Advantages: Good facilities. Well appointed. Light and airey. Air conditioned. Disadvantages: Eye-wateringly expensive. Could be anywhere in the world
INTRODUCTION
In the seven or eight years I have been going to Cyprus for my holidays, a lot has changed, and not necessarily for the better. It was only a matter of time before this beautiful island was afflicted with the relentless influx of multinational American brands and corporations that seem to blight Europe these days. The drive down the Finikoudes ? Larnaka?s main, palm-lined seaside promenade ? now takes you past McDonald?s, KFC, TGI Friday, Haagen Dazs, Pizza Hut, and Bennigans. The seemingly unstoppable globalisation of Cyprus seems well and truly underway.
So it was with dread and dismay that I received the news that Cyprus had been ?blessed? with two new malls since my last visit two years ago ? the ?Mall of Cyprus?, built next to an IKEA on the outskirts of Lefkosia (Nicosia), and the newer ?My Mall?, an even ...
Advantages: Great comical movie, some fine stunts and many laughs throughout Disadvantages: none for me to complain about.
At the moment Blockbusters are having quite a good deal on there DVDs, offering 5 dvds for a tenner for four nights. So I chose a few movies that grabbed my attention, one of them being a movie that I had heard a lot of good things about, that movie being Paul Blart Mall Cop.
Director: Steve Carr
Producers: Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Barry Bernardi
Writers: Kevin James and Nick Bakay
Stars: Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keirs O?Donnell, Peter Gerety Bobby Cannavale and Adam Ferrara
Released in early 2009 and given a PG certificate
** Brief plot?
Paul Blart (Kevin James), who lives with his mother, (Shirley Knight), and his daughter Maya, (Raini Rodriguez), is a rather large figure of a security officer in a shopping mall, which he has been for over a decade, mainly because he keeps failing to pass ...
Advantages: Made Me Giggle Disadvantages: None For Me
are main focus of the film, except maybe Pauls love interest Amy, played by Jayma Mays. I?ve never heard of her at all, but she did the sweet soft spoken mall worker role justice and I have to admit to thinking she was actually very pretty.
My thoughts and Opinion
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As I have said, this is a physical comedy that revolves mostly around Paul?s inability to do things the conventional way, with his reliance on sugar to keep him going and his cubby stature, he has to think of different ways to beat the bad guys. This film was right up my alley for some silly humour that was easy to watch without trying too hard. It kept my interest completely for the entire length of the film.
I did compare it to die hard at one point, with the similarities of being stuck in a building with crooks and having to stay ...
