SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

adonis98-743-186503 Loser Thomas Pearson is sent to a house in Albany with his family for the summer. During a storm, he and his cousin, jake meet 4 aliens who apparently do not come in peace and attack them. In order to get rid of them, they trust one and team up with Hannah, Bethany, and every other kid in tom's family to kill or at least get rid of the monsters and return home safely. Aliens in the Attic will be a huge hit with small children below the age of 10 but for older kids and definitely their parents? It will feel like a boring made for tv film with alot of genre cliches and bad cgi.

elementslife I liked this movie, but only for character growth. The aliens were clearly smart, but not at all believable. How is it that the young engineer knew better English than an experienced commander and soldiers? And he only knew good English until he fell into the little girl's room, then he started to just copy what they said! The girl alien was in my opinion, the best ET. She is smart, capable and a good soldier. The human characters were the best part, of course. They have it all, controlling parents, a stupid boyfriend, a confident teen girl, gamer twins, a pyromaniac cousin, grandma, a seemingly drunk guy, a mathlete who wants to be cool but ends up saving the world instead and to tie it all together, an adorable little girl who is friends with one of the enemy kind. That is what every movie needs, but not what this toned-down alien invasion deserves. I mean, "the invasion is cancelled! Head home!" Is that not the worst line ever said by an alien?

Jackson Booth-Millard I saw the trailer for this film during the tine it was released in cinemas, and I thought it looked like something that would be either very cheesy or just complete rubbish, so I watched it to see what I would ultimately think. Basically, in the suburbs of Michigan, Tom Pearson (Carter Jenkins) is the often troublesome young teenager of his family: father Stuart (Kevin Nealon), mother Nina (Gillian Vigman), seven year old sister Hannah (Ashley Boettcher) and older sister Bethany (High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale). The family are heading to a holiday home in Creek Landing for some good old fashioned summer togetherness, joined also by Uncle Nathan 'Nate' (Andy Richter), his son Jake (Austin Butler), identical twin cousins Art and Lee (twins Henri and Regan Young) and Nana Rose (Doris Roberts). They are also joined by Bethany's arrogant and older boyfriend Ricky Dillman (Robert Hoffman), and he shows his true colours to Tom when are told to go up to the attic and onto the roof to fix the television satellite. It is is on the roof they see the landing of small space pods, and four small aliens, the "Zirkonians", come out, tough commander Skip (J. K. Simmons), muscle-bound dude Tazer (Kari Wahlgren), lethal female soldier Razor (Thomas Haden Church), and technician and non threatening Sparks (Josh Peck). Soon enough the aliens turn vicious and make it clear they are on Earth to take it over, and Ricky gets captured with a mind control devise put on him, they use him like a robot/puppet to get their own way. Soon enough all five of the young characters have seen the alien invaders, and Tom appoints himself leader, and they manage to find out that the mind control devices only work on adult minds, so they are determined to make sure they won't capture them. The adults would not believe any explanations the younger characters try to tell them, so they are on their own, and they defend themselves with makeshift weapons, such as a potato launcher, and they also find a way to use the mind control device on Ricky. The adults are completely unaware of anything going on in the attic or anywhere else in the house as they want the kids to spend their time fishing and getting out and about. Hannah gets close to Sparks, the one alien that doesn't seem nasty at all, and the other young characters come to trust him as well, as he hates the battle going on, and he wants to go back to his home world and to his own family. Jake gets captured and tied up in the basement, and Nana Rose gets a mind control device put on her, giving her body more agility and strength, and the aliens use her body with the kids using Ricky's body in a fight. Bethany finally finds out what is going on as well after seeing the fight and the aliens, and Sparks makes them more high tech weapons, but the aliens reveal their most powerful weapon, a device that increases their size. After defeating the grown and then shrunk leader Skip, and Tazer and Razor, and the invasion called off, the aliens return to their home planet, including Sparks who says a sad goodbye to Hannah. The vacation finally returns to normal, Tom and his father reconcile with each other, they all enjoy their fishing at last, and Bethany and Tom both join forces to get revenge on Ricky, who still has the mind control device in him, and they make him look a complete idiot. Also starring Tim Meadows as Sheriff Doug Armstrong, Malese Jow as Julie and Megan Parker as Brooke. The cast is fine, the special effects are relatively good, and it is a simple story that can be enjoyed, what made it great fun were the inventive and ridiculous jokes, such as the slapstick fight sequences, and the pop culture references, and especially the mind control moments - with Hoffman's silly faces, both the children and adults watching will love it, a hilarious and fun science-fiction fantasy adventure comedy. Good!

Neil Welch Tom is a put-upon teenager. Always in Dad's bad books, at odds with sister Bethany and her boyfriend Ricky (who is nice as pie to Mom and Dad, but horrible to Tom), he hates having to go with them on holiday to a lakeside house with his uncle and domineering cousin (plus hi young sister and cousin twins). The awfulness continues as the holiday starts and then gets worse as the holiday house turns out to be the destination of a small alien invasion advance party. And small is the key word - these guys are barely shin high, but they are incredibly aggressive. Tom knows nobody will believe him, but it turns out all the kids (except Bethany) have to join together to combat the aggressors, especially when it turns out that the aliens can fire a dart which makes people from Ricky's age upwards (which excludes the kids) controllable via a video game controller.This is essentially a kids' film, although I watched it with my wife - she is nearly 62 and I am her 59 year old toyboy - and we laughed out loud frequently. There are no big surprises, but the script is constantly amusing, and there is some wonderful slapstick and physical humour, especially from Robert Hoffman as boyfriend Ricky - he is very funny in an impressive performance.And the CGI aliens are very well designed, animated, and integrated into the live action, as well as having some solid voice talent on board.