Passably funny, though one suspects even diehard sci-fi buffs will find the film's wall-to-wall pop referencing tiring and a tad lazy. Doesn't anybody write genuine jokes any more?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 13, 2011

Paul isn't as riotous as the early Pegg and Frost movies, but it does have a certain sweetness. Everyone in it is sort of innocent, except Paul, the alien wisecracker. It's likeable, if uneven, rather than hilarious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2011

It is a sunny road trip comedy that had me smiling from the start, and while there are the occasional hiccups this is still as breezily a good time at the movies as I've had this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2011

Paul is offensive solely for being so underachieving.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 25, 2011

Well, that's one joke. Ninety more minutes to go.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2011

The film has some laughs. But it also has a million jokes about anal probes, alien genitalia, and people thinking Clive and Graeme are gay. These guys can do better than this.

| Original Score: C | Mar 21, 2011

The CGI alien is very well articulated, and Rogen is a virtuoso at mixing motormouthed rudeness with a hint of tenderness to take off the edge.

| Mar 21, 2011

This is not quite enough of a conceit to sustain a full-length movie -- Paul would have made a terrific short film -- but there are incidental pleasures all along the way.

| Original Score: B | Mar 18, 2011

A good-hearted, funny movie.

| Mar 18, 2011

The results, it must be said, are less hi-larious than sporadically mid-to-low-larious.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2011

In the end - as well as the middle and maybe even at the outset - Paul is more often a close encounter of the middling kind.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2011

The results are, again, not-quite-brilliant but funny enough.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 18, 2011

'Paul' is more a bagful of giggles. Rogen is a nonstop hoot, but it's the byplay between Frost and Pegg that roots the laughs in characters we care about.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2011

It's more than occasionally cute, if less than consistently clever.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2011

What has happened to Pegg? Why does he mug so? Why can't he relax and let the audience come to him, rather than auditioning for our affection with every reaction shot?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2011

Set your humor-detection capacitors for moderate to above-average intake levels. I haven't laughed this much since maybe last Monday, but that was a particularly strong Monday.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2011

An uneven but amiable road trip sci-fi comedy about an alien with sly references to everything from "Star Trek" and "2001" to "Alien" and "Battlestar Gallactica."

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 18, 2011

While Frost is particularly well-cast, most of the actors seem to be having fun. You will, too, as long as you arrive with lowered expectations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2011

Here's a movie that teeters on the edge of being really pretty good and loses its way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2011

What makes the film largely work, despite its occasional slackness and over-trodden terrain, is its overall affability (and smutty words).

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 17, 2011