Aliens in the Attic

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 31, 2009

5.5	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 57 Ratings

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MichaelDApr 22, 2012

Wasn't a great movie. It was mostly dull and the acting was never great. A bit of a flop to be honest.

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PevMasterApr 16, 2011

This film is as lifeless and generic as a corpse. It tries so hard to be funny that it becomes very distasteful. The humour won't even appeal to kids, the plot is generic and the acting is poor. Don't watch.

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ChadS.Aug 1, 2009

Eternal enslavement or instantaneous death are the choices offered by the Zarconians upon first contact with the children on a country house roof. These aliens talk a big game, and yet, it takes them an inordinate amount of time to escape Eternal enslavement or instantaneous death are the choices offered by the Zarconians upon first contact with the children on a country house roof. These aliens talk a big game, and yet, it takes them an inordinate amount of time to escape the attic. "Peace is not an option," according to Tazer(Thomas Haden Church), the team leader, but before he and his band of marauding cohorts get down to the business of recovering the hardware buried beneath the house, these aliens start a war, but it's a pretend war, because they're more like playmates than adversaries. The children come after the Zarconians with paintball guns and rakes, and use fireworks to smoke them out of the vents. Even though they're supposedly the higher intelligence, Tom Pearson(Carter Jenkins), along with his siblings and cousins, fend the creatures off with a counterattack more suited for the realm of make-believe. Since the aliens are so diminuitive in size, and conspicuously, never attack the parents(a contrivance built into the film's scaled down approach to H.G. Wells), "Aliens in the Attic" should have gone the "Explorers"(the 1985 film starring River Phoenix) route and made the aliens only children masquerading as a scout team. That would better explain why the young Americans prove to be such formidable opponents to a species who promises imminent death but never delivers(fully mature aliens wouldn't hesitate to kill). "Aliens in the Attic" is unfocused; it wants to be both "The War of the Worlds" and "E.T."(the subplot between the little girl and Sparks). But despite the hodgepodge of influences, a kernel of intelligence perseveres above the post-modern fray, as the filmmaker, perhaps, is trying to say something about how technology plays too big a role in our lives. The aliens have all these cool toys, superior mechanics, but they're stupid(not quite "Critters"-stupid). That's why the story hinges around the father(Kevin Nealon) taking his family to the countryside for some fishing.… Expand

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ZilcellApr 26, 2012

I expected it to have a dumb story and be unfunny, but it turned out to be somewhat funny and amusing. The acting and story are slightly above average.