British sci-fi comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Two geeky Brits, Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost), are driving across the United States in a hired van to a comic book convention in San Diego. As they pass by Area 51, a military base known for multiple UFO sightings, they accidentally pick up an alien, Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), and before long their quiet road trip has turned into an intergalactic adventure.
M**S
Love this film watched so many times
Worth having at our finger tips digitally such a good watch !
P**R
Hilarious
I love this film.Always one to cheer me up after a long hard day
L**S
An alien friend like no other
Absolutely hilarious. It never fails to amuse even after several viewings Simon Pegg’s best by far 👍
J**M
Paul
Paul sees two comic book geeks (Simon Pegg & Nick Frost) take a road trip to Area 51, where they run into alien called Paul (Seth Rogen). With federal agents (Jason Bateman, Bill Hader & Joe Lo Truglio) in pursuit they must find a way to return Paul to his spaceship.Despite lacking the creativity of Edgar Wright’s direction and the wit of his writing, Paul is still an entertaining road trip with Pegg & Frost’s usual great double lead chemistry, plus Rogen’s foul mouthed stoner alien and their writing balancing immaturity, sci-fi and friendship very well, whilst also being backed up by a brilliant supporting cast.The story takes the very familiar road trip comedy formula and adds a layer of sci-fi, comic book and geek culture that harks back to their Spaced roots as well as incorporating a more ‘American’ approach to the comedy, that admittedly does lack the cult and clever appeal of their work with Wright but also makes for several genuinely hilarious moments throughout and many memorable lines and callbacks.There is some surprisingly well choreographed and fast paced chase sequences that constantly keep the pace up of the film and are interspersed with more chilled out and character focused moments. From a direction and visual perspective the film is fairly basic but it gets the job done. The CGI and movements of Paul is done extremely well and looks very realistic at times even nearly 10 years later.As mentioned earlier Pegg & Frost are still great here as the lead duo, with Graham and Clive being a likeable pair. Seth Rogen brings his stoner persona and rude slapstick and toilet humour to Paul with great effect. Jason Bateman’s dry sarcastic tone and deadly serious persona as Agent Zoil works well and his bumbling colleagues played by Bill Hader & Joe Lo Truglio are a riot. Kristen Wiig is cooky and enthusiastic as very religious Ruth who gets dragged along on the trip and Sigourney Weaver gives a seething scenery chewing performance as The Big Guy.Paul is an underrated and entertaining early 10’s comedy with an excellent cast, fast paced and engaging road trip premise and some genuinely funny moments. It is very familiar at times and the character arcs and jokes are predictable at times, however that doesn’t stop it being a tonne of fun.
M**N
Brilliant
Laugh a minute and 70+ minutes of said laughter 🤪
T**L
Dvd
Excellent film Vale for money
C**
It’s funny
Great feel happy film
G**C
UFO Road Trip
Pegg/Frost's latest comedy collaboration is a space-alien/conspiracy genre road movie. Frost is a sci-fi writer and Pegg his artist who following a comic convention in the USA head along the UFO tourist trail in a hired Winnebago, taking in the famous sights from UFO and conspiracy lore. When following a mysterious car crash in the dead of night they come across a grey alien on the run from the ubiquitous "men in black", the film follows how two comic-book/UFO geeks would react if they actually did run into the true source of their fantasies.The alien, Paul, has learned English at the hands of the US authorities and as a result has turned out vulgar and foul-mouthed. After he joins them, Pegg and Frost's much more innocent characters "accidentally rescue" a Born Again Christian from her oppressive father while trying to keep Paul's presence a secret, which leads to a couple of scenes that the overly religious may find either insulting or funny, depending upon their level of fundamentalism.The Pegg/Frost collaborations often take a genre which has an existing cult fan base (e.g. Hot Fuzz the Dennis Wheatley film / Rosemary's Baby-style satanic conspiracy spoof, Shaun Of The Dead the spoof on cult zombie movies) and loads them with a range of genre references, much like their TV show Spaced [1999 ]. Men In Black 1997) was another comedy in this genre to load-up with references, appealing to both the hard-line geek and the casual viewer in different ways.I personally enjoyed it very much and found it very funny, and like most of the duo's films it displays their ability to carry the similarities of Pegg and Frost's characters and relationship over into what often turn out to be very dissimilar films.
M**W
Funny
Gotta love this movie!
V**E
Película divertida
Opinión para la edición alemana del bluray de Paul, con ASIN: B004TECRCMLa película tiene audio castellano y los extras tienen subtítulos en español. La portada es reversible sin el sello alemán de la edad.Un saludo :)
M**E
アメリカの日常
宇宙人なれどすっかりアメリカンスタイルに馴染み、溶け込んですっとぼけた生活ぶり、それに振り回される周囲や国のドタバタが皮肉っぽく描いてあるのが面白く感じられました。過去のいろいろな映画へのオマージュも捧げられており、SFマニアならぜひ観ておく作品ですね。
G**G
Epic sci fi comedy
Paul is an epic sci fi comedy with countless references to classic sci fi movies and TV... starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen, you know it’s going to be good.An American road trip with a smart assed alien who’s just escaped from Area 51..Paul is such a great movie for sci fi and comedy fans.
J**E
This movie is funy
I realy like this movie
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