No wonders my critic-ish side went tingling as I hurdle on decisions on whether or not I should watch The Watch, an unbearably uninspired sci-fi comedy about an imminent extraterrestrial invasion. The pic is reinforced with enough talents whose skills merely surfaced, and with pretentious comedy bugged with ample amounts of dull attempts while a few liners manage to bring out smirks.
The world is in great threat, and otherworldly creatures are more gladly to wreak havoc on earth. Evidence is the recent death of a giga-wholesale market staff whose corpse was horribly skinned. In the middle is workaholic hubby Evan (Ben Stiller) who tries to establish a Neighborhood Watch, presumably an answer to the "crisis" his small Ohio town is facing. His very handful recruits come knocking on the door, all of them unlikely to help.
There's exceedingly fooling around dad Bob (Vince Vaughn) and a cop wannabe Franklin who is played by now a tad slender than before Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street). In addition is Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade), who has nothing wrong about him, except for his accent and a secret he soon will reveal. With their discovery of the extraterrestrial existence, the Watch is convinced that the neighborhood in fact needs them, and aliens ain't no good in Ohio, not in their watch.
With Stiller, Vaughn and Hill on the cast (Ayoade is the best among them, but given smaller exposure), it's kind of flummoxing to figure out how this sci-fi com-pic frizzles supremely. But as you go over the execution and the script, there's very little space to wonder why it does. The execution falls flat and so is the script which feels like a throwback to many standard TV-movie films that may be played between the SyFy (given its exemplar CGI) and Disney Channel (given its sketchy characters and generic plot).
Director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod) tries to pull of some fun moments, but all he could manage to make out is a few smirks. The startling truth in The Watch is that it is actually based on a screenplay which Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) wrote, he's seemingly, if this movie is enough proof, a better actor, than he could be a screenwriter. Ultimately, the movie is too sloppy taking no enough figure due to it's easy laziness, but it's also too pretentious trying to be funny without even getting close. C+
Director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod) tries to pull of some fun moments, but all he could manage to make out is a few smirks. The startling truth in The Watch is that it is actually based on a screenplay which Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) wrote, he's seemingly, if this movie is enough proof, a better actor, than he could be a screenwriter. Ultimately, the movie is too sloppy taking no enough figure due to it's easy laziness, but it's also too pretentious trying to be funny without even getting close. C+
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