Friday 18 November 2011

Gerry Barnabys Film Review: Paul

Genre:  Comedy Sci-Fi Adventure  contains strong language & sexual references, mild violence

Cert : 15 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: A comic book cover features a green alien woman with three bare breasts and a cover with a male alien having three female breasts. Women wear extremely low-cut blouses that reveal substantial cleavage. A dozen women wear leather and wire bikinis with scarves around the waist, revealing abdomens and substantial cleavage. A woman wears a long robe that reveals substantial cleavage. Several women wear low-cut tops that reveal cleavage or short skirts revealing most of their thighs and legs. We see two men wearing bathrobes and we see one man's large, hairy abdomen. An alien is thin and very short, wearing only knee-length brown shorts.
An alien stands on an RV dashboard, pulls his shorts down and moons the car ahead of him.
A man and a woman kiss briefly three times.
Several men ask an alien if he is going to probe them with fingers or metal probes; the alien says this is a myth and goes on to say his entire race is bisexual. A short alien tells a man that alien penises are larger than those of humans. A woman says "penises" several times. A woman asks a man and an alien if since there is no God, can she curse, drink, and fornicate as much as she wants and they say yes

Violence & Gore: An unseen force knocks an alien onto his back, apparently dead (he is not dead).
An alien revives a bird that died from a windshield impact, and then eats it and coughs up feathers.
The bottom of a flying alien vessel falls onto a dog off screen, we hear a sound and later we hear that the dog died.
Several men chase various vehicles on deserted highways and swerve and shoot out windshields and side windows; no one is hurt.
A man shoots a man through the window of his truck and we later see that the man's Bible stopped the bullet.
A man fires a gun through a window of a house where the gas burner is on, it explodes and the property is in flames (we see the man with a swollen, charred head and face).
Several men point guns at one another and shout throughout the film, but do not shoot.
A man keeps a shotgun at home and shoots it several times at intruders on his property and at an RV on the road; he doesn't hit anyone.
Several men slap one another in the face while shouting strings of profanity, but are unharmed; they often receive blows to the groin without permanent harm.
A woman kicks the groin of a man and he doubles over in pain and shouts.
A man is struck in the groin by a flying object and later by a child kicking him; he doubles over and groans.
An alien shape-shifts several times, becoming invisible, and appears out of nowhere to scare several people.
An alien performs mind melds, via fingers to the head, with half a dozen people; they each faint and two of the people argue with the alien loudly before and after they wake up (about God and evolution).
An alien heals a woman's milky, blind eye after he rubs his hands together and touches it (his eye becomes milky as hers clears and then his clears and she can see); they argue about healing and he ends the argument with a declaration that healing is a natural part of evolution.
A car with a man inside drives off a tall bridge and we see a fireball rise above the railing.


Profanity:  About 46 F-words, 6 sexual references, 45 scatological terms, 30 anatomical terms, 17 mild obscenities, 10 religious profanities, 23 religious exclamations.
Name-calling (idiots, crazy, old, mad, evil, devil, nerds, gay, queer, slobber-knocker, hillbillies, earthman, space man, space babe, space monkey, short round, Peter Parker, hillbillies, God-blathering, MIB, midgets, Hoss, fatboy, rapist.)
24 stereotypical references to Americans, hillbillies, Christians, Native Americans, Darwin and the Theory of Evolution, science fiction fans and writers, the English, French girls, FBI agents and police officers, Republicans, gays, lesbians, trailer park women, women in command positions, extraterrestrials and UFOs, Japanese healers, dwarves


Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A space alien and a woman share a marijuana cigarette around a campfire and drink beer from bottles with two other people (the woman giggles, talks about hallucinations and hunger and then passes out.)
A bar scene features beer bottles on tables and three men drink beer in a trailer park.
A space aliens smokes 3 cigarettes and a man smokes 1 cigarette
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There is an upsetting scene near the end.
The entire film is comedic in effect, however, and not upsetting or scary.
Some Christians may find the film offensive, as Paul proves the theory of God wrong to a Christian.

Story : In 2009, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) are two English comic book nerds and best friends who have travelled to America to attend the annual Comic-Con convention. Afterwards, the two take a road trip in their RV to visit all the sites of major extraterrestrial importance. At one stop, Graeme and Clive visit the Little A'Le'Inn where two hunters confront them, assuming they might be homosexual. In a hurried leave, Clive accidentally reverses the RV into the hunters' truck, leaving a dent. Later, they see headlights racing up behind them and, believing it to be the hunters, they speed off in their RV. Eventually, the vehicle catches up and they realize it's just a car. However, the car suddenly wrecks up right in front of them, and rolls off the highway. When Graeme and Clive investigate the crash, they meet and discover an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) who is in desperate need of their help.Then begin an hilarious journey across country being chased by the shadow government to get Paul back home.


Likes : This film is so funny,the voice of Seth rogen as Paul was complete funny as hell,i was laughing my head off all the way through this film,i don't think Ive seen anything so funny in a long time since your highness, i love this film special the quotes like " hay fuck nuts it probing time" & "fudge nugget watch the road" just before the agent when over the cliff i pissed my self laughing so hard I fell off the chair watching this film, you so have to watch this film. I would like as well great cast especially Sigourney Weaver , Jason Bateman, Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio as agents Haggard and O'Reilly . The movie its self is extremely funny and the script well written , the small alien with voice from Seth Rogen its very real and well made by CGI artists . Obviously the chemistry between Frost and Pegg is great like always ( you know what I'm saying if you remember Shaun of the dead or Hot Fuzz )Rogen as alien is a perfect cast with his IM SMOKING WEED voice and great lines . In summary well made , great cast , funny script what else do you need for Friday night

Dislike : there was nothing wrong with this film.

Overall :It’s rare for a broadly mainstream movie (particularly a comedy) to embrace sci-fi culture so wholeheartedly without making it the butt of the joke –even Fanboys resorted to this tactic on occasion. But with anal probe
jokes that would make ET blush, a CG character that justifies having his name on the poster and the best one-liner about a very loud clock you’ll ever hear, Paul is that rarest of specimens: a genuinely funny geek-friendly comedy.you would be seriously mad to miss this film it will have you cry with laughter its that funny.


 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars for entertainment,10 out of 10 for seriously funny film




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