Paul is a 2011 comic science fiction road film directed by Greg Mottola from a screenplay by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Starring Pegg and Frost, with the voice and motion capture of Seth Rogen as the titular character, the film follows two science fiction geeks who come across an alien. Together, they help the alien escape from the Secret Service agents who are pursuing him so that he can return to his home world. The film is a parody of other science-fiction films, especially those of Steven Spielberg, as well as of science fiction fandom in general.

It is a British-American venture produced by Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Big Talk Pictures and Relativity Media, and distributed by Universal Pictures. Paul was released on 14 February 2011 in the United Kingdom and on 18 March 2011 in the United States to generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $98 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.

Plot

Best friends Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings are British comic book and sci-fi enthusiasts who travel to the United States to attend the annual San Diego Comic-Con. The two embark on a road trip through the Southwestern U.S. to visit UFO sites on a remote desert highway at night. After a brush with homophobic rednecks at a diner, they watch a car driving erratically and crashing. They stop to offer assistance to the driver, who is revealed to be an alien named Paul. Graeme agrees to give a ride to Paul, despite Clive fainting and wetting his pants upon seeing him.

Later, Special Agent Zoil of the Secret Service arrives at the car-crash site, informing his unseen female superior, the Big Guy , that he is closing in on Paul. She sends rookies Haggard and O Reilly to assist. Clive remains paranoid over Paul s intentions, considering his appearance evidence of a conspiracy, until Paul tells them the government fed his image to the public to keep them from panicking if anyone encounters his race. They later camp at an RV park run by Christian fundamentalists, one-eyed Ruth Buggs and her father Moses. The next day, when Ruth sees Paul, she faints, so they take her with them. During an argument, Paul convinces Ruth to question her beliefs and uses his healing power to cure her blind eye.

They stop at a bar and Ruth calls her father, but Zoil intercepts the call. Ruth is accosted by the rednecks and a bar fight ensues. They escape when Paul terrifies the rednecks into fainting. Later, at another RV park, Ruth is questioned by Agent Zoil, but plays dumb and escapes. Meanwhile, Haggard and O Reilly have figured out about Paul. When they confront Zoil, he orders them to return to base, but they go behind his back and try to catch the alien on their own.

The group soon arrives at Tara s, who rescued Paul when he crashed on Earth 60 years ago, accidentally killing her dog (hence Paul s name) in the crash (opening scene). As no-one believed her story, she has spent her life as a pariah. Although angry at first, she forgives Paul and prepares to make tea for her visitors. Haggard, O Reilly and Zoil arrive and surround the house. The group flee but O Reilly shoots at them, igniting gas from Tara s stove and destroying her house with him inside. Haggard pursues and catches up to the RV but loses control and drives off a cliff. Zoil reassures the Big Guy that he will have Paul within the hour but tired of waiting, she orders a military response .

Paul, Graeme, Clive, Ruth and Tara arrive at Devils Tower National Monument, where they set off fireworks to signal Paul s mothership. A helicopter suddenly arrives with agents and the Big Guy. Zoil appears and initiates a stand-off, unexpectedly shooting the agents, before being wounded. He is revealed to be Paul s friend, attempting to aid his escape under the guise of capturing him. During the fight, Tara knocks out the Big Guy. Moses arrives unexpectedly and fires at Paul, but hits Graeme instead. Paul once again uses his healing powers, reviving Graeme in spite of the danger to himself, causing Moses to believe Paul to be a messiah.

Graeme and Ruth admit their feelings for each other and kiss, but the Big Guy regains consciousness and holds the group at gunpoint. Just as she is about to kill them, she is crushed by the landing transport ship. Paul says goodbye to his friends and offers Tara a chance to go with him, promising to give her a new life after ruining her childhood and accidentally killing her dog. The aliens go home as the remaining humans wave. Two years later, Graeme, Clive and Ruth are at another Comic-Con, where Graeme and Clive are promoting their new bestselling novel titled Paul.

