This is going to be short.
This is a serious example for once-quite-talented-writers-and-actors-gone-out-of-ideas. Paul is a very predictable, painfully boring and really unfunny movie. I understand there is people out there who buy the same story over and over again if it's coated with a new wrapper, but i see not even a good story recycled. In fact I am a fan of the duo Pegg/Frost - I thought this film would blow some fresh air into the quite tired generic sci-fi-genre nowadays. Unfortunately it didn't...
This is just a montage of gags mostly based on Star Wars (again), the side-story of Paul (yes, it's a side-story) is Paul himself, an alien needing humans to get from A to B. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are those humans privileged to accompany this cool cynical 50-year-old comedy show host disguised as an alien that has some cool abilities. That said, Paul doesn't bring much alien features, except for looking like the stereotypical drawing that we all know.
Already as the story starts unfolding you assume what's going to happen - et voila, it happens (again). The dramaturgic strings are poorly written, the content aspects appear like the writers had a checkbook ticking off each single point, the story itself is very generic as there is nothing whatsoever new in this. Pegg and Frost are also just not really convincing as Sci-Fi-nerds and the humor is just so predictable, it hardly ever becomes surprising or funny. Maybe this is a trend reflecting US-American slapstick in its declining phase in the late 1990'ies - films became very "uninspired" at that point. Let's just forget about this one and give Pegg and Frost another chance, after what they've created in the past they deserve it.
This is a serious example for once-quite-talented-writers-and-actors-gone-out-of-ideas. Paul is a very predictable, painfully boring and really unfunny movie. I understand there is people out there who buy the same story over and over again if it's coated with a new wrapper, but i see not even a good story recycled. In fact I am a fan of the duo Pegg/Frost - I thought this film would blow some fresh air into the quite tired generic sci-fi-genre nowadays. Unfortunately it didn't...
This is just a montage of gags mostly based on Star Wars (again), the side-story of Paul (yes, it's a side-story) is Paul himself, an alien needing humans to get from A to B. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are those humans privileged to accompany this cool cynical 50-year-old comedy show host disguised as an alien that has some cool abilities. That said, Paul doesn't bring much alien features, except for looking like the stereotypical drawing that we all know.
Already as the story starts unfolding you assume what's going to happen - et voila, it happens (again). The dramaturgic strings are poorly written, the content aspects appear like the writers had a checkbook ticking off each single point, the story itself is very generic as there is nothing whatsoever new in this. Pegg and Frost are also just not really convincing as Sci-Fi-nerds and the humor is just so predictable, it hardly ever becomes surprising or funny. Maybe this is a trend reflecting US-American slapstick in its declining phase in the late 1990'ies - films became very "uninspired" at that point. Let's just forget about this one and give Pegg and Frost another chance, after what they've created in the past they deserve it.