Daft 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.
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08/14/09
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:Jul 31, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $24,967,943
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
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Reviews for Aliens in the Attic
A cheap and charmless kiddie-orientated sci-fi adventure film. Pre-teens deserve better than this.
08/14/09
A pleasant, inconsequential movie.
08/14/09
If I saw ALIENS IN THE ATTIC twenty years ago, I would have recommended it. But now that the bar has been raised for family films, I would say wait for the dvd, and only if you're a parent.
08/16/09
Remarkably unremarkable; a lively war of the worlds diversion with plenty of spunky special effects, gratuitous slapstick, and Ashley Tisdale parading around in a bikini for all the dads out there.
07/31/09
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
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
Aliens in the Attic is inoffensively mediocre, bereft of subtext and depth but too playful to get terribly bent out of shape about its shortcomings. It could have been a whole lot better, but it also could have been a great deal worse.
07/31/09
Cue some uninspired but reasonably entertaining mayhem. The aliens are mediocre CGI bipeds who wouldn’t last 10 seconds against a horde of Gremlins.
08/17/09
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
Small pleasures aside, the movie doesn't offer anything particularly memorable or inventive.
08/01/09
Isn't all that bad...but it lacks magic, and except as a harmless diversion for the youngsters on a rainy afternoon, you can safely hold off until it shows up on DVD.
08/01/09
Lightweight entertainment for kids with a thankfully low level of obnoxiousness.
07/31/09
Okay entertainment for kids but for adults it is all just too familiar. You feel you have seen it all before in better movies.
08/03/09
a rather an insipid bit of lazy filmmaking
08/02/09
There's nothing really new here: it's all sub-Home Alone nonsense.
08/11/09
Parental Content Review
07/31/09
Aliens in the Attic is so thinly written by Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg that the characters are defined entirely by the actors playing them (or, in the case of the f/x-spawned aliens, voicing them).
07/31/09
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
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