I’m a big…if not huge fan of Kevin James from ‘King of Queens’ fame. Since the end of my favorite TV series ever, James has gone on to make movies with some hit or miss roles. I gotta admit he made it big with Will Smith in the movie Hitch…although I liked the movie ‘I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry’ with Adam Sandler, I’m sure many thought it sucked.
That brings me to this film ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop.’ I’ll say this: “Love ya Kevin James but this movie stunk!”
Produced by Happy Madison productions aka Adam Sandler’s production company so you knew that a lot of the same guys in most of Adam Sandler’s movies were going to make some appearances which they did. I’m a big fan of Sandler’s too so I didn’t mind it too much.
The film was obviously about a guy (Paul Blart) who is a single father living with his mother and daughter. He had aspirations of being a real cop and was breezing through the police academy right until he approached the finish line where his blood sugar drops and he passes out. Hypoglycemia has been his downfall where he just shuts down and falls to sleep without some kind of sugar boost…so he’s pretty much unable to do anything productive for a long period of time and ends up being a mall security guard that rides a Segway.
Yea…not much for plot line but it’s a comedy with many dry parts.
Picture this: A mall security guard labeled a failure in every way, married an illegal immigrant who gave birth to a girl to get papers from him, and then deserted both Blart and the daughter. Ouch. Blart does take an interest to this chick (Amy) that runs a ‘hair extension kiosk’ in the mall but really has no chance. He ends up screwing it up real bad when he mistakes some margaritas for lemonade during a nacho eating contest and gets drunk off his ass. Funny part was the dude singing karoake played by Kevin James’ real brother Gary Valentine…he was bald and singing badly to some 80s tunes.
Blart has an opportunity to be the hero when the mall gets hijacked during the holidays by a bunch of skateboarding thugs led by that quirky dude that played the son(Keir O’Donnell) of Christopher Walken in ‘Wedding Crashers.’ Accident prone and sugar deprived, Blart assumes the role of Kevin McCalister in ‘Home Alone’ and protects his mall.
It’s really corny and not enough funny parts for me. Adam Sandler type movies always gets me with the music choice…yea I’m also a huge 1980s music nut so yea I was singing along during the guitar hero part. I’m still a huge Kevin James fan but expected more…with that said I really had to take an unbiased approach to make the rating.
Sponge Rating: 4/10 Sponges
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