Because I was feeling poorly last night I was unable to watch a film before bed and so that means there is no Sunday Night Movie post for this week. To make up for that to my half dozen of so readers I will present a short review of the film Paul that my sweetie-wife and I saw yesterday morning.

Now, as you can see from the screen capture to the left, Paul is not a film that takes itself very seriously. Written by Simon Pegg and Nick frost, the talented writer/actor duo that brought us both Shawn of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, Paul is the story of an alien stranded on Earth and the friendly and not so friendly natives.

Where Shawn Of The Dead skewered the zombie genre and Hot Fuzz did the same to the buddy cop movie, Paul is this pair’s love letter to geek culture. I adored Shawn of The Dead, it is one of the best zombie movies every made while still being a top flight romantic-comedy. Provided you can handled fairly intense violence, I would not hesitate to recommend Shawn Of the Dead to you. Hot Fuzz did not work so well for me. I smirked and laughed a bit, but it was not as funny as Shawn Of the Dead and perhaps I was not the right audience. I admit that I seen few cop buddy films, so there could have been layers of humor just skimming above my headspace.

That was not the case with Paul.

Paul is a movie layered with geek references,  they come at you visually, musically, franticly, and endlessly. The film opens and close with scenes set at the world famous San Diego Comic-Con. It is not a film that laughs at geeks, though the geeks perpetually fish out of water experience in the real world is a source of humor, but lovingly this film  embraces the heart, soul, and intelligence that is at the heart of geek culture.

There is no doubt I will be buying this film on blu-ray, and I may go see it again in the theaters. I loved it just that much.