by Robert Cramer

Created on: October 02, 2009   Last Updated: October 03, 2009

The world has no use for another scared man. Right now, the world needs a f*cking hero.

- Ronnie Barnhardt

Seth Rogen has seemingly been showing up all over the place. Even as I have been watching movies and television which are a few years older, sure enough, Mr Rogen is there. As of late, Seth Rogen is seemingly one of the few remaining bankable comedy actors. Almost everything he has touched has gone on to be loved by fans or become a money making vehicle. That being said, we are looking at the Jody Hill directed, Observe and Report

Now the first thing to take into account is that very closely to each other, there were two different mall cop movies released. This, however, is where those similarities will end. Observe and Report is a dark comedy about a mall cop, Ronnie Barnhardt, portrayed by Seth Rogen, who is a mentally disturbed individual. He takes his job very seriously and commands respect from his back up of men which include John and Matt Yuan who play, get ready, John and Matt Yuen. Genius...Right? Anyways, his first in command is Dennis, played by Michael Pena. These men will with out a doubt, do almost anything to back up security lead Ronnie.

The movie gets going by having a larger man running around the parking lot flashing and yelling at the potential mall patrons. Soon after we meet the object of Ronnie's affection, Brandi, being played by the often enjoyable Anna Faris. Faris plays a self indulged party animal who works at a cosmetic booth inside the mall. Ronnie wants nothing more than to impress Brandi. Along with Ronnie's love for Brandi, Ronnie's other goal in his life is to become a real life police officer, which becomes difficult as Ronnie is not exactly police officer material.

The movie brings the audience for a ride through a few days of Ronnie's life. During this we get to see that Ronnie still lives at home with his mother and really has no other life other than being a mall cop, trying to be a police officer and to win Brandi's affection. We also get a taste of what Ronnie's mom is like. Ronnie's mom is a alcoholic who supports her son in everything which adds to the delusion that Ronnie has more power than he really does. This is put to the test when Detective Harrison is brought in to follow up on this chronic flasher. Harrison is played by Ray Liotta.

Liotta seemingly tolerates Ronnie at the beginning but quickly becomes annoyed as Ronnie continually tries to show his dominance as well as he tends to make life difficult

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