Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Bluekeet Paulie was a movie meant to touch your heart. And it has done just that. Even more so if you own a bird. They are loyal and can greatly impact your life and surely will become your best friend. Paulie's journey is definitely one to remember and the relationship between him and Marie is pure and truly beautiful. Paulie himself is absolutely a great character himself, and his devotion to his girl is heart-warming. This movie will really tug on your emotions, as it has done for me. And it takes a lot for a movie to get to me, but Paulie made my emotions seep out. There were cute and amusing scenes and there were scenes so upsetting you cry. A great movie and I BEG you watch if you have a birdy best friend.

therubixtheory I don't know when talking animal movies started becoming rancid, underwritten, current culture stereotyping stomach bursters but this movie to me is the last in a great breed of them, right up there with fluke.I watched it this morning, I a 22 year old man with my 52 year old father sat through this entire movie for about the tenth time in my life, and i'm not afraid to say that I laughed when I was supposed to and I cried more than once.It's the story I mostly love, how he moves from being owned by a little girl to befriending a blind old lady to a Mexican immagrant to a thief and finally to lab and that it's told through beautiful dialogue and the cast is brilliant.This is one of the stories that has inspired my novel.Show this movie to your children, teach them about a time when computer animation didn't rule our screens and when good stories and subtlety was used instead of extemities.Teach them this saying "There are things in life you put off, because you think you're gonna do them later. But you gotta live like there may not be a later"

Lee Eisenberg Some people might call "Paulie" a kids' movie, but I wish to assert that it's more than that. Probably more than anything else, this movie successfully goes to great lengths to show the plight of immigrants in the United States - topical given the recent debates. Portraying a parrot telling a Russian immigrant janitor (Tony Shalhoub) of how he searched America for his original owners, the movie tells several stories. There's the elderly woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he befriends, then a Mexican immigrant (Cheech Marin), and others.All in all, it's a very well done movie. I usually don't expect much from these sorts of movies, but this one is a treat. I certainly recommend it. Also starring Jay Mohr, Buddy Hackett, Bruce Davison, Hallie Eisenberg and Trini Alvarado.

raymond-15 A sentimental story with a sentimental sound track. It's about a little girl ( with a voice impediment ) who treasures her green parrot Paulie. The parrot thinks and talks like a human being and gives help and advice to his constant companion.The parrot is definitely the star of the film. At times mischievous and at times in fits of depression the bird captures the mood in a most remarkable and expressive way. The synchronised voice too is very well done and within a minute or two you can actually believe that this intelligent little bird exists.Early in the film her father gives the bird to a pawnbroker and the subsequent scenes tell the story of Paulie's constant struggle over many years to be re-united with his mistress. One of the many memorable scenes is when he falls into bad company and is encouraged to spy on people using the automatic teller machines. Paulie it seems has a phenomenal memory.The ending is predictable, but who would want it otherwise. Children will love this film and anybody who keeps a bird as a pet will delight in Paulie's antics.