Cast

• Simon Pegg as Graeme Willy
• Nick Frost as Clive Gollings
• Seth Rogen as Paul (voice and motion capture)
• Jason Bateman as Special Agent Lorenzo Zoil. Describing his character as an exaggerated nasty guy , Bateman based his portrayal of Zoil on Yaphet Kotto in Midnight Run and Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. His name is a play-on of the film, Lorenzo s Oil (1992).
• Kristen Wiig as Ruth Buggs
• Bill Hader as Agent Haggard
• Blythe Danner as Tara Walton Mia Stallard as Young Tara Walton
• Mia Stallard as Young Tara Walton
• Joe Lo Truglio as Agent O Reilly
• John Carroll Lynch as Moses Buggs, Ruth s father
• Jane Lynch as Pat Stevens
• David Koechner as Gus, a redneck whom Graeme and Clive first encounter in a Nevada gas station.
• Jesse Plemons as Jake, Gus s friend.
• Sigourney Weaver as The Big Guy . In an interview with Graham Norton, Weaver stated: It s a love letter to sci-fi fans. I jumped at the chance to be in it. To find a comedy that also pays homage to sci-fi is a dream come true.
• Syd Masters as himself, singing cowboy on stage
• Jeffrey Tambor as Adam Shadowchild, a famous science fiction writer
• Steven Spielberg as Himself (voice)

In an interview for the DVD release of Paul, Pegg and Frost said they made the film to demonstrate their love for Steven Spielberg s films Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, as well as their favourite science-fiction films. After they mentioned the project to Spielberg, he suggested he might make a cameo appearance, and a scene was added to include him as a voice on a speakerphone in 1980 discussing ideas with Paul for his soon-to-become box office hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. According to Robert Kirkman, he, along with Invincible co-creator Cory Walker and Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, had a cameo in the film as the Big Guy s henchmen.

Production

The idea for Paul came from Pegg and Frost in 2003, while they were filming Shaun of the Dead. To help with the script, Pegg and Frost went on their own road trip across America and used ideas from it to add to the script. According to Mottola, the film was given the green light shortly before the late 2000s recession; if it had been delayed, they probably wouldn’t have made the movie. The budget for the film was around US$40 million. Principal photography, including 50 days in the New Mexico desert, wrapped on 9 September 2009, with additional scenes filmed in July 2010 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, which was designed to look like the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con. During filming, Joe Lo Truglio was a stand-in for the character Paul, the only character who was created by CGI, although Seth Rogen, the voice of Paul did some motion capture in preproduction during postproduction. The cover art for the fictional comic book Encounter Briefs was drawn by alternative comics artist Daniel Clowes.

Release

A teaser trailer for the film was released on 18 October 2010. The film had its world premiere in London on 7 February 2011.

Home media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2011, and was released in North America on 9 August 2011. Three versions of the film were made. The DVD release features an audio commentary with director Greg Mottola, stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Hader, and producer Nira Park; two featurettes; Simon s Silly Faces ; photo galleries; storyboards and posters; and a blooper reel. The United States Blu-ray release features all the DVD supplements with nine more featurettes and a digital copy.

Reception

Box office

Paul grossed $37.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $63.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $98 million.

In North America, Paul opened on March 18, 2011 alongside Limitless and The Lincoln Lawyer. It went on to debut to $13 million, finishing fifth at the box office.

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 70% based on 207 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The website s critical consensus reads, It doesn t measure up to Pegg and Frost s best work, but Paul is an amiably entertaining — albeit uneven — road trip comedy with an intergalactic twist. On Metacritic, the film received a score of 57 based on 37 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale.

Empire rated the film excellent (four stars out of five), stating, Broader and more accessible than either Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, Paul is pure Pegg and Frost — clever, cheeky, and very, very funny. You ll never look at E.T. in the same way again. SFX also gives the film four stars out of five, saying, the film veers dangerously close to alienating (no pun intended) all but its geek core audience, the more obvious concessions to a mainstream crowd never enough to derail the film s laugh-a-minute ride ; SFX also calls it a triumph of visual effects, convincing characterisation and bad taste humour. Peter Bradshaw gave the film two stars out of five and called it a goofy, amiable piece of silliness exhibiting self-indulgence and possessing a distinct shortage of real gags . On the same scale Nigel Andrews gave the film only one star, calling it a faltering extraterrestrial knockabout . The Independent grades the film two stars out of five, saying, Pegg is likeable as usual, Frost more doltish than usual, and Kristen Wiig an appealing convert from Bible thumper to ladette , and notes that from time to time, clever ideas rear their heads – like the idea that Paul has been the brains behind all science-fiction and UFO initiatives for the last 30 years, including Close Encounters and The X-Files – but they soon return to the film s default setting of laddish japes and a conviction that the word cocksucker will always get a laugh.

