Film Review: Paul

This movie is awesome. Seriously. It's hilarious. Go see it. Just do it- you'll like it. Trust me.

Paul is funnier than a mother-fucking titty-sucking two-balled bitch. (Will make more sense after you've seen it.)

Paul is the newest entry from the always funny British comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, among others....). They star as a couple of sci-fi fan geeks from England on holiday in America to attend the San Diego Comic-Con, and then take a road trip tour of alien 'hot-spots', ie Area 51, Roswell, etc, who just so happen to meet up with an actual alien (in the form of a superbly well-done CGI character, voiced by Seth Rogan....who, by the way, one of my lesbian ex-girlfriends has an inexplicable crush on- Seth Rogan, not the CGI alien, although I'd actually find that slightly less mystifying....Paul's not my "type", but I've always been a big admirer of the multi-colored alien babe conquests of James T. Kirk, lol)....

They end up going on a journey/road trip/ rescue quest, joined along the way by Kristen Wiig, in a role so funny I'm still laughing thinking about it, and pursued by Jason Bateman as a "Men In Black"-esque type government agent. There are tons of other great smaller roles and cameos, which I wont give spoilers on, except to say that the movie does have the ALWAYS superb Jane Lynch in it (for you fans of Glee, or The L Word, or any other of the many fabulous things she's done).

One thing (not quite a warning): The movie does contain some homophobic slurs and dialogue, however, only the characters who are portrayed as stupid and/or evil use that language, and they are all terribly punished by the plot in the form of bad things happening to them. To me, as much as I hate to hear that kind of language, it was actually nice to see the turn-about- to see homophobia used as a synonym for idiocy, odiousness, and evil, and to have the homophobes be the ones to get their comeuppance in the end.
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I recently heard a "reviewer" ( I use that term loosely) give a bad review to Paul, complaining that it "shoved atheism into people's faces" or some such nonsense (it doesn't, by the way), to which I say: Fuck you, Dickmilk! I've seen so many movies and shows (even good ones) where it's casually portrayed as warm and fuzzy when nonbelievers "regain" their belief in "god" at the end....this movie's take on the subject was quite refreshing.....but really, that's beside the point: It's a comedy, and as such it lives or dies by whether it's funny, and it is a laugh-out-loud hilarity-fest.....Not just me, but both friends I went with, and the two different audiences I saw it in, in different theaters- everybody laughed out loud consistently through-out the whole movie.

Final ranking for Paul? 5 stars! :-D