Cue some uninspired but reasonably entertaining mayhem. The aliens are mediocre CGI bipeds who wouldn’t last 10 seconds against a horde of Gremlins.
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08/17/09
Aliens in the Attic (2009)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:19
Rotten:46
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Inoffensive and kid-friendly this mundane family comedy is light on imagination.
Theatrical Release:12-08-2009
Synopsis: They Came From Upstairs, co-scripted by one of the writers of Madagascar and the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbits, is an adventure/comedy about kids on a... [More]
Starring: Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows
Director: John Schultz
Reviews for Aliens in the Attic
Uninventive family comedy.
08/17/09
The aliens look like cast-offs from a bad Spielberg film and the whole family are boring examples of Hollywood’s ordinary Americans.
08/17/09
Fleeting charms are largely outweighed by an unexceptional script, a brace of shabby performances (from both kids and adults) and some dismal CG effects.
08/14/09
Top CriticThis is one of those once-seen-immediately-forgotten enterprises which avoids anything memorable or imaginative in favour of fast, functional, charisma-free busy-ness.
08/14/09
Top CriticGremlins meets Goonies meets something stultifyingly inept in a sci-fi adventure for the very young.
08/14/09
Top CriticYou could take the kids to see it this summer holiday and avoid an hour or so of rain - or rent the DVD later on. Inoffensive.
08/14/09
Top CriticDaft battles aside, the film soon takes a predictable turn towards family togetherness and bonding, which is cringing but morally commendable all the same. Ultimately this is a bearable if forgettable film.
08/14/09
Aliens In The Attic is a movie solely aimed at children and it does exactly what it sets out to do. It's nothing more than a harmless comedy for kids and tweenagers chock full of slapstick comedy, cute-as-pie aliens and appealing child stars.
08/14/09
This is just a giant slurp of cinematic Sunny D, quenching the thirst for instant fun with CGI sweeteners and a fast-acting concoction of other slapstick additives.
08/14/09
Marred by cheapjack CGI and poor character design (the squishy-faced critters look like they came out of a cereal packet, not outer space), this very kid-centric caper is numbingly mediocre.
08/14/09
Children below the age of ten may be amused... Older people, by which I mean everyone from 11 upwards, may notice that the movie runs out of ideas within 20 minutes.
08/14/09
Aliens In The Attic is boring. Not just humdrum but deathly dull, as in stick-it-in-a-rocket-and-blast-it-into-space uninteresting.
08/14/09
Very winsome and very long.
08/14/09
A pleasant, inconsequential movie.
08/14/09
Watchable family sci-fi comedy with at least one hilarious and rather brilliant set-piece, but there's never really any sense of danger or jeopardy so it's not quite as exciting as it should have been.
08/14/09
High energy levels and some genuinely hilarious set pieces make this kids' alien-invasion romp a lot more fun than expected. It's not, erm, rocket science, but it's a thoroughly entertaining ride from start to finish.
08/14/09
Even though the basics are in place, they've been squandered by director John Schultz - a man who doesn't seem to have the first idea about how to shoot action, or comedy, or anything else.
08/14/09
A cheap and charmless kiddie-orientated sci-fi adventure film. Pre-teens deserve better than this.
08/14/09
There's nothing really new here: it's all sub-Home Alone nonsense.
08/11/09
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