Observe and Report

Observe and Report (Seth Rogan, Ray Liotta) – I thought I would never see a movie worse than Myra Breckinridge.  I was wrong.  This is the worst movie in years.  Seth Rogan isn’t that talented to begin with, but he is positively unfunny, boring, and ludicrous in this awful redux of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.  At least the latter had Kevin James, who is likable even when he’s in a bad concept film.  The fact that some studio chose to release Observe and Report two months after Paul Blart tells you what dreck is masquerading as comedy these days.  When did mall security guards become interesting fodder as lead characters in movies?  And why did two different studios green-light projects so amazingly alike and inane?  Both movies feature a security officer who wants to be a real cop trying to woo a beautiful mall worker.  There’s a “perp.”  In Paul Blart, it’s a band of thieves trying to steal credit card codes; in Observe and Report, it’s a pervert exposing himself to women in the parking lot.  As ridiculous as the plot is of the former, the nude fat guy in the trench coat is hardly a threat to society as we know it.  And the fact that he runs around in full frontal splendor (or grossness) for two or three minutes at the end of the movie tells you just how low this movie goes to try to get a laugh.  Honest to God, I only smiled twice and never laughed in the most boring 90 minutes of my life.  I resent spending $16 to see this pile of garbage.  Please don’t waste your money.  Please.

 

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