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Genres:
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Action /
Comedy /
Crime /
Family
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Director:
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Steve Carr
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Actors:
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Kevin James,
Jayma Mays,
Jamal Mixon,
Stephen Rannazzisi,
Adhir Kalyan,
Raini Rodriguez,
Gary Valentine,
Mike Vallely,
Keir O'Donnell,
Shirley Knight,
Peter Gerety,
Bobby Cannavale,
Adam Ferrara,
Erick Avari,
Allen Covert
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)110.5
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Plot Summary:
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Paul Blart is a mild-high-hat, compliant derivation man who works as a surveillance safeguard in a Late-model Jersey mall. For years, he has applied to grow a cop, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. In unison day, a unify of organized criminals assign the mall under beleaguerment and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped favourable, and because of his sense of burden, refuses to bequeath. He Non-Standard thusly becomes the police subdivision's eyes on the entrails and attempts to stanch the criminals on his own.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Glen WhippPaul Blart: Mall Cop is as sticky and gooey as a Cinnabon cinnamon roll, a snack the movie's title character has no doubt sampled once or twice over the years during his shift. A high-concept mash-up of Die Hard and Kung Fu Panda, Blart gives sitcom star Kevin James a showcase for broad-comedy pratfalls, providing him 87 minutes to plop, flop and crash into things, highlights of which have been playing nonstop on Nickelodeon for the last two weeks.
The targeted tween audience will lap up James' antics, but for the rest of us, Blart is just empty calories. The genial James has an appealing everyman quality, but the movie, written by James and his "King of Queens" writing partner Nick Bakay and directed by journeyman Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care), too ...
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Brian LowryAfter wisely affixing himself to Will Smith (Hitched) and Adam Sandler (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), Kevin James rides solo in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, an almost shockingly amateurish one-note-joke comedy on which the star also shares writing and producing credit. Seemingly designed to facilitate mall marketing and retail tie-ins, the movie itself has only one consistent strategy -- namely, capitalizing on James' adeptness at hurling his sizable bulk around. It is, pardon the expression, an extremely slim approach, which should yield quickly diminishing returns after a more solid opening than most actual malls are seeing in this economy. Having successfully made the comic-to-actor transition on the sitcom "The King of Queens," James possesses an in...
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