Paul (2011)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/UK

Feature Film

Director: Greg Mottola

Writers: Nick Frost, Simon Pegg

Cinematographer: Lawrence Sher

Composer: David Arnold

Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio

Two sci-fi loving comic book nerds from England, fresh from their first visit to Comic-Con, set off on a UFO-hotspot road trip across the US, which is enlivened considerably by their meeting of Paul, a pot-smoking alien on the lam from nefarious government agents, whom they attempt to aid in his plan to return to his own planet, in this amiable, sporadically entertaining, reference-heavy road movie, which is never quite as entertaining as it should be. Iain.Stott