Synopsis
Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
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Cast
- Kevin JamesPaul Blart
- Keir O'DonnellVeck Sims
- Jayma MaysAmy
- Raini RodriguezMaya Blart
- Shirley KnightMom
- Stephen RannazzisiStuart
- Peter GeretyChief Brooks
- Bobby CannavaleCmdr. James Kent
- Adam FerraraSergeant Howard
- Jamal MixonLeon
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It's as slam-bang preposterous as any R-rated comedy you can name. It's just that Paul Blart and the film's other characters don't feel the need to use the f-word as the building block of every sentence. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Done as an all-out battle to the death, this could have been an entertaining mix of "Die Hard" and "The A-Team." - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
The film is completely forgettable, frequently funny and weirdly satisfying in a Jersey Loser Gets Respect kind of way. - 50
Washington Post
Mediocre, unmemorable comedy. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The only real difference between this and the handful of other Happy Madison flicks is that James (executive producer, co-writer, star) has made this Sandleresque movie family-friendly, with very little swearing, no nudity and all the edginess of a "King of Queens" rerun. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Underneath all the cartoonish mall mayhem and silly slapstick lies a comedy that aspires to be the sort of gentle crowd-pleaser John Hughes used to make. - 42
The A.V. Club
James has a sweet, appealing presence, but the dreary, joke-light script and generic direction do him no favors.
