The Watch Reviews

... one of the funniest movies of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

There may be plenty of studio comedies that are better than this film, but there are more that are worse.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Schaffer piles on the jokes and set pieces to keep things moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

If you can ignore the disturbing parallels with recent events, this middle-aged, Middle-American Attack The Block raises a laugh.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A mostly harmless time at the movies... if don't value your time too much.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

That it triumphs, despite being a slave to formula, is squarely down to its uproarious banter, co-scripted by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and delivered with aplomb by an on-form ensemble.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The only thing the cast seemed to care about it trying to make you laugh. It worked for me, especially having a happy Vince Vaughn.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

It made me laugh and even though it got untangled towards the end I had fun watching it. I'm gonna give this movie the same score as my mom, who accompanied us to the screening, 3.1 Schmoes. Decimals run in the family.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.1/5

I don't know what planet other critics are watching their comedies on, but here on Earth, this is pretty gut-busting stuff. Woody Allen wishes To Rome With Love were a 10th as funny.

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The Watch" is a good time even if the neighborhood watch isn't going to top your list of possible answers to the question "who you gonna call?"

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Simultaneously subverting and celebrating several genres of he-man testosterone flicks, from horror to buddy action flick, to, heaven help us, the existential suburban angst of John Updike

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Take heart in the fact that you should laugh a bit during this experience, even if you forget about it later.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

You may feel like you're watching a 90-minute Bud commercial, but there are laughs to be had, and British comic Richard Ayoade puts a fresh spin on R-rated raunch.

Full Review | Original Score: B

There's nothing revelatory to be found in The Watch, but the cast's knack for improv, a poetry of the profane, makes the adventure worth...viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

When the punchine of the movie is basically the same as [Costco's] slogan, though, that seems like a mistake.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

For hang time with the guys, you could do worse than "The Watch."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This poor movie can't catch a break, which is a shame because it's actually pretty funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Some of the phallic jokes work, others are really lame. Fortunately there are many other funny bits that have nothing to do with body parts that keep the laughs coming.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5