There was a sweet aspect to it from the romance to the love between the daughter and the dad.
There was also that ancient theme of the underdog proving his worth.
Amazing what people must expect from a movie like this.
There are two types of people in the world, those who divide people into two types and ........
Exactly.
I didn't watch this expecting "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (original), I didn't watch this expecting some dissertation on man's place in the world. I came home from work, after loading software on various AS400 systems, moving 100 pound servers, and dealing with paperwork all day long, wanting to watch something that was silly and fun.
And this movie delivered in spades.
Amazing that we all expected very little from it and didn't get even that. I thought it was sweet enough, K James is a good comedian, but the movie was not funny or suspense filled. This movie is a four at best but more like a three. It had good points but didn't deliver on the promise of it's preview.
Being disappointed in a movie does not make one a snob.
I've been railing against people coming on IMDB just to say a movie sucks for a long time. I think, if you don't like a movie, speak your peace, and move on. Spamming how you hate a movie in every comment is just annoying and trollish. So this will be my only negative comment for this movie.
This movie was horrendous.
I'm not a snob. I have loved almost every Happy Madison movie. I consider Leslie Nielsen one of the finest actors in American history. I love all kinds of movies, all kinds of comedies, all kinds of low brow humor.
Still, this movie was unwatchable for me.
I made it about 15-20 minutes in and I had to turn it off.
Here's the problems I had with it:
1. No humor. It had a couple moments of slapstick, but they were sooo played down. God.
2. Paper thin love story. I am SICK of this trend where every film has to have the main character meet and fall in love with a girl. That alone is fantastically cliche', which can be ok, but god was it hollow. A lot of people bitch that he was fat, so it would be unrealistic, they are just sad lonely people. What pisses me off is how shallow it is; 'Look a hot chick, guess I gotta marry her.'
These movies never have any character development, the chick is simply good looking, and that's it. She can tolerate the main character, so that makes her wife material. NO. That's not entertaining. Not even romantic. I would have preferred it be more like a romantic comedy or a chick flick than this vapid nonesensical bull.
3. Horrible writing. I know most of these kinds of movies have bad writing, and we overlook that fact. Many of us use this to justify certain crappy aspects of the film "Oh what did you expect, The Shield?" or in other words "Yeah it sucks, that doesn't mean it sucks". I think it does.
After watching Observe and Report, I found it impossible to tolerate this disgusting money ploy. The woman looked just like Anna Faris, seriously. If Observe and Report was ripping off this movie, it was the greatest rip off in history. Every part of Observe and Report that was funny, this movie didn't have. I'm fine with that. I expected this movie to be light hearted, but lightheaded? If this weren't the same story told a thousand times before, maybe it would be worth watching. But there is nothing original. Nothing funny. Nothing brought to the table
4. All the actors phoned this in. Right before I turned this off, all I could say was "Is this it? an entire movie of this guy bumping into things and trying to get a chick?" Was I missing something, or was everyone just mumbling through their "lines"? If everyone in the movie was supposed to be high, it would have made sense. Actual malls are more entertaining. I swear to god, if you just took a camera and went to a mall and interviewed people, it would have character development, more plot, and the people in the movie would be 100 times more excited.
Go on YouTube, look for a camcorder movie with some high school kids, you will get more energy, equal talent, superior creativity.
I had extremely low expectations for this, but even if I hadn't, I would have liked it. It's much better than I expected: a family film with a few laughs and a lot of action.
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what were people expecting with the title paul blart: mall cop
i came home after a terrible mind numbingly boring day at work, didn't feel like thinking, put this in and let my brain turn off for an hour and a half
not all movies have to be serious
it starts with a HOLLA and it ends with a creamsicle
Most people need graphic, expletive laden humor, these days. A movie like this one simply will not register. Me, I can enjoy them all. I knew exactly what I was going to get, with a PG rated, Kevin James comedy. A masterpiece? No. A fun movie? Yes.
End of the world? So what.
I enjoy these PG rated comedies too. I think that Kevin James is the main player in this type of movie at the moment.
shareThank you. I wish all of those who hate everything and
keep chortling that something is the worst movie ever,
would all get a convention together and make a decision as to
what REALLY is the worst movie ever. They should hold it
some place very nice. And never come back.
We were expecting to laugh. Is that too much? People are "snobs" for not liking a movie and not finding it funny?
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