I've seen a lot of bad movies. Some are fun bad movies. Not this one. There really is nothing at all to like here. Start to finish bad movie with stupid characters, a dim plot, dialog that contains a million F bombs - if you can call it dialog...The only reason I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 is because of Michael Pena's character. He is at least mildly amusing. This movie also features total male frontal nudity, if you didn't see that noted elsewhere. And it is not an attractive male, so don't watch just for that. Don't watch for any reason. Unless maybe you want to punish yourself for some bad behavior or something.

There has to be some irony in the fact that a theatrical mall cop whose role consist of serving the public has done such a disservice to the mental health community. I am a legitimate survivor of mental illness and movies like this are irritating because they become feature films and present stars in the cast, but really it is junk I am glad I didn't pay for it. There was excessive sex, gore, profanity and narcotic use. What kind of message does this send to the youth? There was a moral barista in this film and she is the closest thing you'll come to seeing some decency. This whole vigilante justice system goes to far. There were humorous moments and sort of heart warming ones but it was always undermined by comedy humor is medicine but, sometimes it nice to be able to take it all in why oh why? would often the highlights of the funniness come at the expense of a potentially moving moment in a film that so desperately needed some depth in the cesspool of the shallow end. It doesn't feel like anyone took the time to really study the personas of the characters they were supposed to represent but, only lived up to stereotypes of each one and were consistent with the image of their reputations. I just think more could've been done, the mains character medication is standard and spats of rage or hyper sexuality are closely linked with Bipolar but chances are none of it would present itself like in the film. I wondered at one point how I managed to get through it and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

This is definitely not Seth Rogen's finest moment. And the movie was quite boring and not particularly funny. I didn't even laugh a single time throughout the entire movie.The story takes place in a mall; a mall that is troubled by a deviant flasher. It is up to the mall security to bring a halt to the flasher. Ronnie (played by Seth Rogen) dreams of becoming a police officer and sees the chance of solving the flasher case to be his stepping stone into the police academy.I will say that the jokes kind of fell short and didn't really bring home any punchlines. Truth be told, then I was laughing only when I watched the gag reel. And for a comedy, then it is really a killing blow that the movie itself fails to muster laughs from the audience.Not even Anna Faris or Ray Liotta could save this movie, despite the fact that Ray Liotta was the one with the most memorable performance in this entire movie. Collette Wolfe was also putting on a good performance, just a shame that she didn't have a bigger role."Observe and Report" is not a particularly good movie, and there are far better movies out there if you enjoy comedies.

On the surface, Observe and Report looks like the sort of cynical black comedy your parents would love to hate. Yet to my surprise I found it to be a movie of genuine substance. Rather than just giving me another reason to laugh at the chaos of life, it sneakily suggests an uncomfortable truth - that maybe everything is not meaningless, and maybe, just maybe, there is still something of value worth fighting for in this superficial pre-packaged life. When you "get" this movie, you realise it's not the post-modern mental chewing gum kids want, but rather a twisted but moral tale that parents should cheer... and it's this fact that made me laugh the most. This is a clever, interesting movie that betrays the expectations of the modern liberal audience - and I think this is why so many critics have panned it. They just wanted mental chewing gum, but got mental All-Bran instead. Observe and Report is a smirking, cynical tale about a typical "white trash" guy that few people have respect for, someone altogether forgettable and easy to mock - the mall security guard. Ronnie is the typical mall security guard supervisor, someone we know and generally dislike - a jumped up pseudo-cop who's modicum of power gives him a sense of excess, undeserved pride. Ronnie starts off as the fairly pathetic nobody we expect him to be - and we laugh at his antics. Yet despite his weaknesses, obsessions and sad life, Ronnie slowly proves himself to be someone bigger than he should be, and it's all because he believes in something genuinely good and real. Regardless of his borderline insanity, by the end, his stand for what he believes in earns him something we all want - respect and meaning in life. This movie cleverly takes us from using our own prejudices to laugh at Ronnie (as most movies do), to uncomfortably realising that maybe we suck for having these prejudices, because Ronnie, despite his own prejudices, limitations, and crappy life, actually believes in (and acts on) something good - and this alone makes him a valuable human being. So what if his achievements are small. So what is his life has its crappy parts. So what if he's borderline delusional. Ronnie has a belief in something that valuable to others... and in the end, he wins.There are enough reviews out there giving details of this movie's plot, so I won't get it that much. I just wanted to let you know that Observe and Report is on the surface a black, post-modern comedy, but underneath it's a story using a theme we all love, delivered in its own quirky way - the little guys overcomes adversity, takes up the challenge and in the end, wins the girl and the respect of his peers. I really enjoyed this movie and look forward to watching it again. If you like black humour and character-driven drama that doesn't pull its punches then you will really enjoy Observe and Report.