Paul

Paul had the potential to be a really decent movie: a solid cast including Simon Pegg, Jason Bateman, Seth Rogan, SNL alums Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader, and cameos by Jane Lynch and Sigourney Weaver. This movie also had really good computer animation - that alien is adorable, and blended seamlessly into the live action. Where the movie falls flat though is with the plot, this one could have used some better writers (which I feel bad saying because the writers were the two main characters: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.) The story is pretty standard: two geeks run into an alien and help him find his way home. There is the love interest and the bad guy trying to stop the alien from reaching his destination. There is the obligatory slight twist at the end followed by a heartwarming finale. It's not as funny as it could have been and more predictable than it should have.

With that being said, it wasn't all bad. It was just good enough to not feel like I wasted my time, but not good enough to leave me with a "whoa, that was awesome/hilarious/epic...". Geeks will probably enjoy it more than I did - sci-fi references were aplenty and it includes a trip to Comic Con.

So much potential, but falls flat.