, the film was highly profitable for Sony Pictures and Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production company. Las Vegas Review-Journal The "Underdog" Perspective

If you are looking for a tightly written comedy like The Heat or Bridesmaids , avoid Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 like the plague. It is structurally flawed, tonally chaotic, and features a third act that relies on a child operating a drone.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is not good cinema. It is, however, a bizarre artifact of mid-2010s studio comedy: loud, lazy, but weirdly sincere. Paul Blart never stops trying, and somehow, that makes the movie just barely watchable. If you like Kevin James falling off things in Las Vegas, you’ve hit the jackpot. If not—you’ve been warned.