‘Paul’ brings alien life down to Earth
Even among the countless variations of alien species encountered in decades of science fiction buffs, an alien who, during his trip from, say, "Let's Bounce" is a new breed.
Paul, the character of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost recent comedy genre, is a stoner sarcastic steeped in pop culture and with breaks at the right time, gross observations. In short, it is Seth Rogen.
Rogen is the voice of Paul - a CGI-created alien with green skin and big eyes glassy - and it is difficult to ever forget. Although Paul has healing powers, invisibility and transfer of thought, its features are not its exoticism but its normality. He wears cargo shorts and hollow Marvin Gaye.
Two vacancies, shamelessly corny British Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost) falls on Paul's tour of South American west. Having started at Comic-Con, they continue in an RV rented from the Area 51 and other legendary sites of paranoia.
Disheveled and adorned with "The Empire Strikes Back" T-shirts and others, Graeme and Clive are fanboys to the slope. Clive waved eagerly science fiction novel he wrote with a lid with a woman and an anatomy multiplied. Sitting in a hotel room in white robes, they find their mature before the arrival of the hunter, making them cry "Pizza!
On the desert road, a car comes careening in front of them, accidents and Paul stumbles. Put face to face with the genuine article of their eagerness to believe Graeme and Clive are discarded ("We're on a tight schedule," one of the first answer), but against Paul
Trailing him are a handful of agents (Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio), with higher-ups (sci-fi queen Sigourney Weaver) to send commands from an unknown location. Paul, as he explains, has been on earth for decades, allowing it to absorb the culture and help, too.
In one scene, he showed Steven Spielberg giving advice by phone for "AND" If it was not already clear, "Paul" is replete with references to the movies love science fiction, "Predator" to "Dating of the Third Kind. " The height of these winks comes when the gang stumbles into a tavern, where a country band playing the song Cantina Band from "Star Wars".
En route, they encounter a Bible-pounding, heavily armed nut trailer-park (John Carroll Lynch) and her equally religious eyed daughter Ruth (the wonderful Kristen Wiig). The existence of a foreigner is suddenly obvious, as Paul describes, "a world theology," which gives an interesting place - sub-plot to the film - and certainly bias.
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