Observe and Report

The Foot Fist Way director Jody Hill takes the helm for this Seth Rogen comedy concerning an ambitious mall cop who competes with a seasoned detective to bust an elusive flasher. Make a wrong move at Forest Ridge Mall, and you'll have to answer to no-nonsense security head Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen). ...more

Observe and Report is locked and loaded with laughs, but it isn't your standard Seth Rogen comedy. It's very dark, harboring a shaky unpredictability that separates it from everything that Team Apatow has produced thus far. Rogen's mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is far from normal. He takes his job way too seriously, and his bipolar behavior is near certifiable in its extremism. On Barnhard’s hallowed retail territory, a pervert runs around the mall parking lot ambushing unsuspecting ...more

The mall cop comedy Observe and Report combines goofball shenanigans with a torrid loathing for humanity (and with many, many savage beatings). This weird amalgamation definitely has an upside, because it's probably something you've never seen before. But it also has a downside: namely that it's a little bit schizophrenic, and that all the shameless, full-frontal grossness (not to mention actual, full-frontal male nudity) can be really jarring, especially for viewers who go in expecting a ...more