Of course, if this purely informational videoblog - or "vlog," as the kids call them - doesn't tell you all you need to know about the movie, don't fret; they're willing to tell you even more:

Don't feel that you have to limit your questions to the movie, either; they'll even explain the proper English way to drink tea:


Paul is currently in production for a 2010 release.

[What is Paul?]

Pegg admitted the painful truth to thelondonpaper:

We are recreating Comic-Con for it in Alberquerque, New Mexico. I wanted to shoot at real Comic-Con, but it's a minefield - you can't have a room of 10,000 people and not have one of them look at the camera and go, "oooohh."

There go our hopes of Comic-Con stardom... As well as the chance to appear in the background of one of the most anticipated geek movies of next year. Unless they're looking for convincing extras in New Mexico, of course...

Awwwww… Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Not To Film ‘Paul' At San Diego Comic Con [Bleeding Cool]

What Is Paul is loaded up with photos from the set, and little videos featuring the actors and crew members being adorable, the way Pegg and Frost always are. Paul is about a couple of comic-book geeks who travel cross country to Comic Con and meet a few interesting aliens along the way. I'm loving the little nerdy moments in these videos, like when Pegg states, "We named the RV in the film after the name of the ship that Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands in." That's my kind of nerd... sigh.

Looks like Edgar Wright's super aggressive online campaign for em>Scott Pilgrum may have rubbed off on his two old colleagues (Wright directed Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz). I'd love to see these two campaigns get some cross-over, if the films visited each other, it would make an amazing viral.

We can't tell you how much we want the upcoming Tintin movies to be sci-fi; what genre wouldn't want to claim a couple of movies written by Steven Moffat, directed by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg and starring (amongst others) Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (as the Thompson Twins) alongside Andy "I was Gollum and King Kong, you know" Serkis, after all? It's like the ideal science-fiction movie... except that, really, Tintin isn't really science fiction.

Oh, we've tried to convince ourselves otherwise, pointing out that he went to the moon in a couple of books, not to mention an appearance by a strange meteor. But the fact remains that, overall, The Adventures of Tintin remains a more grounded series, despite occasionally wandering into stranger territories (Plus, sadly, the movies are apparently based on the very not science fiction books The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure).

And so, we're left looking at the amazing collection of talent behind the Tintin movies, wishing that they could come to their senses and just work on a proper science fiction story instead of this Boy Reporter And Pirates stuff, and also sneakily reporting on it nonetheless by disguising it as a post about being sad that the movies aren't science fiction after all.

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost join 'Tintin' [Variety]