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2:09 AM 1/22/10 · While admittedly, as I know at least one person reading this is gonna get on my case about this, Aliens In the Attic is definitely a kid's flick...it's still good for all ages in my opinion. The problem with movies is they don't seem to be broken into exactly the same categories as what you'd find in a bookstore. I'd liken this less to little kids, in that sense, to more what is usually termed young adult.
Kinda like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Angel novels were labelled.
That said, this isn't bloody but it's definitely violent. I was kinda hoping, when I heard about this, that it would be in the same vein as the movie Spaced Invaders which I loved to death when I first saw it and each subsequent time I watched it again.
So, what we've got here is another demented alien invasion by a terribly tiny force. Not just that there's so few of them (a commander with 2 soldiers and a technician) but the fact they're all about 1 foot tall. They have come to Earth to enslave the inhabitants, or more likely kill them, and take the planet as their own. They're not an entirely stable bunch, especially as the soldiers are different genders and constantly competing with each other. The leader is a maniac and the technician is the only sensible one of the group.
The focus of their attack is a family vacation home that something they need for the invasion is buried under. The family is divided. 2 units: husband & wife, son & daughter. The son is brilliant yet failing school, the daughter is dating a reall asshole who isn't as young as he pretends to be. The other side of the family are there cousins (pair of twins, a really young daughter, and a son) their divorced father and grandma. Anyway, they're all here to get away from it all and, as luck would have it, the aliens landed on the roof just a little bit after they arrive.
The problem is that the aliens have the ability to implant control devices in humans and remote control them. However, this technology doesn't work on children...so the kids know they need to take the aliens out as fast as possible while at the same time keeping their parents in the dark lest they get exposed and become 'space zombies'.
Kid speak. Heh.
It's actually very fun. Aliens weapons aren't necessarily lethal, as on some level they really did come to not kill so much as enslave. Excepting that they really really want to kill. The control devices are implanted in the asshole of a boyfriend and grandma, which leads to a Street Fighter style duel which for its own sake is worth seeing the rest of the movie for.
There's more movie in the credits and then, quite a ways down, bloopers.
Aliens In the Attic is hilarious!
Kinda like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Angel novels were labelled.
That said, this isn't bloody but it's definitely violent. I was kinda hoping, when I heard about this, that it would be in the same vein as the movie Spaced Invaders which I loved to death when I first saw it and each subsequent time I watched it again.
So, what we've got here is another demented alien invasion by a terribly tiny force. Not just that there's so few of them (a commander with 2 soldiers and a technician) but the fact they're all about 1 foot tall. They have come to Earth to enslave the inhabitants, or more likely kill them, and take the planet as their own. They're not an entirely stable bunch, especially as the soldiers are different genders and constantly competing with each other. The leader is a maniac and the technician is the only sensible one of the group.
The focus of their attack is a family vacation home that something they need for the invasion is buried under. The family is divided. 2 units: husband & wife, son & daughter. The son is brilliant yet failing school, the daughter is dating a reall asshole who isn't as young as he pretends to be. The other side of the family are there cousins (pair of twins, a really young daughter, and a son) their divorced father and grandma. Anyway, they're all here to get away from it all and, as luck would have it, the aliens landed on the roof just a little bit after they arrive.
The problem is that the aliens have the ability to implant control devices in humans and remote control them. However, this technology doesn't work on children...so the kids know they need to take the aliens out as fast as possible while at the same time keeping their parents in the dark lest they get exposed and become 'space zombies'.
Kid speak. Heh.
It's actually very fun. Aliens weapons aren't necessarily lethal, as on some level they really did come to not kill so much as enslave. Excepting that they really really want to kill. The control devices are implanted in the asshole of a boyfriend and grandma, which leads to a Street Fighter style duel which for its own sake is worth seeing the rest of the movie for.
There's more movie in the credits and then, quite a ways down, bloopers.
Aliens In the Attic is hilarious!