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The film received generally postive reviews. It was number one at the United Kingdom box office in its first weekend, surpassing Gnomeo & Juliet, and was released in North America on March 18, 2011.
The film opens in the United States in 1947, with a dog named Paul rubbing to be let outside, where the sky is covered in eerie lights. When his owner, a young girl, lets him out, he is crushed by a crash landing starship. The girl pulling an stranger (Seth Rogen) from the wreckage, and names him Paul. He is taken away by the Government and held prisoner for 60 years. He eventually makes up one's mind to escape from his holding place, Area 51.
Two English funny-book nerds named Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) have travelled to America for the yearly funny-Con convention and to visit all the websites of major extraterrestrial importance. On the way to their second site, they stop off at a caf, where two hunters confront them. As they hurriedly leave, they reverse into the hunters' car, exiting a dent. At the next site, they see a car damaging towards them and, thinking it to be the hunters, they rush off in their RV. Eventually, the car catches up, and they understand that it is not the hunters. As it overcomes, it speeds off the road, wheels several times, and comes to a halt in a field. The two scared men get out to investigate. When they realize that the vehicle is empty and begin phoning the emergency servings, they listen a voice saying 'I wouldn't do that if I were you'. They turn around, and a little grey alien comes into view, fuming a cigarette, and tells Clive to put the phone down. Clive conks, and Paul, introducing himself, explains to Graeme that he is on the run and needs their help. Graeme agrees to let him come. When Clive fires up , he is not happy about the idea, but is finally brought around. Not long after they depart, a shadowy government agent, Zoil (Jason Bateman), arrives at the site of the crashed auto; he informs his mystical female superior over the radio that he's closing in on Paul, and she urges using local law enforcement as back-up. Zoil then enrolls two inept FBI agents, Haggard (Bill Hader) and O'Reilly (Joe Lo Truglio), to aid in his mission, without telling them the nature of their target.
Paul, Graeme and Clive pulling into a motor park run by Ruth (Kristen Wiig), a Creationist Christian, and her controlling father Moses (John Carroll Lynch). The 3 bond around a fire, and Paul exposes that, ever since he was caught by the government, he had been suggesting them in all way of scientific and sociological accomplishments (including giving Steven Spielberg the idea for E.T.). even so, he discovered that he had outlived his usefulness as a receptacle of cognition, and the government were now thinking to surgically remove Paul's brain in an attempt to harness his abilities. With help from a friend inside Area 51, Paul sent an S.O.S. to his base planet, and his individuals were now en route to pick him up. The government pushed up the schedule for Paul's surgery, however, prompting his rapid escape.
The next morning, Paul unknowingly uncovers himself to Ruth, and then shatters her faith by share-out his knowledge of the universe via paranormal link. The trio are then forced to nobble her and make a hasty escape. At first shocked, Ruth suddenly becomes eager to sin, which she was not allowed to do by her father. She initially doesn't believe Paul, but he cures her eye, as she has been blinded in it since the age of four.
Meantime, Zoil, Haggard and O'Reilly talk to Ruth's father, who claims she was abducted by a 'demon'. Haggard finds a drawing of Paul that Graeme did, and gets questioning of Zoil's motives, peculiarly after he accidentally over-hears Zoil report in over the radio. When Graeme, Clive and Ruth encounter the hunters from earlier, and are saved by Paul, Haggard later has his suspicions confirmed by showing the hunters Graeme's drawing, which elicits a fearful answer.
Whilst breaking in a small townsfolk, O'Reilly accidentally encounters Paul in a funny book store, prompting the foursome to flee. When Haggard and O'Reilly tell Zoil what they saw, he pulls a gun on them, and orders them to return to headquarters, before going after the RV on his own. Contrary to his orders, however, the two FBI agents follow Zoil in the same direction.
Eventually, Paul reveals his purpose to return to the girl whose dog he dashed his ship on and who subsequently saved his life, who is now an old woman, Tara Walton (Blythe Danner). Afterward spending her life goes ridiculed for what she said she saw, Tara seems grateful to see that Paul merely exists. She turns her gas cooker on to make tea, but is interrupted by Haggard and O'Reilly on one side, and Zoil on the other. As the motley crew drives off with Paul, O'Reilly shoots at them, and the petrol fires up, demolishing the house. A winded Zoil tries to follow, but Haggard takes off first, running Moses (who'd also been tracking the RV) off the road, and catching up to the RV. even so, thanks to an error of judgement, Haggard accidentally drives off a cliff, and is seemingly killed, leaving Zoil in hot pursuit. He reassures his superior that he'll have Paul within an hour, but she announces herself tired of waiting, and informs Zoil that she's ordered a military response, inspiring Zoil to shoot his radio.
When Paul, Graeme, Clive, Ruth and Tara arrive at the rendezvous, they set off a signal and wait. Eventually, eerie orange lights show up over the surrounding trees, and everyone considers that it is Paul's race. even so, it is an army helicopter, with 'the Big Guy' (Sigourney Weaver) on board, Zoil's shadowy superior. As she and three troops backing her up go to shoot Paul, Zoil arrives, and it's revealed that he was Paul's inside contact who had helped him to escape. Zoil takes out the men, but is shot in the shoulder. Tara knocks out 'the Big Guy', but Moses appears with a shotgun and shoots Graeme dead. Paul heals him, but inflicts the damage to himself (a possible side effect of his healing powers referred earlier in the film). Paul then breaks, exhausted. For a while, the other theatrical roles stand around his apparently lifeless body sprawled on the grass. Then, coughing, Paul props himself up, having healed himself. 'The Big Guy' recovers consciousness, but is almost immediately crushed by the arriving alien ship. Paul leaves in the ship, and takes Tara with him.
During the credits, Graeme, Clive and Ruth are shown two years later, again at a comic convention, promoting their new mega-successful funny book, "Paul"
Principal photography wrapped on September 9, 2009,[10] with additional scenes filmed in July 2010 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, which was designed to look like the 2010 San Diego comic-Con.[11] After receiving permission to use the funny-Con brand, the settings had to be changed to avoid crowds and extras were used to portray attendees since there had been some issues regarding filming inside San Diego's actual convention center. As a result, only exterior shots of the San Diego Convention Center were filmed on the streets of Downtown, San Diego.
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