Paul Blart: Mall Cop was a bad comedy about a fat idiot who, in between performing pratfalls, foiled a siege at the mall where he worked, so Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is a bad comedy about a fat idiot who, in between performing pratfalls, foils an art theft in Las Vegas, where hes on vacation. A movie destined to be this generations Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (only more likely to inspire mass suicide), Mall Cop 2 proves the power of positive drinking. You can almost hear the drunken executives egging each other on: Can we put in more fat jokes this time? How unlikeable can we make the lead character? Ive got it - lets have him talk down to ethnic minorities! In true sequel style, theres more of everything the first one had: more segways, more generic villains and another hilarious scene where Kevin James runs into a glass door.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
