I may have to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop

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I like Kevin James and some of the goofy parts in the trailer look good for a laugh --I’ve been looking forward to it.

22

I love the bit where he slides and then scoots behind the pillar. Cracks me up every time.

23

Ebert has been pretty consistent in his view that a film should be reviewed in context. If they were trying to make a dumb, goofy comedy - did they succeed? And any ratings should be considered only for comparison to other dumb. goofy comedies. But, he’s not reliable to me on comedy. He rather famously didn’t like Raising Arizona. If he like a comedy, I’ll probably like it. If he dislikes it, I’ll get a second opinion.

24

That’s the one I love too!

25

Thirded – 5-year-old’s favorite part of the trailer.

26

Fourthed. Great physical comedy.

27

That’s hilarious. I just moved from Boston and used to go there all the time. For some reason, I like seeing movies that were filmed in familiar places. Is everyone like that? I even watched the world’s worst movie (Grandview USA) which was filmed in the tiny little farm towns near where I grew up.

I know exactly who will see this with me.

28

I am. I’ll even watch crap like Jingle All The Way sometimes just because I lived in Minneapolis when they were filming it. I was actually AT the Mall of America on one of the days they shot there. Arnold is pretty short…

29

Just saw it today with my 12-year-son and his friend. It’s the Citizen Kane of shopping-center law-enforcement comedies! I liked it more than I expected to - some great laughs, and not all of them fat jokes either. There’s an underlying wistful sweetness to the movie that surprised me. I’d give it a solid “B.”

30

We went and saw it last night and I really enjoyed it. I don’t do slapstick/dumb comedy, but this one didn’t have poop or fart jokes, and it was really funny, and I liked it.

31

There was one fart joke near the end, when Blart and the SWAT leader are in the minivan chasing the bad guy and his hostages to the airport. Cough and you’ll miss it, though:

As they’re changing seats, there’s a fart noise and Blart quickly says, “That wasn’t me!”