In Columbia Pictures’ comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James stars as the title character, a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. Though no one else takes his job seriously, Paul considers himself on the front lines of safety. When a heist shuts down the megaplex, Jersey’s most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.Attention, shoppers: Former King of Queens star Kevin James makes the successful leap to big screen leading man with this Die Hard meets Home Alone slapstick comedy produced by Adam Sandler. In his most empathetic role since his endearing scene-stealing turn in Hitch, James (who also co-wrote the script) stars as biggest loser Paul Blart, a 10-year veteran of the West Orange, New Jersey shopping mall, where he gets no respect from taunting kids who pelt him with ball pit orbs, or a senior who brazenly violates Bart’s strictly enforced speed limit in his motorized wheelchair. The film is slow to get rolling as it lays on the pathos as thick as the peanut butter the lonely, overweight and socially awkward Blart spreads on his pies (“Food fills the cracks in he heart,” he tells his mother). But then, a band of cycling, skateboarding thieves presumably recruited from the X games take over the mall on so-called Black Friday, the busiest holiday season shopping day. Blart is “untrained, unarmed, and presents a huge target,” but, like a plus-size John McClane on a Segway, he is the wild card determined to stop them and rescue his unrequited crush (Jayma Mays) who has been taken hostage. James carries the film on his massive shoulders (the supporting cast is strictly discount outlet, with comedian Adam Ferrara as a sympathetic cop and Bobby Cannavale from Will & Grace and Third Watch as a bullying SWAT team leader the most familiar faces). He proves himself to be an impressively agile physical comedian and he’s game for every body slam, pratfall, and tumble. Rated PG for mild violence, a few profanities, and a couple of gross-out gags, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is less crude than previous Sandler productions, more The Benchwarmers than Deuce Bigalow. –Donald Liebenson
Stills from Paul Blart: Mall Cop (click for larger image)
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March 5, 2010
#1
This “movie” makes me ashamed to be an American. The only reason I went was because my friends wanted to see it and they had free tickets. I cannot understand how it has done so well at the box office. Even the kids in the theater wern’t laughing at this turkey.
I want the hour and odd minutes of my life back. You will too.
March 5, 2010
#2
Version: U.S.A / Sony / Region Free
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS
Running time: 1:31:03
Movie size: 27,17 GB
Disc size: 39,78 GB
Total bit rate: 39.78 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 29.73 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1593 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1593 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio French 1591 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1591 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio Portuguese 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English (SDH), English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Number of chapters: 16
#Audio Commentary
#Featurettes (HD – 50 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD – 12 minutes)
#BD-Live enabled
#DVD Digital Copy
March 5, 2010
#3
I Immediately returned to Paul Rhimes because of scratches and not sealed. Mr Rimes did receive it over a month and still have not received a credit to my credit card account. Definitely not reputable Company. I have read other reviews for Rhimes and saw same explanation given. Where do I go next???
March 5, 2010
#4
I wanted to check this one out in the theatre so now that it’s finally been released to home video I was excited to check it out. Wow, not one single redeaming quality to the entire movie. Watch the trailer & you’ve seen the funny bits of the movie. It’s apparent that Kevin James is Adam Sandler’s new fat guy friend, but no matter how hard he tries to be Chris Farly he MOST CERTAINLY ain’t. This movie was so bad that my wife & I have promised each other to make sure to plan something really cool for May 20th, 2010 to make up the wasted life spent on this poor excuse for comedy. Who was the target audience for this movie? I didn’t even chuckle, didn’t even smile, it was just sloppy film making & kinda depressing. How about the underlying statchatory rape love theme thing going on through out the movie, was I the only one a little creeped out by this? I kept expecting the dateline guy to pop out & arrest the mall cop. That at least would’ve been funny. Who ever thought up the whole “extreme sportsman gang of bad guys” anyway? I mean let’s get real, is that not just one of the lamest ideas for a movie since the beginning of time? And how about the ending, I was so frustrated by the time the stupid thing was finally over, it had like 4 ending before it actually ended. I kept thinking “okay this must be the end, nope, this must be the ending, nope”. Anyway, can’t put into words what a waste of time, money & energy, life… it was just plain horrible. Go like… pick up a bunch of broken glass with your bare hands for a couple hours, you’ll get more satisfaction out of that than you will with Blart.
March 5, 2010
#5
It’s films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop that remind me why I have almost no respect for comedies and why I’ll almost never watch one. This is yet another bad comedy in what seems to be an endless stream of awful comedies that just keep coming. I felt my brain cells die, it made me squirm with its awfulness, and I wanted to fall asleep because it was so painfully dull and atrocious. Kevin James, stick to King of Queens, and stay out of film-making, for the love of God! Make it stop! End this madness!
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Paul Blart, is a mall security cop who has the dreams of becoming a state trooper and one day meeting the right woman. But when the mall gets taken over by a group of robbers who take hostages, Paul Blart must save the hostages and stop the plans of the robbers. There is nothing original about this storyline because you’ve seen in many times before in films that don’t suck. It not only steals ideas from other comedies, but it steals ideas from action films as well.
MUSIC: The music is typical for such a film, and because of its lack of originality I got bored of it quickly. This area is not good, on top of the cornucopia of flaws this film already oozes with.
ACTION: This film is incredibly dull when it comes to action scenes because it’s been all done before. The sheer amount of cliches and rip-offs this film contains is maddening. No matter how much I tried to convince myself that this film would get better, it did not and it was just another miserable waste of time like just about any other comedy as of late. I was almost driven insane with how boring and cliched this film was, sans maybe two interesting action moments. This is yet another area this film fails in.
ACTING: I find Kevin James to be funny in the sitcom King of Queens, but his performance in this film is a wretched train-wreck. The other actors were frightfully bad as well, and did not bring out any joy or fun a family comedy should have. The dialogue is also a God-awful, torturous mess that left me fuming and hating this film even more as it went along. This area like the rest of the film is awful.
HUMOR: I only got two cheap chuckles in the entire film. THE ENTIRE FILM! The film contains numerous tired gags that you’ve seen many times before and the jokes are stale and utterly boring. Can Hollywood not come up with any funny jokes at all? This is most likely the worst part of the entire film, which is saying a lot considering how bad pretty much everything else about this film is. This part of the film is horrid, putrid, and downright insulting to a person’s intelligence. This film will only kill your brain cells.
OVERALL: Don’t even bother wasting your time with this egregious effort. This is a bottom-of-the-barrel comedy and is as generic and uninspired as they come. I’m sure there will be some families who will enjoy this, but considering the scores for this film I’ve seen, I shouldn’t have to worry about too many families falling into the clutches of this atrocious disaster. Unless you like walking away from a film feeling dumber than you were before, stay away from this failure.
THE GOOD: A few mildly interesting action scenes and the two brief chuckles I got out of this film.
THE BAD: Everything else.