IGN provided Paul with three reviews. The first gave the film three stars, stating, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost send up everything from Star Wars to E.T. in this sci-fi comedy … As with Pegg and Frost s previous films together, it s derivative stuff, the plot similar to countless sci-fi flicks of the past; paying homage to the good and gently ribbing the bad. Less excited was their review for the British Blu-ray version, which said, But unlike previous Pegg and Frost collaborations – Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – Paul does not generously reward repeat viewing. That s not to say it s a bad film at all; it has a strong central premise, which carries much of the film, loveable central characters, the odd neat idea (it turns out that Paul inspired all major works of SF post-1950, from Close Encounters to The X-Files, and has a direct line to Steven Spielberg), and a couple of genuine laughs, but it never feels more than a rough sketch of a bigger, much funnier movie. In a second review for the American Blu-ray version, IGN compared the movie with Galaxy Quest and wrote that it is richly layered with clever homage, a refreshingly original alien hero, delightfully entertaining characters and great performances from our leads and their supporting players.

Upon its release in the United States, Roger Ebert gave Paul a mixed review of two and a half stars out of four, saying it is a movie that teeters on the edge of being really pretty good and loses its way. I m not sure quite what goes wrong, but you can see that it might have gone right. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote: As genial, foolish and demographically engineered as it sounds (hailing all fan boys and girls), Paul is at once a buddy flick and a classic American road movie of self (and other) discovery, interspersed with buckets of expletives and some startling (especially for a big-studio release) pokes at Christian fundamentalism … The movie has its attractions, notably Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost (and of course Mr. Bateman), whose ductile, (noncomputer) animated and open faces were made for comedy … Paul proves the weak link. One problem is that Mr. Rogen, however comically inclined, has become overexposed, and there’s just something too familiar and predictable about this voice coming out of that body. Yet while Paul seems great conceptually, he s not particularly interesting or surprising, despite a funny recap of what he’s been doing on his time on Earth. With his vibe and vocabulary, shorts and weed, juvenilia and sentimentality, Paul turns out to be not much different from a lot of guys who have wreaked comedy havoc on American screens lately, even if this one only wants to beam up, not knock up.

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2011	National Movie Award	Best Comedy		Won
2012	Annie Award	Character Animation in a Live Action Production	Michael Hull David Lowry	Nominated
2012	Visual Effects Society Award	Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture	Anders Beer, Julian Foddy, Jody Johnson, David Lowry	Nominated

Soundtrack

Paul: Music from the Original Motion Picture was released on 21 February 2011 by Universal Music. It intersperses David Arnold s score with the rock songs appearing in the film.

All tracks are written by David Arnold, except as noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performer(s)	Length
1.	Paul Opening Title		David Arnold	1:56
2.	Another Girl, Another Planet (from The Only Ones, 1978)	Peter Perrett	The Only Ones	3:00
3.	Road Trip Number 1		David Arnold	0:57
4.	Just the Two of Us	Withers, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter	Bill Withers and Grover Washington, Jr.	3:57
5.	Passport		David Arnold	1:18
6.	Road Trip Number 2		David Arnold	1:34
7.	Flying Saucers Rock N Roll (single, 1957)	Harold Ray Scott	Billy Lee Riley	2:02
8.	Window Shopping		David Arnold	0:51
9.	Hello It s Me (from Something/Anything?, 1972)	Rundgren	Todd Rundgren	4:20
10.	End of the Road Trip		David Arnold	1:38
11.	Dancing in the Moonlight (from Dancing In The Moonlight, 1973)	Sherman Kelly	King Harvest	2:56
12.	Campfire Confession		David Arnold	1:24
13.	Got to Give It Up (from Live at the London Palladium, 1977)	Gaye	Marvin Gaye	6:01
14.	A Little Talk with Paul		David Arnold	1:21
15.	I Chase the Devil (from War Ina Babylon, 1976)	Lee Perry, Romeo	Max Romeo	3:22
16.	Chase		David Arnold	1:18
17.	Cantina Band	John Williams	Syd Masters & The Swing Riders	3:42
18.	You Gotta Try		David Arnold	2:51
19.	1st Contact		David Arnold	1:17
20.	Planet Claire (from The B-52 s, 1979)	Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland	The B-52 s	4:33
21.	Goodbye (It s a Little Awkward)		David Arnold	4:42
22.	All Over the World (from Xanadu, 1980)	Jeff Lynne	Electric Light Orchestra	4:05

Possible sequel

Pegg has stated that he would like to do a sequel to Paul, titled Pauls, but that the time and expense it would take means it is unlikely to happen unless costs decrease. On August 13, 2021 during a live stream on Instagram, Pegg stated that there was no chance of a sequel.

