Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
The last name Blart may be the funniest thing in the movie, so that's a hint as to just how bad this shopping-center saga can be.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
16 Jan 2009
fresh:
James gives it everything he's got, totally committing to the character and delivering clean comedy which often times is often more difficult than creating just a raunch-fest.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
Once you've seen about the first 20 minutes of the movie, you've got a sense of what all of the jokes were going to be.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
The Black Friday setting suggests that this was meant to be a holiday release, but it's not hard to see why the studio dumped this suckfest in January.