Directed By: Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade
Rating: R for some strong sexual content including references, pervasive language and violent images
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes
Synopsis: After the security guard of his store is brutally murdered one night, Evan (Stiller) decides to put together a neighborhood watch to catch the killer. He manages to get three guys to join him - Bob (Vaughn), who doesn't know how to deal with his teenage daughter; Franklin (Hill), a police academy reject with violent tendencies; and Jamarcus (Ayoade), a new neighbor who wants to make some friends. When the four of them discover an apparent alien invasion in town, they struggle to figure out how to stop it and to fix what's all wrong in their lives.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello readers! We
know it’s been about a week since our last review and for that we apologize.
But the other night we caught a matinee of this past weekend’s new R-rated
comedy The Watch, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and
Richard Ayoade. Directed by Akiva Schaffer – one third of The Lonely Island –
and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who teamed together to write Superbad),
this was one of only two new releases this week. In our preview I said I was
pretty excited because of the pedigree behind it, but you were less than
enthused to see it. Turns out you were right to be, eh?
Sarah: Yeah! I had very
little enthusiasm for this movie. Great pedigree and I usually love the actors
in it, but I just wasn’t excited about the storyline and it turns out I was
right not to be. Because this movie was one of the dumbest movies we’ve seen
this year, in my opinion.
A: I wouldn’t say it was one
of the dumbest, but it was certainly disappointing and very uneven in the
comedy department.
S: It was like they
were trying to fit in science fiction with a your typical Ben Stiller or Vince
Vaughn comedy and then shoehorn some family conflicts going on…I
just didn’t get it. I didn’t understand why it was the way that it was, and I
thought it was just generally bad. I was bored!