Year	2011
ReleaseDate	2011-03-18
RuntimeMins	104
RuntimeStr	1h 44min
Plot	Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.
Awards	Awards, 2 wins & 9 nominations
Directors	Greg Mottola
Writers	Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Stars	Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen
Produced by	Tim Bevan,Liza Chasin,Eric Fellner,Robert Graf,Debra Hayward,Nira Park,Adam Schardein,Natascha Wharton
Music by	David Arnold
Cinematography by	Lawrence Sher
Film Editing by	Chris Dickens
Casting By	Allison Jones
Production Design by	Jefferson Sage
Art Direction by	Richard Fojo
Set Decoration by	Carla Curry
Costume Design by	Nancy Steiner
Makeup Department	Georgia Allen,Enid Arias,Jeri Baker,Mary Burton,Berlinda Cantu-Lewis,Tarra D. Day,Carmen L. Jones,Natasha Ladek,Bonnie Masoner,Nina Paskowitz,Geordie Sheffer,Alicia M. Tripi,Jane Walker,Nathalie Allen,Elizabeth Gallegos,Jennifer Jane,Vanessa Jaramillo,Greg Nicotero,Angelique Ortiz,Ashlynne Padilla,Sheila Trujillo
Production Management	Tania Blunden,Karen Ruth Getchell,Robert Graf,Ann Lynch,Michelle Wright
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Ryan Craig,Valerie Johnson,Denise Anderson Poore,Lynn Struiksma,Jonathan Watson
Art Department	Ruben J. Acuna,William J. Albarez,J. Todd Anderson,Gregorio Aragon,Steve Arnold,Ulrike Auer-Erdoes,James Barth,Thomas J. Barton,David Benavides,Mike Bertolina,Mike Blaze,Kurt Blondis,Fritz Buckley,Kyle Caraway,Daniel Carey,Steve Chapman,Matt Chavez,Victor Chavez,Lance Cheatham,Dennis Collins,Cliff J. Crouch,Rocky De la Vega,Meliton Duran,Brad Einhorn,Loyd Jim Ellis,Lyn Gawron,John Gibson,Enrique Gomez,Doug Gray,Damon Green,Graham Griswold,Wellyem Guerra,Daniel L. Herrera,Daniel Holloway,Mary Holyoke,Virginia Hopkins,Richard Hughes,Dexter Ing,Robert Jackson,Arlen Johnson,Caylen Johnson,Jacob Johnson,Lorin Johnson,Steve Kahn,Lance Kelly,Jeffrey Lamm,Ellen Lampl,Nikki LeBlanc,Scot Leczel,Michael Longueira,Amahl Lovato,Jason Mack,Michael Maloney,William Maloney,Preston Malott,Christopher Martin,Jerry Martinez,Carlos Mata,Abbie D. McCreary,David McQuade,Robert Rick Mobbs,Sergio Murillo,Kirk Newren,David O Gradey,James F. Oberlander,Jesus Ornelas,Palemon Ornelas,Jesus M. Ornellas Jr.,Kenneth Pattison,Julie Peters-Haymes,David W. Phillips,Eduardo Reyes,Zacheriah T. Rheam,Tanana Rivera,Sarah Robinson,Siobhan Roome,Sebastian Rutkowsky Ruiz,Randy Severs,John Shane,Phil Shirey,Scott Shordon,Jaime Souza,Michael Spader,Spencer Stair,Travis Stroope,Mike W. Sullivan,Andrew Terry,Lia Thompson Roldan,David Thompson,Angelo Tomarchio,Drew Toops,Joseph A. Torres,Robert Valverde,Alex Otter Vernon,Steve Vigil,Brian Wike,Big John Willis,Chris Windisch Jr.,Christopher Windisch,Ted Wolff,Colin Zaug,Jill Dupont,Philippe Gaulier,Amy Giedraitis,Linda R. Gore,Melissa Harrison,Erik Keeling-Torrez,Nikolai Loveikis,Rick Mobbs,Dennis Riewerts,Lawrence Tolle
