BEFORE: Alien films were hot last year, though I'm just getting to them now. This year seems to be more about post-apocalyptic Earth scenarios. Linking from "Men in Black 3" Bill Hader was also in "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" with Will Forte.
THE PLOT: Four men who form a neighborhood watch group find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion.
AFTER: Well, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this one - it didn't get great reviews, but then it also had the unfortunate timing of appearing in theaters shortly after there was some trouble in Florida last year with a neighborhood watch group. So I wasn't sure if it just got bad publicity because of that.
There were certainly some twists that I didn't see coming, so that means there was something original about it, but it's like the film didn't know what it wanted to be - the ultimate man vs. aliens picture, or a parody of other alien invasion pictures. So that means maybe they didn't take the humor far enough?
Yeah, let's go with that, because seeing the two main cast members from "Dodgeball" together again reminds me how funny that movie was, and that film really pushed the envelope. This one, not so much. It probably looked good on paper, but somehow it feels like it never really gets off the ground.
Also starring Ben Stiller (last seen in "Tower Heist"), Vince Vaughn (last seen in "The Dilemma"), Jonah Hill (last seen in "The Sitter"), Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie Dewitt, Billy Crudup (last seen in "Stage Beauty"), R. Lee Ermey (last heard in "Toy Story 3"), with a cameo from Andy Samberg (last seen in "Friends With Benefits").
RATING: 5 out of 10 packages of batteries
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