observe and report

Observe and Report, which stars Seth Rogen as a mall security guard, will be compared to Paul Blart: Mall Cop for obvious reasons, but while watching it, I was thinking of another film:

This adult comedy feels more tonally reminiscent of The Cable Guy, the 1996 Jim Carrey comedy which struggled to balance silly slapstick humour with a dark, imbalanced central character. [Writer-director Jody] Hill has assigned himself an equally difficult task in trying to wring laughs from a man whom we slowly begin to realise is a legitimate threat to those around him.

My review is here.