Sound Department	Dafydd Archard,Chris Burdon,Peter Burgis,Kay Colvin,Doug Cooper,Pud Cusack,Nick Del-Molino,Simon Gershon,Arthur Graley,Randall L. Johnson,Julian Kurland,Peter F. Kurland,Gerard Loret,Rich Lovell,Richard Lovell,Ben Meechan,Zak Melemendjian,Markus Moll,Dan Morgan,Beauxregard Neylen,Keith Partridge,Mark Paterson,Jeremy Price,Michael Russo,Julian Slater,Barnaby Smyth,Jason Stevens,Andrew Stirk,Ruth Sullivan,Sven Taits,Wade Barnett,Simon Diggins,Jerry Gilbert,Peter Gleaves,Adam Horley,Gareth Rhys Jones,Nick Kray,Travis MacKay,Ric Schnupp,James Shannon,Julian Slater,John St. Denis,Andy Stallabrass
Special Effects by	Larz Anderson,Brent Baker,Roland Blancaflor,Darin Bouyssou,Steve Cremin,Paul Deely,Dennis Dion,Mary Elizalde,Mike Elizalde,Chris Garnaas,Scott Hastings,Joel Hobbie,Taishiro Kiya,Junko Komori,Maria Kruse,Steve Kuzela,Tim Larsen,Danny Maldanado,Cass McClure,James Patterson,Constantine Sekeris,Mario Torres Jr.,Brian Walsh,Dennis Yeager II
Visual Effects by	Diccon Alexander,Dan Lindskov Andersen,Kris Anderson,Edward Andrews,Arild Anfinnsen,Oliver Atherton,Michael Atkin,Jörg Baier,Andy Bean,Susanne Becker,Anders J.L. Beer,Cayley Bell,Jennifer C. Bell,Michael Bell,Stephen Bennett,Thomas Biller,Matthew Borneman,Stephen Borneman,Joseph Boyle,James Braid,Paul Brannan,Lester Brown,Nik Brownlee,Sylvain Brugnot,Robert Brumby,Eamonn Butler,Kamelia Chabane,Vincent Chang,Janson Chew,Julian Chong,Karen Clarke,Roberto Clochiatti,Kia Coates,Ian Copeland,Hal Couzens,Alastair Crawford,Ed Cross,Ingrid-Elin Dahl-Olsen,Francesca Dare,Markus Daum,Rupert Davies,Robert Deas,Max Decroix,David Denley,Kaori Doi,Yoav Dolev,Miles Drake,Seth Dubieniec,Tom Edwards,Favian Ee,Yasmine El-Ghamrawy,Huw J. Evans,Theo Facey,Muhammad Faizal,Ellie Faustino,Andy Feery,Julian Foddy,James Foster,William Foulser,Julien Fourvel,Federico Frassinelli,Gianluca Fratellini,David Fuhrer,Howard Fuller,John J. Galloway,Philippe Gaulier,Richard Gavin,Riccardo Gemelli,Adam Glasman,Ramiro Gomez,Joel Green,Sharna Hackett,Andy Hague,Sam Hanover,Pete Hanson,Ryu Harada,Gareth Harbuz,Neil Harrison,Will Harrower,Haji Hassan,Aeon Henderson,Ben Hicks,Tom Hocking,Natalie Homewood,Alex Hope,Pete Howlett,David Hyde,Matthew Jacques,Jody Johnson,Pete Jopling,Simon Kay,Volodymyr Kazantsev,Yuko Kimoto,Marcin Kolendo,Jayzica Kong,Valdone Koronczi,Sylvia Kratzsch,Dan Kripac,Andix Lai,Grant Laker,Terence Lam,Joe Lamont-Fisher,Kirsty Lawlor,Josh Lawson,Mat Leach,Matthew Leach,Daniel Leatherdale,David Lebrun,Zhihong Leo,Francis Leong,Darryl Li,William Lin Jiahui,Chi Kwong Lo,Leah Low,David Lowry,Megan Lu,Thomas Luff,Viet Luu,Michael Lyle,Aysha Madina,Howard Margolius,Scott Marriott,Will Martindale,Chris McLaughlin,Andre Metello,Mark Michaels,Andy Middleton,Thomas Middleton,Sangita Mistry,Alice Mitchell,Alberto Montañés,Trevor Murphy,Tristan Myles,Jens Mårtensson,Lucie Ostrer,Gruff Owen,Graham Page,Daniel Pastore,Enrik Pavdeja,Cheewei Peh,Laurie Pellard,Luis