Paul: An Alien's Road-Trip Comedy
英國／美國
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's sci-fi comedy sends two British geeks across the American Southwest, where they help a fugitive alien named Paul dodge the government while it gleefully riffs on greys, Area 51 and Roswell.
Paul, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Greg Mottola, is a road comedy that runs entirely on UFO fandom. Two English comic-book obsessives rent an RV to tour the American Southwest's alien hot spots and stumble onto Paul, a wisecracking extraterrestrial who has been detained and quietly consulted by the US government ever since crashing to Earth in 1947. Now he simply wants to go home, and the pair reluctantly become his getaway drivers.[1]
Rather than play the encounter for dread, the film treats close-encounter lore as an affectionate playground: it salutes the Spielberg-era alien movie while poking fun at conspiracy true-believers and the roadside industry that sells little-green-men kitsch. The ubiquitous 'grey' — big head, black almond eyes — becomes both mascot and punchline.
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