Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) dir Steve Carr, feat Kevin James as overweight, you guessed it, mall cop.
The music is a throw-away mixture of generic over-the-top Survivor / Bon Jovi / Kiss anthems that mean everything to American viewers, mall rats of a certain age. However there is one standout music cue. Beatles tribute band ELO (and I mean that in a nice way) massive smash 'Mr Blue Sky' accompanies Blart's journey on a 2-wheeled motorised scooter to his mall workplace. Skies are blue, natch, but it's the opening bars that really transport the visuals from the mundane to the ecstatic. The ultra-familiar chugging chords grabbed my short and curlies and I truly got the (intended) message that this loser work-obsessive can dream hisself into a make-believe super reality and achieve those wildest dreams. Which is, of course, what happens in the movie.
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