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Commander James Kent (Bobby Cannavale) leads a SWAT team that arrive, Kent was Paul's former childhood classmate and used to bully him, he orders Paul let the team take control of the situation. Paul was playing in a video game arcade, so was distracted and unaware of the situation, upon realising he calls the police, speaking to Commander Sergeant Howard (Adam Ferrara), he was ready to sneak out, but then he finds out Amy is still inside, he returns to try and find her. The gang leader is Simms, the mall security job training was a ploy to gain intelligence, the hostages are insurance for the gang's escape, motion sensors are placed around all entrances to detect any attempted entries or exits of the building. Two days later, after embarrassing himself in front of Amy after an intake of alcohol, it is Black Friday, and a gang of organised criminals, disguised as employees of Santa's Village, take Amy and a small group of customers hostage, and begin what seems to be a bank heist inside the mall. On his daily patrol one day, on his trusty Segway, Paul notices a new kiosk, and he is instantly attracted to its vendor Amy Anderson (Jayma Mays), but he finds it hard to speak to her, meanwhile he is assigned to train new rookie Veck Simms (Keir O'Donnell). Paul aspired to be a New Jersey State Police officer, but he has a hypoglycemic medical condition, this causes him to collapse if he does not have sugar, he therefore failed his entrance exam. Basically Paul Blart (Kevin James) is an overweight mild-mannered security guard who works in a New Jersey mall, he is single but lives with teenage daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez), and his elderly mother Margaret (Shirley Knight). Dolittle 2, Daddy Day Care, Are We Done Yet?).
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I had seen a couple of clips of this show, I didn't know anything about the plot, only the leading star from Grown Ups, so despite the low or average ratings I was up for trying it, directed by Steve Carr (Dr. James' spirited performance and prat falls prevent it being totally without merit but one cannot help feel that he deserves better than this.
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It lacks imagination, wit and laughs, leaving an action plot that doesn't work and doesn't provide as much laughs as it should. Overall Paul Blart does just what you expect it to do – which is essentially nothing. O'Donnell, Mays, Gerety and others all do the basics – the only one that stuck in my mind was the awesomely sexy Natascha Hopkins, although she is out of the way far too early. Unfortunately he doesn't get enough opportunities to show this because of the material. He doesn't work when he becomes tougher but as a "loveable fat guy" he is actually very good. It is a shame because James is a big asset to the film and he is actually a lot more able in terms of physical comedy than I thought. I wanted it to be much more imaginative in how silly it was, to really play for it (particularly given that I love Die Hard and would be happy to see it referenced) but instead it plays it as if we are meant to take the action even semi-seriously – which of course the majority of viewers will not be able to. It doesn't do even this for my money though, mainly because it provided me with essentially one chuckle (when Blart goes Ben Hurr with a cuddly toy) and no other laughs to speak of. It goes along amiably enough for 90 minutes though (a time that always seems like something has targeted it rather than the film working best at that length) and it offers very little to offend, as if it is specifically just trying to attract as many people who are looking for easy distraction – which of course it is. The comedy is mostly around the fact that Blart is a big fat guy who falls down (a lot) while the robbery thread is incredibly unconvincing excuse to get free-running style antics into play. Sadly what it doesn't turn out to be is funny or anywhere near as imaginative as it needs to be. What it turned out to be was actually just that but with the main thread being a spoof of Die Hard set in a mall. I wasn't sure of the plot of this film but I was reasonably sure that it would be "luckless fat guy gets girl and does good in the end".