Paul
DVD - 2011
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Add a QuoteAgent Zoil: Pleasure to meet you boys. You did a hell of a job.
Clive Gollings: Thank you, Agent Zoil.
Agent Zoil: Please call me Lorenzo.
Clive Gollings, Graeme Willy: Lorenzo Zoil?
Ruth Buggs: So everything that I have been told my whole life, is just a big fat lie? Do you know how that feels?
Graeme Willy: Look. Just because your truth, isn't the true truth, doesn't mean there is no truth, Ruth.
Ruth Buggs: That's easy for you to say.
Graeme Willy: It's really not.
Graeme Willy: How come I can understand you? Are you using some neural language router?
Paul: Actually I'm speaking English you f**king idiot!
Clive Gollings: They're going to rape us and break our arms!
Graeme Willy: I don't want my arms broken.
Graeme Willy: Whats the matter Clive?
Clive Gollings: There is an alien in the kitchen making bagels and coffee.
Graeme Willy: Did you want tea?
Clive Gollings: No, I don't want tea!
Graeme Willy: Right, because tea is weird in America.
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DanniOcean
Dec 22, 2011
Violence: a bit of gore, some blood spatters, an animal has a spaceship crash on it (all with comic tone, not cruel)
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DanniOcean
Dec 22, 2011
In other hands, this charming comedy spoof of all things Alien might have resembled a hackneyed episode of the X-Files. But since that was already done by, well, the last X-Files movie, the British duo that brought us the zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead decided to take another tack. Or Trek, as the case may be. Instead, this is a great buddy road-trip adventure, in the same vein as the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope Road movies, with swearing instead of the singing. The DVD contains both the R-rated theatrical release and the unrated version – there is little difference between the two but the unrated has some unedited scenes and a bit more potty-mouth (especially when Kristin Wiig enters the picture).
Pegg and Frost play Graeme and Clive, two sci-fi geeks who have gone on holiday to the US to attend Comic-con and travel the Extraterrestrial Highway of the South West (it is real, you can Google it). They plan to take in all the sites – Area 51, the Black Mail Box, etc – but their plans are literally sideswiped when they have their own close encounter with Paul, a smart-alec, bird-eating, slacker of an alien who is on the run from the Feds; one of whom is played by the tightly-lipped and droll Jason Bateman. Over 300 animators brought the CG alien to near-life, and Seth Rogen gives him voice with heavy doses of sarcasm and swearing. There are homages to every sci-fi flick you can imagine but only a true aficionado will be likely to pick up on them all unless one listens to the DVD commentary on the theatrical version. There are as many celebrity cameos as there are sci-fi winks (that really is Stephen Spielberg’s voice), and the soundtrack by David Arnold takes you from a gentle cross-country landscape to suspenseful to zany in nanoseconds. There is profanity, some gore, and a lot of crudeness, but Paul is a funny little grey man, and Pegg and Frost are masters of understated comedy. I do not know how I missed seeing this at the theatre; it must be the ultimate sleeper movie hit of 2011. And I’m sorry if you liked the X-Files, but apparently Agent Mulder was Paul’s idea…
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Add a CommentPaul is an over the top and out there alien who has been living on Earth for the past 60 years after crashing and being taken away by a secret military base. He decides enough is enough and escapes with two comic-book loving nerds and an accidental kidnapee. The movie combines humour, science-fiction, and adventure all into one in this brilliantly performed (and mildly provocative) film. The movie was easy to follow along with and in my opinion, had a very good pace. I would rate this movie 4.5/5 stars and recommend it to those who are fans of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. @The_Reviewer of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library
Good movie enjoyed it!
Good movie, lots of respect paid to other alien movies!
Not bad, I guess it was a parody of sci-fi/comic scene which I don't really know about. Good casting and dialogue, plot was a little eh and some of chase seems seem to drag on/redundant
Definitely good for a laugh, but it's a pity we can't make a movie these days without some kind of poor language.
kind of fun-a little juvenile - I could have done with less of the potty-mouth stuff. But ti was cute and had some really funny moments
best movie iv seen in a long time
This was a hilarious film! It's profane so if you've got a thing about curse words and such, better stay away. But this is the funniest version of ET imaginable -- and it even has Kristin Wiig in it!
I just loved it! (In case you're thinking that this kid of "vulgar" sci-fi flick is just for youngsters, I'm 72 years old.)
Rated 2/10.
"lots of reference to classic sci-fi" thats right ctharri...Did you catch the music being played when they went into that bar 3/4s of the way thru the movie? How about the movie marquee went they are in the town where they went into the bar? I thought it had some funny minutes,but my wife did not. I'm immature, I guess. Lots of "tongue in cheek" stuff.