Paul (2011)

"A good-hearted, funny movie.  Linda Holmes, NPR
"It's a road movie, a buddy movie, a chase movie and a sci-fi spoof, all rolled into one hilarious madcap adventure  Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
"a heartfelt tribute to friendship, what lies beyond the stars, and being a nerd.  Matt Neal, The Standard
"Smashing fun!  Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Irreverent and hilarious!  Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune

Editor's Note Two average sci-fi geeks get caught up in the ultimate interplanetary adventure after picking up an extraterrestrial during a road trip to Area 51 and becoming the targets of a nationwide manhunt. Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) are two British sci-fi geeks on holiday in America. After a trip to Comic-Con to meet their favorite author, Adam Shadowchild (Jeffrey Tambor), Graeme and Clive load up their RV and hit the road for a tour of some of the most famous UFO hotspots in the American Southwest. They know we're not alone in the universe, but they won't be satisfied until they get a firsthand glimpse of the famed Area 51. However, somewhere deep in the Nevada desert, the two UFO enthusiasts narrowly avoid crashing into a speeding car when they happen across a most unlikely hitchhiker. Paul (voice of Seth Rogan) is a pint-sized alien who has spent the last 60 years in Area 51. He's been cooped up in the care of the U.S. Government for far too long, and he's starting to get a little homesick. Though Graeme and Clive are more than willing to help their wisecracking new friend get back to his mother ship, Special Agent Zoil (Jason Bateman) of the FBI is closing in fast. And he's not the only one; in their race to get their new friend home, Graeme and Clive have also become unwitting kidnappers, and the enraged father of their not-so-unwilling captive, Ruth (Kristen Wiig), is determined to rescue his daughter at all costs. Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, and David Koechner co-star.

	Jason Bateman
	Blythe Danner
	John Carroll Lynch
	Sigourney Weaver
	Simon Pegg
	Kristen Wiig
	Bill Hader
	Nick Frost
	David House - Co-Star
	Nelson Ascencio - Co-Star
	Jeremy Owen - Co-Star
	Jennifer Granger - Co-Star
	Lori Dillen - Co-Star
	Brett Michael Jones - Co-Star
	Diego Deane - Co-Star
	Syd Masters - Co-Star
	Gary Roller - Co-Star
	Oliver O'Shea - Co-Star
	Lonnie Otha-Mayer - Co-Star
	Will Veitch - Co-Star
	Mark Sivertsen - Co-Star
	Steven Spielberg - Co-Star
	J. Todd Anderson - Co-Star
	Michael Miller - Co-Star
	David Koechner - Co-Star
	Joe LoTruglio - Co-Star
	Seth Rogen - Voice
	Jane Lynch - Co-Star
	Jeffrey Tambor - Co-Star
	Joe Berryman - Co-Star
	David B. Nowell - Photography
	Dennis Dion - Special Effects
	Jonathan Watson - Assistant Director
	David Arnold - Composer
	Nina Paskowitz - Hairstylist
	Carla Curry - Set Decorator
	Eamonn Butler - Director of Animation
	Nick Angel - Music Director
	Simon Pegg - Screenwriter
	Mary Burton - Makeup
	Paul Deely - Special Effects
	Jane Walker - Hairstylist
	Jane Walker - Makeup
	Double Negative Limited - Optical/Digital Effects
	Larry Sher - Director of Photography
	Scott Hastings - Special Effects
	Nick Frost - Screenwriter
	Robert Graf - Production Manager/UPM
	Ellen Lampl - Computer Graphics
	Chris Burdon - Sound Re-Recording
	Tania Windsor Blunden - Post-Production Supervisor
	Joel Hobbie - Special Effects
	Douglas Cooper - Sound Re-Recording
	Anders J.L. Beer - Animation Supervisor
	Darrin Prescott - Stunt Coordinator
	Juliet Hyde-White - Costumes
	Berlinda Cantu-Lewis - Hairstylist
	Georgia Allen - Makeup
	Danny Maldonado - Special Effects
	Greg Mottola - Director

Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a a sci-fi flick, but it's also a heartfelt tribute to Spielberg, something that reaches its crescendo in a plate-spinning final showdown that is action-paced, funny and unexpectedly moving." 03/01/2011

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 - "Briskly directed by Greg Mottola....[Paul] blends neatly with the landscape and co-stars..." 04/01/2011

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] slacker bromance....The addition of Jason Bateman and Bill Hader as Men In Black on their trail, Kristen Wiig as a partially sighted Christian and Seth Rogen as the 'voice' of Paul add something new." 04/01/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[A] sort of fractured E.T., with Seth Rogen never more likeable than as the bald-headed extraterrestrial who just wants to phone home..." 03/18/2011

USA Today
"Where Paul takes off is in its embrace and knowledge of sci-fi-icons....The creatures movements, facial expressions and interactions with human co-stars are seamless." 03/18/2011

Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "[An] inspired, hysterical, spot-on spoof....[With a] sharp-tongued central character and many witty references to popular sci-fi flicks." 03/18/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"[A] sweetly daft spaceman comedy....The filmmakers offer ups a spot-on cartoon of types we've loved in dozens of other movies..." -- Grade: B 03/25/2011

Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] cheeky spoof that puts a hilarious hurt to everything it loves....Rogen is a nonstop hoot, but it's the byplay between Frost and Pegg that roots the laughs in characters we care about." 03/31/2011

The Onion A.V. Club 8 of 10
Paul is more slapdash than Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, but it shares many of those film's virtues and underlying sweetness, though the alien sometimes comes off as a Poochie-like exemplar of in-your-face attitude. Yet by the time it reaches an appropriately epic conclusion, the film has earned its laughs as well as its big dramatic moments. Paul is a little sloppy and a little sappy, but the filmmakers' passion for their subject matter carries it over the occasional rough spot. - Nathan Rabin