Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Die-hard Kevin James fans will get additional mileage from it, butPaul Blart: Mall Cop 2is a pretty easy pass for everyone else.
Paul Blart : Mall Cop 2picks up with New Jersey mall security measures officeholder Paul Blart ( Kevin James ) , whose life has n’t exactly changed for the better since his Black Friday heist - thwarting deeds six years ago . His married woman Amy ( Jayma Mays ) dumped him after a week of marriage , while his mother ( Shirley Knight ) has died , leaving him to be alone with his girl , Maya ( Raini Rodriguez ) . All the same , when the Blarts take a trip to Las Vegas for a plaza security convention , Paul buy the farm with the expectation that he will be best recognized for his deathless commitment to his pick out profession .
However , the Blarts ' " holiday " gets cut light when it turns out a gang of professional thieves - led by a fellow named Vincent ( Neal McDonough ) - have select The Wynn ( where Paul and Maya are staying ) as the quarry for their next surgical process . Can Paul and his fellow under - apprehended shopping centre cop rebound together and lay aside the day ?
The firstPaul Blartwas a significant commercial success when it released in 2009 ( it gross $ 183 million worldwide on a $ 26 million budget ) , which make it odd that the sequel has need over six years to accomplish theaters . There still ought to be an consultation willing to turn - out for more of this particular Kevin James character , see as thePaul Blartfranchise is the rarified Hollywood property that provide unoffending dumb laugh in a family - friendly action mechanism / drollery package - without also creep in any lewder adult joke or raunchy humor ( as family movies often do ) .
That being said , thePaul Blart : Mall Cop 2script written by James and Nick Bakay ( who also pen the original plastic film ) is about as lusterless as most people are probably expecting it to be . The main tale yarn forMall Cop 2is a sire - daughter history about Paul and Maya ( who ’s been take to UCLA ) , but even that simple plot winds up half - bake and oft pushed apart , to make way for more of James ' scene - chew comical put-on . There are a handle of supporting level threads and run away prank woven into the proceedings too ( include a romantic subplot for Maya ) , but they get so small development that most of them miscarry to even empty the scurvy measure thatMall Cop 2is in the end aiming for .
James ' camera - mugging and boo-boo are the chief attractive force inPaul Blart : Mall Cop 2 , so director Andy Fickman ( Race to Witch Mountain , Parental Guidance ) have intercourse better than to focus the television camera on much else . As a result , Mall Cop 2does offer a handful of brainless laughs - the amount depends on how much you delight James ' comedy in general . Still , most of the movie ’s action / comedy sequence are handled with as much care and preciseness as your mean goggle box commercial . It ’s too unfit , really , since a number of the gags have promise , while the Las Vegas scope could ’ve been put to better utilize when it add up to denounce the various funniness set piece - but , of form , that would ’ve want more than a minimal effort on the part of the filmmakers .
Paul Blart stay a fairly electrostatic character throughoutMall Cop 2 ’s running clock time , which have in mind James does n’t have much more to do than a retread on his shenanigans in the first motion picture ( whether James ' shtik come off more / less labored here is up for debate).Mall Cop 2also suffers from a mutual Hollywood comedy ill - where the movie often shifts clunkily from cheer on James ' stammer protagonist to mock his harlequinade . The moments of thought in the celluloid ( involving Paul and Maya ) descend off as all the less earnest and more awkwardly horseshoe - horned in for it , but Raini Rodriguez makes the good of what little she ’s given to work with .
Neal McDonough ( Red 2 ) plays a moderately ho - hum true - man / antagonist for most ofMall Cop 2 , though he terminate up pay off perhaps the bountiful laugh of the sequel ( during a scene with James ) . The remainder of the cast is stuck playing stock types , including : David Henrie ( Wizards of Waverly Place ) , play the beloved interest for Maya ; Eduardo Verástegui ( Bella ) as the protection officeholder rival to Paul ; and drift members like Loni Love ( Kickin ' It ) and Gary Valentine ( James ' formerKing of Queenscostar ) as the comical stereotype of real - aliveness mall cops . At least Daniella Alonso ( Revolution ) cause a laugh or two as The Wynn ’s manager , Divina , who ’s horror-struck to acquire that she may actually be quite attracted to Paul .
A continuation toPaul Blart : Mall Cop(or any movie released by Happy Madison productions today ) naturally carry low expectations with it , butMall fuzz 2only just meet its quota for guilty gag . give-up the ghost - hard Kevin James fans will get additional gas mileage from it , butPaul Blart : Mall Cop 2is a somewhat easy pass for everyone else .
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Paul Blart : Mall Cop 2is now playing in U.S. theaters . It is 94 minutes tenacious and is Rated PG for some fury .
Paul Blart : Mall Cop 2 is a comedy moving picture that follow the adventures of Paul Blart , a mall security safety , as he attend a certificate precaution exposition in Las Vegas . Kevin James reprises his function as Blart , who find himself taking on reprehensible masterminds contrive a heist . Directed by Andy Fickman , this continuation uphold the comedic and action - filled exploits of the dedicated , albeit bumbling , mall cop .
Raini Rodriguez and Kevin James in ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2’
Daniella Alonso and Eduardo Verástegui in ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2’
