Paul
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star topology in this photographic film about two British friends who travel to California to assist the famous San Diego Comic Con and then plan to go on a road trip to see various American alien sites . The two alien fanatics happen to run into a genuine - life sentence alien ( voiced bySeth Rogen ) and concord to help him turn tail the Area 51 agentive role , played byJason Bateman .
Paulis full of various mention both referencing tangible - life events like the UFO clang landing place in Roswell or the secretMen in Black , while also referencing scientific discipline fiction film and shows .
Reese’s Pieces
Paul asks for Reese ’s slice when they bar off for bite as they fly the coop away from those trying to overtake Paul . It ’s a small line and Simon Pegg ’s character get up that he does n’t want to forget the Reese ’s Pieces for Paul . Reese ’s Pieces are referenced throughoutE.T. the Extra - Terrestrialas one of E.T. ’s preferred snacks and it ca n’t be a coincidence that Paul asks for the same goody .
Mac And Me
Nick Frost ’s character reference that he has been dreaming of meeting an alien ever since he sawMac and Me . It ’s a rummy deviation from the heavyE.T.references throughout the film when this far inferior knock - off is refer . Mac and Mecame out six geezerhood afterE.T.and basically is the same film asE.T.and did significantly worse at the box berth and in limited review .
Boring Conversation Anyway
Jason Bateman ’s men in blackened type of agent becomes increasingly bilk that he can not enamour up to Paul . He is constantly in contact with his superior , played by Sigourney Weaver , and she is distressed that he has n’t watch the alien yet .
Bateman gets miffed at her trounce him over the radio in his car and decides to shoot the radio . After shooting out the system , he notice that it was a slow conversation anyway , referencing Han Solo ’s line in theStar Warsfranchise .
Star Trek Re-Enactment
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ’s characters begin their post San Diego Comic Con escapade by traveling to the localisation where Captain Kirk fought Gorn in the series . The scene trifle sooner at Comic Con where Simon Pegg bribe a Gorn mask and Nick Frost picks up a lilliputian rock to rack up him over the headland . The camera does a smash soar on Pegg ’s face , just like in the fight fit , when the two see that there are other tourer watching them and they hightail it off .
Sigourney Weaver
This is a reference that no one could have missed unless they were n’t aware of Sigourney Weaver ’s iconic filmography and the easily recognizable characters she ’s portrayed in both the horror and the sci - fi genres . That being said , most of the motion picture she talks to Jason Bateman ’s federal agent over the radiocommunication , and some will have right away recognize her voice while others might have had to wait until her epical entrance .
Phone Home
There are multiple references toE.T. the Extra - Terrestrialthroughout this photographic film , but this is one of the more obvious quotes from the iconic alien film . It ’s a agile line fromSigourney Weaver’scharacter , but she require Jason Bateman ’s recreant federal agent if he think the outlander " phoned home " and is attempt assist after escaping . An right away recognizable quote fromE.T.is when the alien " phones home " to other noncitizen to amount for it .
Star Wars Cantina Band
The radical hide out in a stripe as Kristen Wiig ’s character decide to call her father on a payphone only none of them know that her father and the broker are right on their track . When they take the air into the bar a conversant birdsong is being played by the band specifically it ’s the recognizable cantina strain fromStar Warsthat plays through the entire scene stop in a opposition between all the grapheme .
Men In Black
Paulreferences the Men in Black throughout the movie either referencing thefilm franchisestarring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones about a secret way that takes concern of any alien encounters on Earth . There are also veridical - aliveness mythologies and theories about a underground government agency that has interact with citizenry involved in supposed alien sightings .
Roswell Vs Wyoming
The first shot of the moving-picture show shows Paul clang landing in Wyoming around the same time as the Roswell UFO crash and exotic photos were bring out in existent life . Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ’s character have a mini argument at the get-go of the motion picture about the Roswell crash and how it would n’t make common sense for the government to encompass it up by say the collapse happened in Roswell when it happened somewhere else because why even say there was a crash at all .
Paul Talking To Steven Spielberg
There ’s a scene set in the 1980s where Paul is in Area 51 and has a conversation withSteven Spielbergabout theE.T.film . They peach about Paul ’s ability to heal andSpielbergsays that would be good for his exotic character to have .
Paul says that he ’s influenced most aliens in soda water culture since he crash - landed on Earth and this shot proves it even further .
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