Rotten
The Black Friday setting suggests that this was meant to be a holiday release, but it's not hard to see why the studio dumped this suckfest in January.
Hank Sartin, Time Out New York
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Safety Never Takes A Holiday.
2009 · 1h 31m · PG
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Directed by
Steve Carr
Overview
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Once you've seen about the first 20 minutes of the movie, you've got a sense of what all of the jokes were going to be.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Fresh
James gives it everything he's got, totally committing to the character and delivering clean comedy which often times is often more difficult than creating just a raunch-fest.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Rotten
The last name Blart may be the funniest thing in the movie, so that's a hint as to just how bad this shopping-center saga can be.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Fresh
It's surprisingly okay, in a January kind of way.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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