This film is old now, and so is the review, but… It’s a taste of things to come.

Pegg and Frost are back and haven’t lost the questionably homosexual tension. Seth Rogan joins the ride to add into the much loved gay jokes. Sausage.
Mash up is a word that’s been flying around a lot lately, mainly due to Glee, but this film is a mash-up of sorts. Imagine if Superbad and Shaun of the dead had a baby and it was then raised by a gay Sci-fi-con couple. You’d end up with Paul.
Full to the brim of Indiana Jones’ hat with pop culture references, this film follows Illustrator Graeme Willy (Pegg) and his comic writing friend Clive Gollings (Frost, of course) as they plan to take a road trip across the UFO hotspots of the USA and… Mexico. Does that count? I failed geography.
Graeme and Clive come to Comicon in san Diego CA (which I’m assured is every nerds wet dream) to meet their hero, Adam Shadowchild, which leads to an in-joke throughout the film which can leave you feeling excluded if you weren’t paying full attention, although you’re quickly appeased with “three tits, awesome!”
Enter Paul, the foul mouthed, rude, quick witted, sexual deviant. Essentially Seth Rogan in a little green mans’ body, which is Not a bad thing. The Mix of British Rom-Zom-Com humour we’ve come to love, with the American “I need to get laid, I’m pathetic.” style we’ve seen in Gregg Mottola’s Superbad, is like mixing French fries and Ice cream. It shouldn’t work but it does. Awesomely.
Paul crash landed to earth in 1947 on top of a dog (named Paul, you get the idea…) and was pulled from the wreckage by a small girl named Tara, Who when grown up is played by the elegant Focker-in-law Blyth Danner. The Main trio meet after Paul is fleeing from Special Agent Zoil, (Jason Bateman) under orders from “The Big Guy” and flips the car he was driving… badly. Graeme takes him aboard after Clive faints and pisses himself. A few nudity gags later and we meet Ruth, (Kristen Wiig) who believes that the earth is 4000 years old until Paul introduces Himself and essentially Mind fucks her with his hand, crushing her belief system, hurrah!
The Trio are then chased across the states by rednecks, Ruth’s overprotective father, and Zoil. The time this takes is filled brilliantly with Paul dressed as a cowboy, a little romance and more car chases. I found myself filled with a strange joy towards the end when I realised the twist was a good one. Not an M Night Shyahahamalalanamamam one or however you spell it. I don’t care. I haven’t seen one of his films since “the village” it would be an exercise in boredom. Ooh and by the way “the Big Guy” turns out to be a familiar face and leads to a beautiful one liner.
One of the few, and I mean few, downfalls of this film is the self referencing, however Pegg and Frost wrote this together and it’s becoming a trademark, it’s tricky at times to stay with, and I found myself talking during the film to try to differentiate between fiction in their world, and fiction in ours. It requires constant attention if you want to get every gag, references and poke at the genre’s to which it aspires. If you’re after a funny as balls movie with a sass talking alien, it does the job too and you can’t fault it for that.
“Are you going to probe us?”
“Why does everyone always assume that? What am I doing? What am I harvesting farts? How much can I possibly learn from an ass?”