MikeC19 Being someone that enjoys the work of Stiller, Vaughn and Hill, this was something I thought would be pretty enjoyable. Instead, I found that there weren't many laughs to be found, though I enjoyed Richard Ayoade. I didn't know who he was at the time, but have since come to enjoy his work immensely! The main problem with this film, simply, is that it isn't funny. It confuses dumb, violent and sexual situations with humor. It was written originally as a Ghostbusters-esque PG-13 film, which probably would have been better, but was then rewritten by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who's work I'm not particularly fond of. Richard Ayoade was the best part of this for me, but even so, the crude humor just doesn't work in the film's case. Almost all of the jokes fall flat, or feel awkward and generally it just wasn't an enjoyable experience for me. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's close.

sol- Distraught over the violent murder of a night shift employee, a variety store manager with too much time on his hands forms a neighbourhood watch, only to find his recruits more interested in socialising and having a good time in this jovial comedy with a science fiction twist. Much of the humour is extremely low-brow and the film is never consistently funny, but the first half is certainly propelled greatly by the gradual bonding between the four main characters. Richard Ayoade (from TV's 'The IT Crowd') and Jonah Hill are particular standouts, but even Vince Vaughn's initially obnoxious character is eventually revealed to be both a deeply caring parent and very lonely isolated man. The science fiction content only works to a limited degree though and rather than strengthen the bonds between the characters, it mostly just leads to lots of mindless action and explosions; certainly many earlier films have done much more with the aliens in suburbia premise - though this is probably the only film which has its characters dance with an alien corpse (!) in one of the film's most bizarre (if silly) scenes. The creature effects are certainly quite decent and there are some pretty neat makeup effects in the mix too, but it is hard not to wonder what the film would have looked like without the science fiction angle. There is a lot of interest in the dynamic of four men joining a neighbourhood security program simply as a way to meet people, but this gets a tad lost here amid the aliens and gross-out humour. When the film is genuinely funny, however, it is very, very funny.

Lia Riemann Of course this is a bad movie, predictable and kind of stupid, plus they kill the only non-white (except for Jamarcus I guess) character at the start of the movie but what can I really say regarding how I feel about it? it's funny and entertaining. I think what makes it so much is that all of the four main guys are so useless that you're worried about their lives yet you think they kinda deserve to be hurt because they're damn idiots like that. Pretty good movie for a cross between sci-fi and comedy I feel. As I said though, it's pretty predictable. Even one of them being an alien I could predict. At parts it was a bit cheesy but in a light-hearted way. One of those movies so bad they're good.

richieandsam THE WATCH I saw the trailer for this a few years ago and it never really appealed to me, but after seeing it I wished I watched earlier.The movie is about a group of friendless guys who decide to put together a neighbourhood watch group after a shop security guard gets murdered and skinned. They soon realise that this group they have made is investigating something even more surreal than a murder.The film comes across as a comedy, but to be honest it wasn't that funny. OK, so I laughed in places, but in general I thought it could have been funnier. I would consider this to be more of a sci-fi film that anything else. It was a very good movie though. It was just misleading.The story is fun and the aliens looked amazing. They were like a mix of Alien and Predator together. The effects were really good and the alien looked realistic enough. There was a really funny scene where they thought they killed one of the aliens and they were just taking photos with it.The movie stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. Ben was really good in this, but then he is quite good in a lot of his movies. Vince was really funny throughout too, but the thing with him is he seems to play the same character in every movie he plays. I don't think he has any range to try anything different. Jonah played his part well and was possible the funniest character in the movie because he played it so seriously. Richard was brilliant. His English accent really made his character all the funnier. He had some great lines, but I had hoped he would have had a bigger speaking part.The film ran along nicely. I didn't get bored at all and it felt like it passed quite quickly. All in all I though this film was a lot of fun and I am glad I watched it. It is a good movie, just not as funny as I had hoped.I will give this film 7 out of 10."I have this one scenario in my mind. I kinda hope it plays out like this: young, sexy, Asian housewife, alone at night, frightened. A noise out by the trash cans. Best call the neighbourhood watch. I show up, look heroic, and then... get this - she sucks my balls." For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl