Paul

Paul (2011) is a sci-fi road comedy directed by Greg Mottola — watch it online on iFILM. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost wrote the script and star as Graeme and Clive, two British comic-book geeks who fly to San Diego for Comic-Con and then take an RV tour of UFO landmarks across the American Southwest.

Outside Area 51 they pick up an unscheduled passenger: Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), a wisecracking extraterrestrial who spent sixty years locked in a government facility advising Hollywood on what aliens actually look like. Now he needs a ride to an extraction point — fast. Special Agent Zoil (Jason Bateman) is closing in, and a literal-minded creationist named Ruth (Kristen Wiig) gets pulled into the escape. The film stuffs in references to Close Encounters, E.T., and Aliens, and Steven Spielberg turns up as himself in a brief cameo. Stream Paul (2011) on iFILM.