Review of Paul (2011) by Leguru — 17 Apr 2011

This movie is not as bad as I expected. I expected it to be really stupid and to pull in a lot of cheap laughs. But honestly, there weren't that many laughs. The movie was not that funny. I mean, what was good about the movie isn't the humor, but the story and adventure.

However, this is supposed to be a comedy movie, But it's better that there weren't any stupid laughs than had there been. It was not a very Seth Rogen-like film thank God. I'm not a Seth Rogen, I was expecting some pretty stupid stuff.

It was kind of uncomfortable, there were kind of shots at religion, and it sort of made religious people seem stupid, and that hurt a lot, I am a Christian, now that doesn't really affect my views, but it could very well be taken offensive, and it got really uncomfortable.

I didn't really take it seriously, and you really can't be a hard core religious nut to like it. The movie gets a 5 because the humor wasn't really there, and the constant religious strikes were not necessary.

You could've easily cut it out of the movie, and it would've been a much more solid showing. But otherwise, I think Simon Pegg and Nick Frost did a great job in it, they were very good in it. The gay jokes get a little old, but it's abandoned luckily half-way through the movie.