Paul Blart
After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.
Director:
Andy FickmanWriters:
Kevin James, Nick Bakay, 2 more credits »Stars:
Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Eduardo Verástegui |Storyline
After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.
Paul Blart Movie Reviews
This film was lazy and not funny.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is the story of a down-on-his-luck mall cop who is invited to Las Vegas to attend a conference celebrating the best mall cops in the country. While he is there, a high class criminal is planning to steal priceless art located in the same casino that Paul is staying in. This film is quite terrible… just about everything it tries to do falls flat. First off, we have Paul Blart himself. He feels like a knockoff of a knockoff of Jacques Clouseau from the Pink Panther series. When Paul needs to be an oaf, he is, and when he needs to be skilled, he is. There is no consistency in his character. There is a scene early on in the film where he can't hit targets about five feet in front of him, while later he can hit moving targets from twenty feet or more away. There is no consistency, so whenever the good guys win or lose; it is because the writers said that they do and not because they actually would have. The overall plot has no flow either. Instead of letting comedy naturally flow into the plot, the entire movie will stop to try and tell a joke every five minutes just for them to fall flat and drag on, consistently. The first five minutes alone managed to make my opinion of the first movie worse. There are numerous subplots, all of which lead nowhere, are completely irrelevant or feel incredibly forced. I can't stress the word 'forced' enough. Why would Blart be invited to this conference if he hasn't done anything in six years? Why would a villain shoot an empty Segway? Why would Blart put on angel wings while being chased? There are no real explanations that would make sense. Instead of creating unique and fresh jokes, standard jokes that we have seen a hundred times in much better movies are shoved into the plot instead. This makes the movie incredibly predictable. I can't give this movie just a single star because I smiled (not laughed) once or twice and there were one or two shots that I liked; however, avoid this movie at all costs. I never laughed once, the plot was lazy, and the acting was pretty bad.
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