Paul
Paul is a gentle comedy with some truly creative swearing in it, some really funny scenes, and a barrage of sci-fi references to find lurking in the details. It’s great to see Nick Frost and Simon Pegg back in action together again, although it’s a shame Edgar Wright wasn’t directing as well.
The ‘plot’ is just enough to create a movie-length chase scene, with the two guys meeting an alien, being chased by men in black, and taking a few detours to pick up a fundamentalist Christian and visit small-town America. Paul the alien is pretty much Seth Rogen by way of personality, and he gets some of the best lines in the script.
Unfortunately, the movie is a little bit *too* gentle. Once Frost’s character has a heart-to-heart with Paul, there isn’t any conflict within the group to create an emotional pull. I would have liked to see more to the main relationship than Pegg and Frost’s standard bromance-leaning-towards-homoeroticism jokes, as funny as I find them.
I’d give it 3 stars out of 5 - entertaining, but not a must-see.
