Paul 2011

The two silly actors from 2003's "Shaun of the Dead" are back in town!"Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) are a couple of British comic fans who've just attended their first San Diego Comic-Con International convention, and are now on a road trip through the American Southwest (which they refer to as the Midwest, but then after all, they're not from here) in a rented RV, hitting such myth-enhances spots as Area 51 in Nevada, and Roswell, New Mexico.Near Area 51, a car crashes in front of them, and who should emerge but a stereotypical green, big headed, small and skinny limbed, huge eyed alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), who not only has miraculous powers, but who also has served over the years as a scientific and sociological technical consultant following his capture.Paul, it turns out, has escaped from Area 51. Why, after all these years? Because he's outlived his usefulness and the government wants to harvest his stem cells. And, it goes without saying that he's being pursued by government agent - Lorenzo Zoil (Jason Bateman), who's taking orders from his superior, "The Big Guy" (Sigourney Weaver).From this point on, the movie turns into one big chase. First, they abduct Jesus freak Ruth Buggs (Kristen Wiig), who suffers from a left-eye problem that Paul fixes, converting her into a believer in aliens. Her father, Moses (John Carroll Lynch), takes up the chase.Agent Zoil is joined by two local FBI agents who prove to be pretty inept loose cannons.Everybody eventually converges on a rendezvous point set up earlier by Paul's summons to his rescue ship. The two local agents aren't there, having been deleted from the equation. However, an elderly woman - Tara Walton (Blythe Danner) - has joined them. See, 'way back in 1947, Paul's UFO crash-landed on her dog, Paul, due to mechanical failure (or something like that). Tara saved Paul's (the alien's) life by pulling him out of the wreckage.Jane Lynch and Jeffrey Tambor have small but important roles; Steven Spielberg has a voice cameo in which he has a telephone conversation with Paul about plot points in E.T.: The" Extra-"Terrestrial". There are winks to several other iconic alien/UFO films, including "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars", "X-Files", "Men in Black", and non-alien movies such as Spielberg's "1941" and "Jaws"."Paul" is a pretty funny movie. There's a lot of cursing, but except for some awkward utterances by Ruth at inappropriate (though intentionally selected) times, they occur naturally in the normal flow of exclamatory conversation. Oh, and there's a good quantity of "crotch" activity that prudes might find offensive.But hey, the movie is rated R after all."Paul" did well at the box office, earning nearly 98 million at the box office, against a budget of 40 million."Grade: B+"

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