![]() It pokes fun at Hollywood’s obsession with and characterization of alien life (in particular the alleged need aliens have to examine the more disgusting parts of the human body,) and the various filmic interpretations. Paul has some extremely funny and clever moments, most riding on the audience’s knowledge of other sci-fi films from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film follows a fairly predictable pattern of flight from the law, strange encounters with even stranger people, disaster, romance, and eventual redemption. All are in a land whose culture is foreign all stick out like oases in the desert, and all are slightly uncomfortable with their strangeness, except with each other. This is a good premise: earthly aliens (Brits in America) teaming up with an unearthly one. They are being followed by a government agent, two slightly inept cops, and manage to pickup an odd religious nut along the way. Late one night they encounter Paul (the oddest named alien in film history, voiced by Seth Rogen), who needs them to help him get to Wyoming so he can get the hell out of Dodge. Pegg and Frost play Graeme and Clive respectively, two British geeks who take a lifelong dream trip to Comic-Con in San Diego, followed by a road trip in an RV to famous UFO/alien sites of the southwest United States. Scott Pilgrim is one example of this and now Paul is another. Separate the trio, and while the work is still very good, it doesn’t quite reach the same peak. ![]() These three individuals have oodles of talent on their own but bring the three of them together, and they hit a whole new level of brilliance. This could be applied to the masterful cinematic combination of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. The saying goes, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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