Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:11:39 AM
My wife and I saw Mall Cop
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1114740/ tonight. An onion has many layers, this movie has pretty much one layer, fat jokes. They pretty much exhaust the genre. An overweight loser hypoglycemic is forced to work as a mall cop because he couldn't get through the policy academy. This movie also exhausts every joke that can be told about a Segway
http://www.segway.com/. I think in a reverse twist on product placement, Segway obviously didn't spend enough to keep their product out. Bad guys lead by (WARNING PLOT SPOILER) a guy posing as a mall cop trainee, take over the mall to I think steal security codes from credit card machines to I guess steal the money from Black Friday sales. The villains appear to be skate boarder types. Their attempt to take over the mall is foiled by Paul Blart played by Kevin James
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416673/ who pretty much single handedly takes them all down and gets the girl, the girl
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1724323/ who sells hair extensions from a kiosk . You may remember Kevin James from the TV sitcom King of Queens
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165581/. King of Queens was part of a short lived trend where you had a slob of a husband with a hot wife, the other being According to Jim
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285351/. With Mall Cop, there is action, drama, plot twists, romance and just enough potty humor. It reminded me of Reindeer Games
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184858/ in that they were both movies and have something vaguely to do with Christmas time. That one was directed by John Frankenheimer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001239/. This one was not. On the plus side, that one has Ben Affleck
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=BEN+AFFLECK&x=0&y=0 and this one does not. The bad guys here are named after Santa's reindeer. Overall I'd give it a 2.5 out of four stars.