If you loved Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, try Playing with Fire

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Andy Fickman, and they both carry the cozy, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Playing with Fire is

A film that perhaps overestimated the appeal of John Cena to the under-10s. A group of smokejumpers babysit three children they rescued from a fire. It is broadly what one might expect.

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