Word: malle
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...Paul Blart, Mall...
...James. (Thin Clint was the middle of the sandwich.) The title of the James film both spelled out its modest intentions and lacked the inspired oxymoronia of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (which lacked any other redeeming feature). Most of the big critics skipped the ordeal of reviewing Mall Cop and handed it off to second-stringers, who pounded the film pretty savagely. So of course I had to find it ... almost semi-recommendable. Anyway, an easy...
...Paul Blart, who works the security detail at a West Orange, N.J., mall, doesn't even seem to be internalizing the expected rage. A single dad whose hypoglycemia has disqualified him from the police force, he endures the insults of a pen salesman (Stephen Rannazzisi) and the polite indifference of Amy (Jayma Mays), the cute gal at the hair-extensions booth, without troubling to seethe. He motors around on his Segway - riding it is the one thing at which he's an ace - smiling at Amy, shrugging off the rest of the world. Either Paul is conditioned by decades...
...movie comedy, to win the girl, take revenge on his detractor, thwart a major crime and become a hero. When Veck, a new security guard (Keir O'Donnell), turns out to be the head of a gang that takes Amy and his daughter (Raini Rodriguez) hostage during a mall robbery, Paul proves his mettle, outwitting Veck and overcoming the gang lord's parkouring minions...
...Ashtabula is in the northeastern corner of the state, between Cleveland and Erie, Penn., and it is perhaps Ohio’s most economically depressed county. The passing of a couple of months means another plant closing, families losing jobs and healthcare coverage. Homes everywhere are being foreclosed. The mall has almost as many empty storefronts as occupied ones. There is no Starbucks in Ashtabula. The home I lived in the first month I was there didn’t have cell phone reception, and many people in the southern half of the county—everything south...