Paul - Film Review

Paul – Film Review

Welcome along to another People’s Film Review! This time, I’ll be reviewing the new Pegg/Frost smash “Paul.”

The basic outline of the film is that an alien crash landed on Earth in 1947, more specifically on a Dog named “Paul” in Wyoming. For the past 60 years he has been under Government protection, where they have studied him and learnt all about him. Now they have learnt everything they can, the time has come to do further studies, on his brain. As you can imagine, Paul isn’t cool with this, so with the help of an inside man he escapes. Whilst on his travels he bumps into Clive and Graeme (Pegg and Frost), 2 nerds from the UK who are on a trip across America as part of the San Diego Comic-con (incidentally somewhere I would love to go!) The trip couldn’t be going any better for the geeky duo, until their wildest dreams are realised with the discovery of Paul; the foul mouthed alien from a small M class planet. Voiced by Seth Rogen, you can imagine that he won’t be your typical alien! You can see the mannerisms of Rogen in Paul, and you should as the studio used the same technology used to animate Golem in Lord of the Rings. Rogen donned the motion capture suit to bring the alien Paul to life and with that hilarity ensues.

So with their new guest, they set off on a course plotted by Paul who won’t tell them exactly where they are going. As they make their way to the mystery destination, they get themselves into all kinds of trouble, even picking up another reluctant "guest" on the way. Look out for a star studded cast, including Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver (can’t have an alien film without her can you?) and the voice of Steven Spielberg himself! I’m not going to spoil anymore of the happenings from the film, it’s best to go and see it for yourself.

This film will have you laughing for days after, especially some of the one liners from Paul. I will warn you, if you are sensitive to bad language then this is definitely not one for you! Pegg and Frost are truly back on form and once again created a comedy masterpiece.

Paul is out in cinemas across the nation now!

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4 out of 5!