POA Reviews: Paul

By: Chelsea Hancock

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost unite again in Paul, a sci-fi comedy that follows two hard-core nerds from London quirky Graeme Willy and skeptical Clive Gollings that accidently meet vulgar and weed loving Paul voiced by Seth Rogan.

The journey continues when the gang meet Graeme’s love interest Ruth Buggs played by the adorably innocent Kristin Wiig. The movie is hilarious and jam-packed with some of my all time favorite comedic actors such as Jason Bateman, Bill Hadar, Kristin Wiig, Sigourney Weaver, Jane Lynch and the way under-rated but talented Joe Lo Truglio. They all work well together.

I felt like I was watching a movie where all of the actors were best friends both on and off the screen. The twist with the movie is that Paul is a rather crass alien that does the unexpected and should be thanked for creating much of our pop culture with regards to “the unexplained.”

Graeme, Clive and Ruth do everything they can to protect Paul from the secret agents that want to cut open Paul’s brain for experimentation. Soon the boring and calm characters that Clive, Graeme and Ruth once were suddenly become entangled in action, adventure and “firsts”. For example, in the movie Ruth Buggs was a bible-thumping girl that just starts to indulge in cursing for the first time and Wiig nails that role!

There were lots of inside jokes and references to sci-fi pop culture that some audience members didn’t get, but I did and it definitely added more depth to the characters and to the movie as a whole. If you like comedy, famous comedians, aliens and respect the sort of Comic Con/Sci-Fi universe than you’ll love this movie! It’s worth the price of admission and then some!

By: Emily McKinney

I love Seth Rogan, I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and I loved "Paul". It was pretty funny and very entertaining. It was realistic enough to have it make sense, but unrealistic enough to allow room for comedy. Paul was a believable, likable character, and Seth Rogan did a great job acting the part of an alien. This movie was different enough from every other Judd Apatow movie that the change was nice, yet it still kept the same kind of humor, making it Judd Apatow/Seth Rogan worthy. Kristen Wiig really brought the humor in this movie. She played her character perfectly. She didn't take away from the main plot and added the right amount of comedy. It was a cute, feel good movie, that also happened to be hilarious. I would say it was definitely worth the price of admission.