Paul: Alien on Board

Even the poster can tell you what the movie is all about. Heck, the more it seems familiar the lesser it seems to get attention. This is not true when you see Paul's comical yet brilliant act, which is very strange for an extraterrestrial alien. Hence, it's reasonable to say somehow, the film deserves a positive review.

Meet Paul Not the Saint

Greame (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) an English best friends who traveled to America to attend Comics Con and took a road trip to visit all known extraterrestrial place. Until they meet Paul an alien who escaped from The Big Guy's (Sigourney Weave) men who wanted his supernatural abilities. Along the road they had to keep a half blind woman, Ruth (Kristen Wiig), with them. It turned out to be more intense as they went to help Paul in getting back to his planet with space ship.


Brilliant yet comical

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were really good as tandem. Actually, they were equally decent and hilarious in Shaun of the Dead. They delivered script that it looks more natural than usual. They could possibly bring the whole scene without Paul. But then again Paul mainly made up fascinating scenes which was certainly brought the house down.

It's crazy to see alien who's able to dance, to smoke to curse and makes jokes. Speaking of curse, everyone may not be happy with it. It's awkward to crack too much curse to something for us to laugh. Self mocking and sarcasm were much appreciated and more laughable. Definitely meant no harm.

On the other side, it's hard to internalize the "shaking of faith" when there were jokes around. But it doesn't mean there's lacking in putting out beliefs. The light mood was just catching more our attention rather than those deep core underlying ideas about science and fiction.

Inspired by copying

Well, if you notice the whole picture, its like seeing another movie. Its not huge like those of Spielberg's but that's not how the film wanted to deliver. It showed how really curiosity kills the cat. The effect was tremendous and was overrated.

Comments

  1. The BritchizJuly 21, 2011 at 6:33 AM

    Nice write-up! I still need to see this since I've always enjoyed Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead. I'll be sure to check back and look through the rest of your reviews. =)

    P.S. For general randomness ;): http://fuzzybritchiz.blogspot.com/

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  2. JaiconRuedasJuly 21, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    I enjoyed either with these actors. I haven't yet seen Hot Fuzz though. By the way, thank you so much for the compliment. I'll be more inspired to write more reviews.

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