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The Watch is a lackluster comedy that clearly draws its inspiration from Ghostbusters. As with that great comedy, four average guys band together only to find themselves in the midst of the build-up to an other-worldly apocalypse. On the inspiration scale, the movie comes up way too light. On the laugh scale it actually inches closer to Ghostbusters 2. That’s not a good thing.
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What we have here is a sloppy comedy with few laughs featuring a bunch of average joes that,china jerseys cheap, in another movie,cheap nfl jerseys 2015, we may have come to like. The problem is that it can’t decide what kind of movie it wants to be. On one hand is a movie about an alien invasion. On the other hand it is a movie about four guys suffering various domestic issues. To our dismay, the movie tries to find equal time for both.
Ben Stiller leads the pack as Evan, a straight-arrow guy who loves his job as the manager of the local Costco and is dismayed by the information that his newly hired security guard was murdered inside the store – skinned,cheap nfl jerseys from china, in fact – on his first night on the job. From this,wholesale jerseys usa, Evan forms a neighborhood watch with the hope of keeping his town safe and hopefully catching the killer. Despite his announcement of the new neighborhood watch at the local football game, he draws only three potential recruits. One is Bob (Vince Vaughn),china jerseys, a nice guy who is having a problem dealing with his daughter’s budding sexuality. Another is Franklin (Jonah Hill), an angry kid who was denied a place on the police force. Then there’s Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade),nfl jerseys china, a clean-cut Brit whose fondest wish in life (which can’t be printed here) brings a stunned silence to the group.
On patrol, Evan squashes something with his car that clearly had tentacles. Among the remains is a round silver object that turns out to be an alien weapon that can evaporate its target. As they dig deeper into the mystery they uncover a plot by the aliens to destroy our world,cheapjerseys.cc, which is about it in terms of the alien invasion. What happens in the end really brings neither surprises nor comic zeal. It is all just closure with lots of special effects and explosions. The aliens themselves are your standard movie monsters, all slime, yellow eyes, teeth and tentacles. Their purpose for being here? To destroy our planet,cheap jerseys nfl, just like every other alien in the movies. Ho-hum.
What becomes clear is that the alien invasion plot was so thin that the screenwriters (one of whom is Seth Rogan) felt the need to add an uncomfortable series of domestic issues. Evan and his wife Abby (Rosemary DeWitt) are trying to have a baby while Evan is wrestling with how to break the new that he is shooting blanks. Meanwhile, Bob is dealing with his unmanageable teenage daughter whose new boyfriend he has spotted at Costco buying large quantities of condoms. Interesting stuff, but they feel odd in a plot in which an alien invasion is lurking elsewhere. |
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