The Watch
2012, Sci fi/Comedy, 1h 41m
165 Reviews 50,000+ RatingsWhat to know
The Watch uneasily mixes sci-fi elements with gross-out gags and strands its talented cast with a script that favors vulgarity over wit at nearly every turn. Read critic reviews
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Evan Troutwig
Bob
Franklin
Jamarcus
Abby
Sgt. Bressman
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Critic Reviews for The Watch
All Critics (165) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (138)
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This wants to be (I think) Invasion of the Body Snatchers via Ghostbusters and Attack the Block but succeeds in being nothing but its own dreadful, pitiful, tedious self.
September 1, 2018 | Full Review… -
"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.
February 12, 2013 | Full Review… -
There's nothing particularly offensive about the piece. But its intergalactic badness does take the breath away.
August 24, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
It's got a cast to kill for, a Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg script (they wrote Superbad) and a promisingly Ghostbusters-ish premise. And yet it's catastrophic.
August 23, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
By the end you want to mercy-shoot everyone involved.
August 23, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
All the bromancing back-slapping can't hide the quartet's crippling lack of screen chemistry, while frights, and laughs, are non-existent.
August 23, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Watch
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Nov 19, 2016The neighborhood guys usually thought of as "trying too hard to fit in" band together to party and bond only to find unexpected redemption when aliens from space threaten the hood. You'll leave this wishing that they hadn't gone for the easy humor most times but, eh, whaddaya expect?Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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May 24, 2015Eh. Ben Stiller and a gang of adult ragamuffins form a neighborhood watch only to be thwarted by divergent purposes and loyalties. The big alien twist is quite deus ex machina - oops spoilers - but Billy Crudup is slickly creepy as an Eyes Wide Shut sex emperor.Alice S Super Reviewer
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Jun 03, 2014It had its moments... but they were too few!Thomas J Super Reviewer
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Mar 08, 2014In "The Watch," Evan(Ben Stiller) is the manager of a box store. In his spare time, he founds various clubs around his hometown of Glenview, Ohio; that is when he is not trying to get his wife Abby(Rosemarie DeWitt) pregnant. But when Antonio(Joe Nunez), an employee, is brutally killed while celebrating getting his American citizenship, Evan takes action by starting a neighborhood watch. And then only gets Bob(Vince Vaughn), Franklin(Jonah Hill) and Jamarcus(Richard Ayoade) to show up for an orientation meeting. That does not stop any of them from going out on patrol, though. It is not that "The Watch" is not particularly funny and nowhere near as good as "The Cornetto Trilogy" in comically exploring male camaraderie under extreme circumstances. It is that it cannot decide whether it wants to be a comedy in the first place. To start, its comic lead actors seem to be strangely enough playing it straight. But at least, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt and an uncredited Billy Crudup seem to get it. More of that would have gone a long way towards fully exploiting the satirical potential of the story, especially considering the choice mixture of the suburbs and alien invasion presented here, instead of this informercial for a big box store which apparently does sell condoms.Walter M Super Reviewer
The Watch Quotes
| Antonio Guzman: | I have a gun, which knowbody taught me to use so b even more scared |
| Antonio Guzman: | I have a gun, which nobody taught me to use so be even more scared. |
| Jamarcus: | Nice to meet you |
| Jamarcus: | Nice to meet you. |
| Retiree #1: | Fuck you Curly |
| Retiree #1: | Fuck you Curly. |
| Jamarcus: | In a few hours, a transmitter will become operational. When it signals, our armada will commence a global invasion starting here in Glenview, which is clearly not ideal for you. |
| Bob: | What? |
| Franklin: | Why? |
| Jamarcus: | We're aliens, that's what we do. |
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