Pereira,Adrian Pinder,Andrea Pirisi,Fred Place,Siobhan Platten,Laurence Priest,Scott Pritchard,Ed Pulis,Sonny Pye,Nigel Rafter,Chua Raymond,Julia Reinhard,James Roberts,Wesley Roberts,Tom Rolfe,Austin Ronald,Trina M. Roy,Timothy Russell,Olivier Ryard,Olle Rydberg,Matt Sadler,Lucy Salter,Udhaya Sankar,Markus Schmidt,Markus Schneider,Robert Seaton,Tim Shim,Andrew Simmonds,Daniel Smollan,Dan Snape,Paul Venn Stirling,Mary Stroumpouli,Jonathan Styles,Giuseppe Tagliavini,Alex John Tan,Jeffrey Tan,Raymond Tan,Chris Tay,Lee Tibbetts,Kim Tobin,Chris Tomkins,Eric Tsui,Helga Victoria,Carlo Volpati,Victor Wagner,Ellen Walder,Ross Lee Wilkinson,Amielia Williams,Annie V. Wong,Xiong Ying,Joel Aguilar,Jillian Arnold,Fiorenza Bagnariol,Keziah Bailey,Daniel Baldwin,Luke Ballard,Adam Barnett,Luke Bigley,Paul Boyd,Bruce Buckley,Richard Burnside,Thomas J. Burton,Paul Chapman,Michael Connor,Dayne Cowan,Charlie H. Ellis,Alison Farmer,Jay Fleming,Edwin Gamez,Justin Geoffroy,Maurizio Giglioli,Ana Gomes,Katie Goodwin,Amélie Guyot,Chris Hart,Kristine-Joeann Jasper,Daniel Jeantou,Adam Jhani-Stephens,Chris Keller,Asim Khan,Dan Kunz,Yaocheng Lam,Robbie Lee,Skeel Lee,Frederik Lillelund,Mike Litzenberg,Taz Lodder,Kim Lim Loo,Raj Mahendran,Lilly Heart Marriott,Mark Masson,Gurel Mehmet,Chris Mello,James Mulholland,Paul Nendick,Shi Hua Ng,Stella Hui Sze Ng,John O Lone,John Palmer,Nizhen Phang,Nes Pinsuwan,Dennis Pontanares,Simon Pynn,Sam Reed,Fanny Roche,Sam Schwier,Phil Smith,Petter Steen,Frederick George Stuhrberg,Junaid Syed,Eldred Tjie,Marie Tollec,Kat Tysoe,Quentin van den Bossche,Nick van Diem,Vanessa Velasquez,Patrick Woo,Ryan John Woodward
Stunts	Elle Alexander,Dean Bailey,Donny Bailey,Bruce Benson,Robert Anthony Brass,Mark Brooks,Bobby Burns,Laurence Chavez,Ed Duran,Debbie Evans,Eddie Fiola,Cory Fleming,Tait Fletcher,Al Goto,Tad Griffith,Nate Harris,Michael R. Long,Angelique Midthunder,Rich Minga,Darrin Prescott,Suzanne Prescott,Tanner Prescott,Derick Pritchard,Scott Rogers,Jimmy Romano,Rich Rutherford,Trina E. Siopy,Sonny Surowiec,Willie Weber,Tyler Williams,Elle Alexander,Craig Baxley Jr.,Michael R. Long,Chris Palermo,Tanner Prescott,Mam Smith
Camera and Electrical Department	Phillip Abeyta,Mark Anderson,Troy Anderson,Adam Barth,Nick Behrmann,Chris Bennett,Jeff Bettis,James M. Black,William Buckingham III,Chip Byrd,Erick Castillo,Michael A. Chavez,Tristan Chavez,Tim Christie,Oliver Clark,Sean Patrick Crowell,Jeff Cutter,Julie Donovan,Harland Espeset,George Estill,Benjamin Estrada,Mike D. Fernandez,David Ghegan,Daniel C. Gold,John Gorman,Bryan G. Haigh,Ian Hanna,Adam Harrison,Derek Johnson,John Joyce,Dylan Kelling,John Koth,Charles C. Lee,Chris Lee,Lucas P. Leggio,Brian Malone,John Marshall McLeod,Mark Mele,Glenn E. Moran,Lee Nakagawa,Charlie Newberry,David B. Nowell,Clayton Null,Mark O Flahavan,Ray Ortega,Alex Perez,Mike Pesce,Philip C. Pfeiffer,Jessica Ramos,Brooks Robinson,Nick Shuster,Jason Smith,Josh