History Film / PaulBlartMallCop

* CompanyCrossReferences / ShoutOut: In his keynote speech at the security convention, Paul gives a nod to Film/SpiderMan, a Marvel superhero that Sony Pictures owns the film rights for.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: As Veck drives away with Amy and Maya away, Kent joins Blart with rescuing them and capturing Veck, suggesting a [[HeelFaceTurn]] from the one who bullied Blart back in high school. But once Blart successfully defeats Veck, Kent is revealed to have been in Veck's plans all along when he puts him on gunpoint.]]

* CompanyCrossReference / ShoutOut: In his keynote speech at the security convention, Paul gives a nod to Film/SpiderMan, a Marvel superhero that Sony Pictures owns the film rights for.

** Aversion, sort of: one of the mall merchants gives Blart a bottle of hot sauce "to cheer him up." The observant viewer will expect him to use it later as a weapon against the bad guys. He tries, but it doesn't work.
*** To be fair, it DID work, he just failed to act properly on the occasion. Lampshaded by Paul Blart himself.
** Even Paul's time on that obstacle course comes up towards the end.

** Veck Sims himself is a mall cop variation of this trope in that he became a mall cop trainee (essentially the mall cop equivalent of a rookie cop) only to get information so that he can rob the place with his gang.

%%* BingeMontage

%%* DancePartyEnding

%%* HoldMyGlasses

%%* TheMall

* MookHorrorShow Subtle example. While going on a tirade, Veck sees the skateboard of one his mooks roll in. He calms down and nervously shuts the door.

%%* RoleCalled

A sequel was released in 2015. In the sequel, Blart attends a security convention in Las Vegas, only to stumble upon an art heist.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Veck]] about a third of the way through the movie. Amy is not impressed. [[spoiler: Also the SWAT guy]].

* InsultBackfire: There are several, all played for laughs.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Played with. Blart trains [[spoiler: Veck]] to be a security guard, early in the film, but he later realizes that [[spoiler: Veck was only trying to be one for a while just to help his goons study the mall so that they can carry out his evil plan]].

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Stuart, the JerkAss pen salesman. He sells Amy up the river about hiding her cell phone when Veck simply ''yells at him''.]]

* InsultBackFire: There are several, all played for laughs.

* MookHorrorShow" Subtle example. While going on a tirade, Veck sees the skateboard of one his mooks roll in. He calms down and nervously shuts the door.

* PapaWolf: Paul ups his game when Vic threatens his daughter.

*** Also, the SWAT team never does anything but stay outside the mall until the end. [[spoiler: justified in that their commander is actually the real leader of the thieves]].

* ShutUpHannibal: This could be an interpretation of the [[spoiler:true]] villain getting shot by the head of security.

* TortureAlwaysWorks: All it takes is Veck shouting for one of the hostages to give up important information. Everyone else just looks at the hostage in disgust to which the hostage replies, "Wow, he's good, he's a pro."

* ShutUpHannibal: This could an interpretation of the [[spoiler:true]] villain getting shot by the head of security.

* CrazyPrepared: Ever since the first incident, Paul has outfitted Maya with tools in case she ever got abducted again (from giving her a copper wire to pick locks and ''a hidden switchblade'').

This all changes when a bunch of foolhardy bank robbers make a bid to pull a heist on the busiest shopping day of the year. Paul finds himself [[ClosedCircle trapped inside]] and forced to do battle with the violent criminals, utilizing [[DieHardOnAnX his own skills, bravery and knowledge of the mall layout to undermine their plans]] to rescue the hostages, including his girlfriend Amy Anderson (Jayma Mays) and his daughter Maya (Rani Rodriguez).

!!This movie provides examples of:

* HappyEndingOverride: The first five minutes or so of the sequel basically undo every good thing that happened to Paul in the first movie, then lay on some more trouble for good measure.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Much of the movie was filmed in Burlington, MA, about fifteen miles from Boston. (The mall there is one of the biggest in the area.)

This all changes when a bunch of foolhardy bank robbers make a bid to pull a heist on the busiest shopping day of the year. Paul finds himself [[ClosedCircle trapped inside]] and forced to do battle with the violent criminals, utilizing [[DieHardOnAnX his own skills, bravery and knowledge of the mall layout to undermine their plans]]. In addition he has to save a LoveInterest and his daughter held hostage.

* CoolCar: It's not a car. But the fact Kevin Bacon can make riding a Segway look even remotely cool is something of a miracle.

--> Paul: Nobody wins with a headbutt.

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''Paul Blart: Mall Cop'' is a light-hearted comedy released in 2009, starring Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a portly, kindhearted security guard who after failing to realize his dream of becoming a law-enforcement officer due to his hypoglycemia, Paul instead becomes a well-known figure at TheMall and plans to retake the police entrance exam he once failed. Despite no one showing him any respect and having no real legal authority, he treats his job seriously and makes an effort to enforce orderly shopper conduct whenever possible.