Segway himself into heroism & giving justice to mall! That's Paul Blart! Paul Blart: Mall Cop might be a really dumb movie, but I can't help, finding myself, rewatching this movie, time after time again. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Directed by Steve Carr, and co-written by Kevin James & Nick Bakay, the movie tells the story of mall security guard and single middle age dad, Paul Blart (Kevin James) whom dreams of becoming a member of the local Police squad. Due to his physical limitations and lack of self-esteem, he settle into being a mall security guard, training the new guard like Veck Simms (Keir O'Donnell) to support his daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez). It wasn't until a bank heist at his local mall, that Paul Blart is able to show, how much a hero, he can become. The movie really mirrors the premise of 1988's Die Hard to the point, that it's seems like the movie is stealing ideas rather than making a movie of their own. Both movies, have an average job who doesn't seemed invincible, take on a task that seem way out of his league in a limited location with little to no escape or help. Most of the time, the only reason why Paul Blart or John McClaire survive was due to sheer luck. The twist ending at the airport here, wasn't as good as 1990's Die Hard 2. It's make little to no sense of the plot. This movie sadly, get the Die Hard concept more than the later films of the Die Hard film franchise. It's just that the movie moves in a slow pace, as there are endless amounts of unfunny gags, preventing the movie from reaching its main plot, like Paul Blart fighting a fat woman in Victoria's Secret or Paul Blart getting a tattoo of the Loch Ness Monster in a drunken stupor. It's really tiresome jokes. Most of the jokes were really dumb Keatonesque slapstick humor, and awful fat jokes. What the movie fails to have is really good smart humor. As much as I hate, seeing jokes go to the low comedy route: Kevin James makes the movie, watchable. I love the fact that he plays Paul Blart straight-forward as lovable family man. You can't help, feeling bad for Paul Blart, as he's just affable Average Joe lug head, trying to woo the girl of his dreams, Amy Anderson (Jayma Mays). Their relationship might not be realistic, but you buy into it, just to wish Paul Blart be happy for once. Some people call Kevin James, the new Chris Farley, but I have to disagree. He's the opposite, rather than exploding into extreme mood swings like Farley. Most of Kevin James's humor comes from him, trying to hold it back. This is why, most of his film characters are family-friendly. He's a clumsy family man, trying to do, what's right. He's more like the new John Candy. It's weird that in 2009, audiences would have two comedies about Mall Cops to choose from. You got Seth Rogen's raunchy comedy, Observe and Report and then you got Kevin James's Paul Blart: Mall Map. The main different between them is the level of comedy. Seth Rogen's film went a little too far in dark comedy that's seem nearly unlikeable. While, Paul Blart felt like it didn't go far enough and felt a bit safe. The movie gathers up a PG-13, because of this fact, only having mild violence, a few profanities, and a couple of gross-out gags. Paul Blart: Mall Cop is indeed less crude than previous Adam Sandler productions, but one of the few that were honestly pretty fine. As much as I love the main character, I have mixed results with the supporting cast acting and how their characters are portray. Some are portray as racial stereotypes, while others are just one-dimensional. Comedians Adam Ferrera and Bobby Cannavale plays sympathetic cop, Sergeant Howard and the bullying SWAT team leader, Commander James Kent, great. While, characters like Leon (Jamala Mixon) and Pahud (Adhir Kalyan) comes off as annoying. I couldn't get behind the idea of the cycling, skateboarding X-Games type bank robbers as well. I couldn't really take them, serious as a threat. Most of them were horrible actors. Another fault of the movie could be all the product placements. Knowing Adam Sandler's production films, this was no surprised. Despite receiving mostly mixed reviews, the film went on to become a box office success to the point, that 2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 was made. Overall: If you hate Adam Sandler's production films, you probably not going to enjoy this movie as well. If you do have somewhat of a funny bone. You might find it, funny. It might not be worth buying at the mall, but for a rental. Check it out, if you want to.

Paul Blart (Kevin James) can't get in as a New Jersey State Police for his hypoglycemia. He's a single dad, a super nice guy, and takes his job as a mall security guard seriously. He's infatuated with the really nice Amy (Jayma Mays). When the mall gets taken over by some bad guys, Paul rises to the occasion even if the police doesn't want him to.

This is the blandest of PG humor from Kevin James. It has no bite and neither does his character. This super nice guy doesn't have anything funny. He's mostly sad and pathetic. Sometimes it's almost chuckle worthy but it's mostly snooze ville. The whole mass robbery scenario is just stupid and so is the movie in general. The bad guys are a strange mix of trying too hard to be hard, and hopelessly unweaponized puppies. Why try to be dangerous when the PG humor won't let it go there? It's all wrong.

Kevin James continues his quest to be a leading man in light comedy/action films.

He plays an overweight security guard in a shopping mall with a dream of becoming a cop. Paul Blart is an amiable, likable guy as he patrols the mall in his Segway and hoping to keep his diabetes in check which causes him to suddenly pass out.

Paul Blart is dedicated to his job, he lives with his mum and is a single father. He likes a lady (Amy) who works in the mall but becomes too shy when he is around her.

It just happens that the mall is robbed and Amy and his daughter are held as hostages.

This allows Blart to spring into action using improvised measures (almost Home Alone like) against the gang of robbers. This is also at odds with the advise of the SWAT commander who also happens to be his old high school bully.

The film is wholesome but just too damn predictable. Its light, likable but also lame with Blart acting daft in some inopportune moments.