Aliens In The Attic

Reviewer: Alyice Edrich

The Movie

The Plot

Ever wonder what it would be like to fight off an alien invasion? Now you can find out as you watch a group of kids protect planet earth in this comedic adventure.

Starring

Carter Jenkins, Austin Robert Butler, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Henry Young, Tim Meadows, Ashley Tisdale, Andy Richter, Gillian Vigman, Robert Hoffman, Ashley Boettcher, Doris Roberts, and more.

Review

When Aliens In The Attic hit the theaters, I wasn’t too interested in seeing it. The commercials made the film appear to be a “good idea gone bad” and the reviews seemed to confirm my suspicions. Then my daughter convinced me to see it on video. Maybe I’m abnormal, but I actually thought it was a cute kid’s film!

To be honest, this isn’t an adult film, and it isn’t a teen film. This is a child’s film. It is a film created for and about children. Its premise is to turn something scary—an alien invasion, into something far less scary and a whole lot funnier.

In the beginning, Tom, a kid genius, is caught altering his school grades while his parent’s are looking at them on the school’s website. Furious, the dad insists that if he is smart enough to hack into the school’s computer, he is smart enough to get good grades. Fed up, he takes his family on a vacation in the mountains in hopes that disconnecting his son from the technological world would knock some sense into him and get the duo communicating again.

As they arrive at their destination, they’re met by the dad’s brother—who just so happens to be going through a midlife crisis. And just when you think this is going to turn into a touchy-feely show about resolutions and fatherly bonding, the film switches gears and leaves the complicated rebellious teen issue and midlife crisis under the covers.

And that’s when it gets interesting, entertaining, and funny!

When the two older boys, head up to the attic, with Tom’s sister’s annoying boyfriend, they meet up with aliens—short, midget aliens who are on a mission to prove themselves to their commander-and-chief and take over the world!

Running for their lives, they’re hit with the realization that they cannot tell their parents about the aliens—because if they do, the aliens’ mind-altering machines (which just so happens to turn adults into mindless robots with superhuman strength) would turn their parents against them and it would mean total doomsday. And so, with a Goonies meets Home Alone premise, the kids tackle the aliens and save planet earth.

If there is one area that bothered me, it would be that the adults remained clueless the entire time! And yet, in some odd way, their ignorance with the crisis actually made the film better! I especially loved watching grandma kick the butt out of her granddaughter’s boyfriend, then coming out of the robot stance clueless as to what just happened and feeling better than she had in years.

If you go into the film realizing that it was made for small children and designed to make them laugh, without the complicated adult material, then you’ll enjoy the comedic antics for what they are—pure clean fun. And with that in mind, I would recommend this film for anyone with children between the ages of two and nine.

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