Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are a likable slacker buddy duo, but starting to get a little long in the tooth for playing boy-men, just like yet another film which milks the remaining dregs of their geeky pop-culture fetishes for sniggers and limps over the finishing line powered only by the audience's indulgence for the cheeky pair. This time, with them on a alien site roadtrip after attending a comics convention and coming across a real wiseass extraterrestrial, the sci-fi references really take centre stage and returns from this for the individual viewer depend heavily on recognising them. There are some broader gags too, but these are too frequently just tedious, as is the prepubescent glee taken in using naughty words constantly. Time to change track.

4/10