Thin Comedy About a Fat Mall Cop

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The thin comic appeal of Kevin James is laid on a bit thicker in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," his first solo star vehicle for the big screen. As a chunky loner-loser who can never pass the New Jersey State Police exam and never get the girl, James practically channels John Candy at his most sympathetic in this not-a-real-cop comedy.

"Detect, deter, observe, report," that's the mall cop's motto. But Blart, a lonely single dad smitten with the blonde who sells hair extensions from a kiosk (Jayma Mays), always goes the extra mile, even when elderly customers are running him over with their scooters and obese women are giving him a beat-down or generally abusing him due to his lack of real authority.

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Thin Comedy About a Fat Mall Cop

Blart instructs a rookie in the ways of the job, "giving the illusion that you have a gun" and t...

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