Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 cops terrible reviews from critics

IT WOULD be an understatement to say Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 isn’t getting a lot of love. Critics have panned the sequel — and the reviews are hilarious.

IT would be an understatement to say Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 isn’t getting a lot of love.

Because it’s actually getting no love at all over in the US — with critics absolutely panning the follow up to the 2009 original.

In the flick, Kevin James reprises his role of Paul Blart and heads to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter.

And the verdict from critics is he probably should have stayed home.

It’s even been slapped with a zero per cent score on movie review site Rotten Tomatoes.

But a poorly received movie means snarky reviews with lots of fun zingers.

These are our favourites:

Justin Chang, Variety

“Nothing aired by WikiLeaks could possibly be more destructive to Sony’s reputation than the release of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

Kevin James reprises his role of Paul Blart.

Tom Huddleston, TimeOut London

“It’s no surprise that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is a lazy, witless, laugh-free experience. But even by their standards, this is a slog to sit through, so glacially paced that at times it achieves an almost zen-like level of anti-comedy.”

Donald Clarke, The Irish Times

“(It’s) so mordantly witless that it has the quality of a bleak art-house tragedy.”

Mark Harrison, Den of Geek

“ ... There’s nothing — nothing, nothing, nothing — here to make anyone think about a Paul Blart 3.”

The sequel has critics pulling out some zingers.

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo

“If there’s a dark side to being a film critic, folks you better believe this is it.”

Sara Stewart, New York Post

“One elderly woman gets run over by a truck, another gets punched in the stomach. The comic minds at work here are, shall we say, limited.”

David Jenkins, Little White Lies

Jenkins listed “20 things that aren’t quite as bad as Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2”.

His list included: “Twin hangnails,” “biting into a piece of fruit you discover to be rotten, then realise you’re too hungry to care so swallow the spoiled produce” and “when a family pet accidentally swallows a lighter”.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is set to hit Aussie cinemas on April 16 - so you can decide for yourselves.