Fiona Donnellan writes.
Book, cover, judging…how could you not though, with cheesy tag lines, awful trailers and billboards? The marketing team behind this flick should be shot from an over-sized canon.
Through this simple form of advertising I had this pegged (excuse the obvious pun) as comedic suicide by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Still riding high from the cult success of Shaun of the Dean and to a lesser extent Hot Fuzz, I genuinely thought that after zombies and police officers they’d simply run out of ideas, trying to flog the dead horse left in the wake of Spielberg and Lucas last brush with alien encounters.
But this is no Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; this is good. This is a smart, witty film. With a huge cast of just that; smart, witty people. Seth Rogan steals the show as the voice of Paul, with some amazing one liners, much of which comes across as good old-fashioned comedy improv. Arrested Development’s Jason Bateman plays the perfect bad guy. It would have been nice to see more of Hotrod’s Bill Hadar and I Love You Man’s Joe Lo Truglio as the cops, but you can’t have everything.
All in all Paul is a great movie. Lots of laughs, scares and a well thought out plot line which placeds equal importance on the story, the character development and the witty repertoire between the characters, especially the lead characters Clive and Graeme played by Frost and Pegg.
It’s essentially the story of two English geeks who are obviously the most important thing in each others’ lives bar comic books, traveling across America after Comicon, who discover more then themselves along the way
