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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: 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. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The results are, again, not-quite-brilliant but funny enough. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: It's C-minus work from people who normally deliver A-level efforts. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: What makes the film largely work, despite its occasional slackness and over-trodden terrain, is its overall affability (and smutty words). Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: What's frustrating is how consistently the film waffles between the inspired and the inept. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: 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. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "Paul" gets messy in places and is a bit overlong, but overall it's great fun; so much so that you wonder why the makers of dreary Hollywood comedies don't take a look at this and realize that yes, you can make a funny movie without gross-out humor. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Paul is a little sloppy and a little sappy, but the filmmakers' passion for their subject matter carries it over the occasional rough spot. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: A celebration of sci-fi flicks, fanboys and good, old-fashioned bromance, "Paul" is a thoroughly enjoyable road trip. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Never achieves the exhilarating feat of exemplifying the types of Hollywood movies it wants to unpack. The airline's lost their luggage. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [Pegg and Frost'] successes seem to have functioned as a supermagnet, attracting not only the skilled comedy director Greg Mottola but a supporting cast that could sustain two or three movies on its own. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: 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? Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: 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. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Think of Paul as a love letter to fanboys, especially the variety that knows the standards well enough to hoot along every time a sci-fi hit rings up a reference. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Finds its own shambling, syncopated rhythm. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: 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. Read more
Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter: A sci-fi spoof for everyone with funny encounters that will require close attention. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: After the sharp bite and harsh light of most American-style guy-based funny films today, "Paul" comes as such sweet relief. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: How could so many talented people collaborate on something so dull? Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: What happened here? Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Beam us up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: 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. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Because of the lethargic pace, cheeky jokes become positively jowly. And the easy lampoons of rednecks and bible thumpers beg to be called "Close Encounters of the secondhand." Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Paul is arguably the best science fiction comedy since Galaxy Quest. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here's a movie that teeters on the edge of being really pretty good and loses its way. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: '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. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: There's simply no cure for the fundamental laziness behind "Paul," which amounts to a recycling program for tired gags about nerds, gays, nervous-nelly Brits, dumbass Yanks and little green men. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is a well-made, well-plotted and sensitive movie. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Missteps aside, there are lots of good ideas packed into the movie. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Somewhere between high concept and lowbrow humor, "Paul" hits the sweet spot of a genuine heart. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The results, it must be said, are less hi-larious than sporadically mid-to-low-larious. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A simple, entertaining road-trip movie that doesn't ask us to do much more than strap in and enjoy the trip. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Not bad, but certainly not good; classify the movie as lazy fun. Read more
Cath Clarke, Time Out: There are plenty of giggly gags but also a hint of diminishing returns. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: It's not out of this world, but Paul is just spacey enough to convince us the truth is out there. And buzzed. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: That's not to dismiss Paul's simple pleasures -- if nothing else, its fondness for sex and drugs and four-letter words rescues its references from the soft hands of wee ones into which they've fallen of late. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's more than occasionally cute, if less than consistently clever. Read more