Paul
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, (voice of) Seth Rogen
Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Plot: Two British comic-book geeks (Pegg and Frost) travel to the U.S., start with comic-con and then encounter an alien outside Area 51.
Who’S It For? If you loved Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Superbad, you need to lower your expectations a little. It’s filthy talk that makes this R. For the most part, it feels like basic laughs from professionals who know what they are doing.
Expectations: Great team of people that I will always see made this movie.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Simon Pegg as Graeme Willy: Graeme apparently wants love. We eventually learn this. Otherwise, he seems the same as Clive. The sloppy red hair and slight belly makes Pegg more Ricky Gervais (the old one) than usual. The...
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, (voice of) Seth Rogen
Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Plot: Two British comic-book geeks (Pegg and Frost) travel to the U.S., start with comic-con and then encounter an alien outside Area 51.
Who’S It For? If you loved Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Superbad, you need to lower your expectations a little. It’s filthy talk that makes this R. For the most part, it feels like basic laughs from professionals who know what they are doing.
Expectations: Great team of people that I will always see made this movie.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Simon Pegg as Graeme Willy: Graeme apparently wants love. We eventually learn this. Otherwise, he seems the same as Clive. The sloppy red hair and slight belly makes Pegg more Ricky Gervais (the old one) than usual. The...
- 3/18/2011
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
The Paul soundtrack. If the baffling commercial failure of Edgar Wright’s brilliant and prescient Scott Pilgrim vs The World still leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, it is your duty to see Paul in the cinema, to ensure that Wright’s creative brothers Pegg and Frost have a box office success to trade on when it comes time to raise funds for their next comedic masterpiece. Wright took a big risk by taking on a big budget Hollywood project, and he did a super-human job, his tongue-in-cheek kinetic brio and dazzling visual style culminating in one of the most entertaining comedies this reviewer has ever seen, a work of comic wonder that speaks directly, honestly and thrillingly to a generation that came of age in the MTV era.
For their own (relatively) big budget Hollywood comedy, co-stars and co-writers Pegg and Frost have gone in the opposite direction...
For their own (relatively) big budget Hollywood comedy, co-stars and co-writers Pegg and Frost have gone in the opposite direction...
- 3/4/2011
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
This idiosyncratic film essay culled from Michael Almereyda's home-movies has a quiet, compelling force about it, writes Andrew Pulver
Michael Almereyda is the pioneering experimental film-maker who got into video years ahead of anyone else with 1992's Another Girl Another Planet, and who briefly went mainstream with the Ethan Hawke Hamlet. Here, he is back in his comfort zone: an elusive but oddly compelling assemblage of home-movie footage, cut together in chunks separated by a couple of seconds of blank black screen, and presented with no authorial annotation other than the title. Pretty soon you get the idea: these are scraps of ordinary life, as lived across the globe, that indicate in their own non-dramatic way, some epiphanic revelation about quotidian existence. (Almereyda recently filmed photographer William Eggleston at work; someone who presumably would have sympathy with his theme.) So we see a kid falling into a pool at an Iranian shrine,...
Michael Almereyda is the pioneering experimental film-maker who got into video years ahead of anyone else with 1992's Another Girl Another Planet, and who briefly went mainstream with the Ethan Hawke Hamlet. Here, he is back in his comfort zone: an elusive but oddly compelling assemblage of home-movie footage, cut together in chunks separated by a couple of seconds of blank black screen, and presented with no authorial annotation other than the title. Pretty soon you get the idea: these are scraps of ordinary life, as lived across the globe, that indicate in their own non-dramatic way, some epiphanic revelation about quotidian existence. (Almereyda recently filmed photographer William Eggleston at work; someone who presumably would have sympathy with his theme.) So we see a kid falling into a pool at an Iranian shrine,...
- 5/20/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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