Roughly ET meets Superbad, Paul must be the in-jokiest film of the year — its funniest single line is a reference to the incest documentary Capturing the Friedmans. If nothing in that last sentence makes any sense to you, stay well away. Even if it does, the laugh count is topped by any single episode of Spaced, the delightfully geeky suburban sitcom in which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost made their breakthrough.
As a pair of comic-book nerds who stumble across a friendly computer-generated alien (voiced, somehow inevitably, by Seth Rogen) while on a tour of paranormal sites across the US, they fall back on your typical homo-joshing banter (not offensive, just tedious) and persuade a bevy of Hollywood actor chums (Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor) to turn in faintly demeaning cameos. In the beyond-crummy role of a pious trailer-park attendant with an eye malady, Kristen Wiig is such a constant trouper she outcharms them all.
Roughly ET meets Superbad, Paul must be the in-jokiest film of the year — its funniest single line is a reference to the incest documentary Capturing the Friedmans. If nothing in that last sentence makes any sense to you, stay well away. Even if it does, the laugh count is topped by any single episode of Spaced, the delightfully geeky suburban sitcom in which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost made their breakthrough.
ReplyDeleteAs a pair of comic-book nerds who stumble across a friendly computer-generated alien (voiced, somehow inevitably, by Seth Rogen) while on a tour of paranormal sites across the US, they fall back on your typical homo-joshing banter (not offensive, just tedious) and persuade a bevy of Hollywood actor chums (Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor) to turn in faintly demeaning cameos. In the beyond-crummy role of a pious trailer-park attendant with an eye malady, Kristen Wiig is such a constant trouper she outcharms them all.