| Movie DescriptionPaul Blart (Kevin James) is a mild-mannered, occasionally-square, overweight security guard ("officer" in his mind) who works at patrol in a shopping mall called the West Orange Pavilion Mall located in the township of West Orange, New Jersey. He lives with Maya (Raini Rodriguez), his daughter, and his elderly mother (Shirley Knight).
While on patrol at work riding his Segway PT, Blart notices a new wig kiosk and the kiosk's vendor, Amy (Jayma Mays). Back at base Blart has to take the new guy, Veck Simms (Keir O'Donnell), out on a patrol to train him. At the end of Blart's shift, he becomes acquainted with Amy. He escorts her to her car and she invites him to join her, Veck and some friends at American Joe's, a bar located in the mall. Blart accepts and attends the event. However at the event he gets extremely drunk after drinking too much margarita (which he thought was lemonade) during his nacho eating contest with Leon (because the peppers were too hot) and crashes the stage that the band is playing on.
A few days later, on Thanksgiving, Blart feels as though he embarrassed Amy and that she doesn't like him anymore and Maya tries to cheer him up.
On Black Friday at the shopping mall, Amy, Veck and other colleagues are in the bank to cash their paychecks. While a gang full of hijackers (in disguise of Santa's Little Helpers) suddenly hijack through the service entrance and take over the mall, Blart is distracted by playing games in the arcade zone. The hijackers clear the mall and take Amy and other colleagues hostage in the bank. Veck reveals he is the double agent (or ringleader) of the hijackers. Veck plans to use credit card codes to steal $30 million, fly to the Cayman Islands and take the hostages with them.
As Blart leaves the arcade, he realizes the mall has been taken over and calls the police, who show up outside the front entrance of the mall. Police sergeant Howard (Adam Ferrara) instructs him to leave the mall immediately, but when Blart sees Amy's car in the parking lot, he realizes he must return to save her and his friends. SWAT soon arrives and Commander James Kent (Bobby Cannavale), who was a high school athlete who used to bully Blart, takes control of the situation.
Blart is vastly outnumbered and physically outclassed but fights against the gang members (who use various forms of martial arts and parkour techniques) through improvised measures, Maya arrives to bring Paul his dinner, but she is intercepted by the henchmen and taken away to the rest of the hostages. After Blart works his way through all of Veck's underlings, he tries to extract the hostages, but fails and is captured. Veck demands to have the credit card codes and Blart is forced to fling him the phone that contains the codes. Veck escapes with the codes and holds Amy and Maya at gunpoint.
Blart steals the mall's display minivan and chases after Veck with Commander Kent and they soon track Veck to an airport. After a brief fight, Blart cuffs Veck, but Kent pulls a gun on him, revealing that he was working with Veck the whole time. Before Kent shoots Blart, the police arrive in time to shoot and arrest him. The next morning, Maya is proud of her father and Blart gives Amy a birthday card; Amy kisses him. Sergeant Howard offers Blart a job with the West Orange Police, but he decides that his place is protecting the people at the mall with Amy and the rest of his friends. During the end credits, bonus scenes show Blart and Amy getting married in the mall with Paul's family and friends there, riding Segways. |
