PAUL BLART: MALL COP (2009) ** What might one say about a film such as this? Well, even the things that one might say seem...so...ahem....limited. Look, there's an honesty that's almost admirable about a film so doggedly and determinedly unambitious. But is there anything charismatic about the absence of charisma, some entropic element of the null set that might appear in any...such...life? Why not! Kevin James is a nice guy, he's honest, he's good, he's...um, nice...he's...you want him to do well, at least better, you want things to go right for him. And the theme-criminals that the fates throw him up against, it'll remind males (I won't say gentlemen) of a certain age of the [way better] '70s cult classic The Warriors. So, you know, anything that reminds you of The Warriors must have...erm....something. Waddy Wachtel even did some original music for it, and you have to wonder if he might have had a hand in the perfect placement of Barry Manilow's "Weekend in New England," and Kiss' "Detroit Rock City."
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