The Watch Reviews
Concrete Playground
Light entertainment at its lightest, The Watch does at least elicit some laughs.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Deadspin
"The Watch" is a Dream Team in which no one's drawn up any plays and nobody passes the ball. Everybody just shoots and hopes for the best.
Scene-Stealers.com
This lame sci-fi comedy was supposed to be for teens, but was re-written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to be aimed at adults. The result is a movie that doesn't work for either.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Bland and juvenile, with little thought, humour, or imagination. It actually endorses its posse of puerile nobodies as noble, ass-kicking Americans.
Film Journal International
A talented cast shines brightly, but can't carry the weight of this under-inspired sci-fi frolic.
Daily Star
For a flabby 101-minute movie, the gag hit rate is alarmingly low.
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| Original Score: 2/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The aliens may be not of this Earth, but the jokes in this lifeless sci-fi comedy are so lazy they never even manage to lift off.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The Aristocrat
The only arcs these characters encounter are in their pants.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Fan The Fire
If the scenes between the four leads had been stronger, it might have been easier to overlook the film's structural and tonal weaknesses, but as it happens they only rescue it in dribs and drabs.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ScreenRant
The Watch is a lazy production at nearly every level. Expect these aliens to have better luck in a couple years - when they invade basic cable.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Shotgun Critic
All of this builds a pretty catastrophic picture of The Watch - and I think, given how many other awesome, funny, gross and clever comedies are out there, I refuse to be an apologist. It's not an unmitigated disaster, but it's not good - or good enough.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Sacramento News & Review
... one of the funniest movies of the year.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Crikey
the story regularly dozes off and wakes up in other places, squinting its eyes and groping in the dark for laughs.
3AW
It's one of those sad occasions where the bringing together of funny people mysteriously negates their ability to be funny.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
We Got This Covered
The Watch is an utterly soulless, lazy, painfully dull affair. It is not a film. It is a product, and an awful one. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
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| Original Score: 0/10
Flicks.co.nz
There may be plenty of studio comedies that are better than this film, but there are more that are worse.
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| Original Score: 3/5
2UE That Movie Show
The Watch doesn't totally know what it is - but that doesn't matter. It's entertaining, silly fun, if you like gaggles of fools stumbling upon alien invasions and d*ck jokes.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Quickflix
The Watch is indeed a feathered fish. It's a freaking underwater ostrich. Whether or not it will appeal to all four quadrants is of little concern to any viewer lucky enough to be located within its niche demographic, however.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Urban Cinefile
Four likeable guys and fine screen actors make a meal of this loony, gross-out sci-fi comedy, but you wonder if it isn't time for them to leave behind juvenile alley