Stancil,Calvin Starnes,Eric Steinig,Mark Steinig,George Stephenson,Eric Stillions,Brian Thomas,Jorn Vylonis,Jarred Waldron,Wilson Webb,Cody West,Scott Wetzel,Dwayne Willis,Paul Crow Willis,Jeff Anderson,Greg Baldi,Mike Barnett,Kenneth Coblentz,Phillip Crosby,Jesse Crusing,Dwight Dollins,Raphael Freud,Jimmy Hammond,Tom Hutchinson,Jason Linebaugh,Damon Marcellino,Sean McClellan,Dave Midthunder,Jeremy Antonio Oliver,George Peters,Brice Reid,Rob Salviotti,Mark Sheets,Paul Snell,Michael Stumpf,Luigi Ventura,Dwayne Willis,Aaron G. York
Animation Department	Chiara Antelmi,Amedeo Beretta,Eamonn Butler,August Alondra Davies,Gianluca Fratellini,Aldo Gagliardi,Gabriel Gelade,Patrick Giusiano,Elizabeth Gray,Nicolas Gueroux,Hugo Hernandez,Jason Herschaft,Scott Holmes,Michael Hull,Arne Kaupang,Stafford Lawrence,David Lowery,Jonathan Macintosh,Jason Martinsen,Nathan McConnel,Andrew McEvoy,Daniele Mieli,Gwilym Morris,Prothais Nicolas,Emanuele Pavarotti,David S. Peng,Nigel Rafter,Terence P. Reilly,Darren Rodriguez,In-Ah Roediger,Jeff Schanz,Nicolas Seck,James Wilson,Alli Sadegiani
Casting Department	Abigail Barbier,Jo Edna Boldin,Louis Elman,Elizabeth Gabel,Ben Harris,Joseph Hicks,Peter John Kousakis,David Kramer,Hannah Macpherson,Marie A.K. McMaster,Christina Ortega,Rebecca Stover,Alex Castillo,Bryan Chacon,Amelia Salas
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Pilar Agoyo,Amelia Buhrman,Sarah Byrden,Debra Chapman,Bren Cook,Emily Egge,Sharon Fauvel,Vita Gavrylyuk,Adrienne Greshock,Juliet Hyde-White,Linda Matthews,Carlane Passman,Claire Sandrin,Paul Sinnott,Jennifer Starzyk,Allyson Traub,Jesse Trevino,Phillip Boutte Jr.,Wynema Chavez,Carrie Dacre,Liz Larson,Erich A. Muller
Editorial Department	Trevor Brown,Charlotte Dean,Catriona Delbridge,Rob Farris,Amy Gill,Adam Glasman,Emily Greenwood,Patrick Malone,Lucy Mitra,Mark Sachen,Aurora Shannon,Laurent Treherne,Vincent Polidoro,Tatjana Rhodes
Location Management	Chris Baugh,Austin Christensen,S. Todd Christensen,Granville Greene,Chee Ho,Eric Klosterman,Marcus Montano,Duffy Taylor,Justin T. Williams
Music Department	Nick Angel,David Arnold,Chris Barrett,Mark Berrow,Richard Bissill,John Bradbury,Jo Buckley,Paul Clarvis,Chris Cozens,Fiona Cruickshank,Nicholas Dodd,Dina Eaton,Geoff Foster,Julian Jackson,Kirsten Lane,Steve Mair,Cynthia Millar,Andy Parker,John Parricelli,Tom Pigott Smith,Toby Pitman,Rob Playford,Michael Price,Steven Price,Frank Ricotti,Theo Vidgen,Jake Walker,Bruce White,Robin Whittaker,Jonathan Williams,Vicki Williams,Rachel Bolt,David William Hearn,Todd Kasow,Andrew Townend
Script and Continuity Department	Sheila Waldron,Edgar Wright
