Review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) by Michael C — 01 Apr 2018

Do you ever watch a movie and pause at one moment and just think to yourself: Why? Why am I watching this? That's how I felt when Paul Blart was lying on the casino floor licking ice cream off of it.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (the first movie) is a harmless comedy that's just a lot of slapstick and goofy humor. In this adventure, Paul Blart and his daughter Maya, now grown up, go to Las Vegas for a convention after his mother gets run over by a bus.

Maya tries to get romantically involved with this dude, but Blart, being the overprotective father he is, disapproves. Meanwhile, this bland heterochromic villain attempts to steal Van Gogh's Sunflowers, which for some reason is at the Wynn.

Oh, yeah, another thing that sucks about this movie is that it seems like an ad for the Wynn. The signage on the hotels, while present throughout Las Vegas, is seen often throughout this movie. While the Wynn is probably is an extravagant place to stay, we don't need that much product placement in this movie.

Plus, if you're spending your money to see this movie, you're probably too young for Vegas anyway. Anyway, the villain's eye color is the most memorable thing about him. What was his name again? So, after that, it's nothing but generic slapstick humor and cliché plot points.

Way too much of the humor depends on Blart's hypoglycemia, which is not particularly funny, especially after its been done before. There's also a scene where he gets his ass kicked by a goose.

There's one where he falls down stairs in a suitcase, and also a lot of jokes involving the use of Blart's Segway. It's just forgettable, generic, and above all, not funny. But what do you really expect? It's a comedy sequel.

The list of good comedy sequels is very short, and this certainly isn't on it.