{"id":15887,"date":"2015-07-09T03:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2015-07-09T03:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T07:52:12","slug":"paul-blart-mall-cop-2-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/paul-blart-mall-cop-2-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because he\u2019s fat! That\u2019s the punch line for pretty much every joke in \u201cPaul Blart 2.\u201d In fact that\u2019s been the punch line for most of Kevin James\u2019 bland career. He\u2019s fat. That\u2019s why it\u2019s funny when he falls down. He lies in bed eating a bottomless bowl of M&M\u2019s. Because he\u2019s fat. Get it? He flips over whenever he falls because he\u2019s so fat. Get it? And he\u2019s loud, too. I can\u2019t believe anyone wanted a sequel to \u201cPaul Blart,\u201d but the first movie was a hit, so I assume a sequel was only logical.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just that the movie does nothing with the premise anymore, and James just invests himself in to a character that is so awkwardly stupid and unfunny the whole time he\u2019s on-screen. There\u2019s nothing about Paul Blart that\u2019s likable. He\u2019s selfish, whiny, egomaniacal, kind of xenophobic, and a glutton. Because he\u2019s fat! Yes, we get it. But hey at least James and his family got to go to the Wynn hotel and casino right?! Las Vegas, big hotel, five star accommodations, and they get to star in a film with ten percent of its run time devoted to establishing shots of the hotel and casino. Man does the Happy Madison crowd love a good work vacation or what?<\/p>\n

\u201cGrown Ups 2,\u201d \u201cBlended,\u201d \u201cPaul Blart 2,\u201d et al all feature the characters on vacation. The movie gets off on showing us how incredible the Wynn hotel and casino, right down to the very attractive concierges that even hit on Paul Blart at one point. Despite being fat. See, I changed it up there. Nothing has worked for Paul Blart. His mom dies, his cute fianc\u00e9 asks for a divorce and now he only has his daughter. She\u2019s been accepted in to UCLA but is afraid to tell her dad, who is lonely. He has a chance to attend a security conference in Las Vegas (Wynn!), and he is more than happy to attend with his daughter (Wynn! Wynn!). While there they don\u2019t realize they\u2019re in the middle of a huge theft involving art and the hotel\u2019s top tier gallery (Wynn! Wynn! Wynn!).<\/p>\n

Now Paul has to jump to the rescue and the every man gets his day to be heroic. When the movie isn\u2019t mocking the lower class and middle aged mind you. Every other character above the age of thirty or who doesn\u2019t look like a model are mocked relentlessly and forced in to the tedious and mean spirited racial stereotypes that border on offensive so often. The movie has no respect for the working class, and even less respect for its audience. There\u2019s nothing about Paul that can connect to the core audience, so we\u2019re just watching this moron running around and getting painfully lucky shots in on some of the worst henchmen since Adam West\u2019s Batman. I\u2019m shocked, with so much fat shaming that occurs, that Kevin James is still so affable and good natured. \u201cPaul Blart 2\u201d is not about the every man hero, it\u2019s about the fat slob working class and how we should laugh at them and not with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because he\u2019s fat! That\u2019s the punch line for pretty much every joke in \u201cPaul Blart 2.\u201d In fact that\u2019s been the punch line for most of Kevin James\u2019 bland career. He\u2019s fat. That\u2019s why it\u2019s funny when he falls down. He lies in bed eating a bottomless bowl of M&M\u2019s. Because he\u2019s fat. Get it? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,219,240,752,922],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-p","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15889,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions\/15889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}