The Watch
The Watch
R | 27 July 2012 (USA)

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Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

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ChickyNug

This movie isn't designed for artist views and pretentiousness. It's meant to be crass and stupid and entertaining. It provided me with more laughs in a movie I've had in so long. Just because you find this movie funny doesn't make you stupid it just means you've got a decent sense of humour and don't take life too seriously where a movie is concerned. Jonah Hill is one of the best in this movie complimented with Vince Vaughn's stone cold faced humour. I loved it. I would watch it again. Feel down watch this for just the stupidity and laughter.

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Floated2

From the main sequence in the Watch, everything that comes to mind is when Neighborhood Watch decides to take pictures with an alien. Then there's the way the movie draws such a huge emphasis to alien genitals and the argument between Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn with implications that last maybe two minutes. The screenplay starts to feel like it's dragging your face in the mud as Jonah Hill's incessant rambling and shouting at his mother along with six or seven dozen unneeded sex jokes make up for much of its unnecessary body mass. Directed by one of SNL writers, it is clear that while watching the Watch, it felt like an SNL sketch that went on far too long.From the start, the aliens in the film have something big planned that keep the four men who make up "Neighborhood Watch" busy and paranoid. This comedy attempting to blend with sci-fi and action might have been better with better writing, and more clever jokes. For starters, the jokes went flat and felt very forced. It was expected with an R rating, but given the R rating, great comedic writers have made it worked. An example would be 21 Jump Street which was released the same year. As we see in the Watch, the film isn't clever enough or interesting enough.

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Lia Riemann

Of course this is a bad movie, predictable and kind of stupid, plus they kill the only non-white (except for Jamarcus I guess) character at the start of the movie but what can I really say regarding how I feel about it? it's funny and entertaining. I think what makes it so much is that all of the four main guys are so useless that you're worried about their lives yet you think they kinda deserve to be hurt because they're damn idiots like that. Pretty good movie for a cross between sci-fi and comedy I feel. As I said though, it's pretty predictable. Even one of them being an alien I could predict. At parts it was a bit cheesy but in a light-hearted way. One of those movies so bad they're good.

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richieandsam

THE WATCH I saw the trailer for this a few years ago and it never really appealed to me, but after seeing it I wished I watched earlier.The movie is about a group of friendless guys who decide to put together a neighbourhood watch group after a shop security guard gets murdered and skinned. They soon realise that this group they have made is investigating something even more surreal than a murder.The film comes across as a comedy, but to be honest it wasn't that funny. OK, so I laughed in places, but in general I thought it could have been funnier. I would consider this to be more of a sci-fi film that anything else. It was a very good movie though. It was just misleading.The story is fun and the aliens looked amazing. They were like a mix of Alien and Predator together. The effects were really good and the alien looked realistic enough. There was a really funny scene where they thought they killed one of the aliens and they were just taking photos with it.The movie stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. Ben was really good in this, but then he is quite good in a lot of his movies. Vince was really funny throughout too, but the thing with him is he seems to play the same character in every movie he plays. I don't think he has any range to try anything different. Jonah played his part well and was possible the funniest character in the movie because he played it so seriously. Richard was brilliant. His English accent really made his character all the funnier. He had some great lines, but I had hoped he would have had a bigger speaking part.The film ran along nicely. I didn't get bored at all and it felt like it passed quite quickly. All in all I though this film was a lot of fun and I am glad I watched it. It is a good movie, just not as funny as I had hoped.I will give this film 7 out of 10."I have this one scenario in my mind. I kinda hope it plays out like this: young, sexy, Asian housewife, alone at night, frightened. A noise out by the trash cans. Best call the neighbourhood watch. I show up, look heroic, and then... get this - she sucks my balls." For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

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