This year, I had given thought to seeing as many award-nominated movies as I could.
Instead, I went to see PAUL BLART: MALL COP.
My first reaction had been to skip it altogether. But Hubby and Little Boy wanted to go see it, and this morning I heard it had come in NUMBER ONE at the Box Office this weekend - so I thought, what the heck, maybe it's kinda funny.
As you probably already know from the movie trailers, Kevin James plays Paul Blart, who is...well, a mall cop. He's a police academy flunky, he's been dumped by his wife, and he lives with his mother and daughter. Oh, and he's hypoglycemic. That's an important recurring fact. He's also infatuated with Amy, a kiosk worker in the mall. The story takes place on Black Friday, when an organized group of robbers take over the mall, with a plan to steal the approximately $3 million in sales receipts on the credit card machines in the mall's stores. As it turns out, they end up with hostages. Since Paul was busy playing video games when the criminals entered the scene, he doesn't realize the mall has been evacuated. Once he realizes whats going on - and that Amy is one of the hostages - he decides he's going to save the day. What follows are a few funny moments and a lot of silly moments.
MALL COP was DIE HARD and HOME ALONE rolled into one film. It pretty much is what it looks like - A silly, predictable movie that you can take the family to.
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