Transportation Department	Ted Basso,Alan Berger,Kari Bernhardt,Dan Berryman,George M. Brown,John Campbell,Al Cantu,Jack Carpenter,Bob A. Carter,Kelly Carter,Bill Clair,Lori Dillen,Billy L. Butch Frank,Joseph Gonzales,John Christopher Hicks,Penny Hicks,John Hudson,Edward Lassak,William F. Luehm,Wende Martin,Jimmy W. Masterson,Robert Red Maxwell,Richard E. Morley Jr.,Louis Ortiz,Louis Ortiz,Andrew King Quintana,William Ray,Paul Ripple,Tom Roberts,Teri Romano,Jesse Romero,Michael J. Roybal,Timothy P. Ryan Jr.,Timothy P. Ryan,Bonnie Seltzer,Ronald T. Shipps,Richard Slaughter,Fred Steagall,Freddie L. Steagall,Lucas Stein,Steve Vandiver,Anthony Wamego,George Williams
Additional Crew	Paula Amanda,Liza Angelie,Christina Angeloudes,William Arute,Lance Bangs,Karen Beever,Paul Belenardo,Taryn Benesta,Aubree Bernier-Clarke,David Bethel,Bryan Blair,Ben Blois,Robert Anthony Brass,Fran Broadhurst,Megan Alicia Brown,Alton Robert Capwell,Jeane Champion,Chloe Dorigan,Kate Fasulo,Eric Fiedler,Cliff Fleming,Joshua Fritel,Jamie E. Frye,Rachael Lin Gallaghan,Wyatt Garfield,Colin Garza,Tarn Harper,Evan Hayes,Jurgen Heimann,J. Elizabeth Ingram,Nancy G. James,Allison Jandreau-Heil,Brad Jenkins,Matthew Justice,Nikki Kelly,Paul R. Kenney,Ivan Kerum,Suraj Kaur Khalsa,Cheryl Kurk,Lisa Kurk-Dmytryk,Shira Landman,Troy Lochner,Jennifer P. Luther,Tara Lyons,Kyle Martin,Sharon Martin,Crystal McAlerney,Gráinne Mckenna,Scott Millenbaugh,Jason Miller,Matthew J. Miller,Diane Min Fa,Liz Modena,Angela Morrison,Patricia Mary Murphy,Khalic Nance,Daniel Noah,Dale O Malley,David Z. Obadiah,Justin Pastryk,Ryan J. Pezdirc,Katherine Pomfret,Rachael Prior,Liz Probst,Tamzin Rafn,Celia Richards,Kirsty Robinson-Ward,Kathryn Rose-Remlinger,Ruth Sewell,Sheeraz Shah,Natasha Shumny,Jack Sidey,Joan Siebens,Louise Spencer,Paula Stier,Adam M. Stone,Cat Stone,Jason Suhrke,Chance P. Tassone,Lee Thomas,Clinton Trucks,Elizabeth Van Allen,Jill Vaupen,Elias Vigh,Brenden Wedner,Jessica Weetch,Polly Wilby,Michelle Wright,Oscar Wright,Sarah Jane Wright,Christophe Zajac-Denek,Hannah Bergstrom,Adam Cuthbert,Hayley Derryberry,Christian Di Salvo,Paul Donnellon,Shawn Fields,Cliff Fleming,Cory Fleming,Joe Manuel Gallegos Jr.,Alina Gatti,Gale Hansen,Jurgen Heimann,Linda Diane Holley,Patrick Hutchison,Beverly Kizer,Alexandria Morrow,Adam Owens,Kate Phillips,Eva Quiroz,Air Saturn,Cara Shine Ballarini,Marcus Taylor
Thanks	Kenton Allen,Sarah Allentuch,Richard Ayoade,Howard Beige,Jason Brashill,Nick Burns,Adam Buxton,Alison Cain,Daniel Clowes,Olivia Colman,Joe Cornish,Kevin Eldon,Allen Entin,Nelson Franklin,Christina Frost,Carla Gallo,David Glanzer,Paul Herbert,Timur Karamolla,Joe Keatinge,Robert Kirkman,Jeremy Lovering,David Marsden,Kathy McCurdy,Jim Murray,Greg Nicotero,Arika Okrent,Ryan Ottley,Maureen Pegg,Leo Thompson,Leo Thompson,Priscilla Travis-Laudenklos,Cory Walker,Steve D. Weinmuller,Edgar Wright
Genres	Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Companies	Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title Films
Countries	USA, UK
Languages	English, Klingon
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	6.9
ImDbRatingVotes	252405
MetacriticRating	57
Keywords	alien,road trip,alien contact,nerd,spacecraft