I had hope for this film being a fan of everything Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg had done in the past together. I suppose I love the real British humour mixed with Edgar Wright's extremely fast directing and editing. It adds a lot of excitement to the comedy violence and I wish Wright had directed Paul. With all that said I found this film to be very entertaining.
The characters of the film are done so well with a great contrast between Simon Pegg who plays a complete immature man-child who totally living in the past, and Nick Frost and the rest of the group playing utter squares. For me Pegg totally steals the film and his character is definitely the most consistently entertaining. The fast paced dialogue is great and at times you really feel for these characters and their situation that quickly escalates to a whole world of weird that you can't just predict even after seeing the trailers.
The film never takes itself seriously and it lends well to the material which is completely ridiculous. For the most part I felt the film had a good balance but towards the end it does spiral into some things that I felt were pushing it a bit far. Still funny of course but just a tad unnecessary. Thats really the only complaint I had.
I enjoyed the film and for me it was better than Hot Fuzz but not as good as Shaun of the Dead. I give the film 8/10.
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