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“The second movie just jumped the shark.'” Entertainment value aside, here are 12 ways that both of these Kevin James comedies score (and miss the mark) in terms of mall-cop accuracy.ġ. “The first movie was way more accurate,” he says. So we invited Bailey, who spent six years patrolling the cobblestone grounds of Boston’s Faneuil Hall, to give us the lowdown on how realistically the films reflect the true shopping-center security experience.
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The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) While the big-picture plotlines of both films are hardly realistic - the original concerned the bumbling-but-dedicated Blart (Kevin James) foil a Black Friday caper while its Part Two has our hero traveling to Las Vegas for a security officers conference, only to inadvertently stumble upon a major art heist - the finer details, according to recovering “mall cop” Bob Bailey, are occasionally (and surprisingly) accurate. (Particularly when you consider that its 2009 predecessor earned just shy of $186 million worldwide.) But given that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, which continues the fictional saga of the beleaguered West Orange, New Jersey security officer, shoplifted a grand total of $23 million during its opening weekend, it’s safe to think that this sequel may soon beget future Blart-istic endeavors. In the pantheon of formidable law-enforcement figures who’ve been immortalized on film, Paul Blart may never measure up to the likes of Wyatt Earp, Eliot Ness, Frank Serpico, or Donnie Brasco.