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A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
Thomas Haden Church
- Tazer
- (voice)
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Stuart Pearson (Kevin Nealon) heads with his family to spend a summer vacation in Creek Landing, Michigan, with his brother Nathan Pearson (Andy Richter) and his sons and their mother Rose (Doris Roberts) in an old lake house they had rented. When the television has trouble with the image, Stuart's son Tom (Carter Jenkins) and the arrogant boyfriend of his sister Ricky Dillman (Robert Hoffman) go to the attic and then to the roof, where Tom meets his cousin Jake (Austin Butler) and they find the antenna dish totally destroyed. Sooner they discover four alien invaders that are preparing an invasion of the Earth that use a mind control weapon that only affects adults and they lock the quartet in the attic. Now they need to a find a way to force the adults to leave the house and discover the vulnerability of the invaders to plot a defense plan to save our planet.
"Aliens in the Attack" is an underrated and funny family entertainment. I laughed a lot with many moments of this enjoyable story, especially with Robert Hoffman that is hilarious when the kids decide to get even with him using the alien control. The CGI is also good, and Sparks is really a sweet character. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Pequenos Invasores" ("Little Invaders")
"Aliens in the Attack" is an underrated and funny family entertainment. I laughed a lot with many moments of this enjoyable story, especially with Robert Hoffman that is hilarious when the kids decide to get even with him using the alien control. The CGI is also good, and Sparks is really a sweet character. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Pequenos Invasores" ("Little Invaders")
Ignore all the bad reviews on here this is a really great movie for kids and teenagers to watch.
The CGI in this movie was great. Voice actors for the alien voices were pretty spot on. The acting for this movie was great.
I am not going to spoil anything but I am going to say if you want to have a good Sci-Fi movie which both kids and adults can watch i would recomand this film.
As my title implies, most children will find this film enjoyable. I went to see it with my younger brother and he loved it. Does "Aliens in the Attic" have content the parents would enjoy? Not really, and no it doesn't have the depth of humour that Pixar or the older Disney films have. It's just a fun kids comedy with plenty of slapstick to keep them amused throughout.
Overall, this movie was decently acted, with some very funny moments (and I'll admit I laughed a few times myself). The CGI aliens are pretty poorly done unfortunately and the characters are nothing new; however, if you see this film for what it is- mindless entertainment- you just might enjoy it. At the very least, the children will.
Overall, this movie was decently acted, with some very funny moments (and I'll admit I laughed a few times myself). The CGI aliens are pretty poorly done unfortunately and the characters are nothing new; however, if you see this film for what it is- mindless entertainment- you just might enjoy it. At the very least, the children will.
I saw this movie with my 2 kids -- ages 3 and 9. Although I can't say I cared for it much, they LOVED it. I've never seen my daughter (the 3 year old) laugh so much or sit so still at a movie.
As a grumpy adult, I couldn't ignore the irrational plot line. My kids could care less, and they adored the clever funny dialogue and the silly slapstick comedy.
I'd strongly recommend that adults stay away. I'd also strongly recommend that anyone with kids go see it.
My rating of 8 is an average. I give it a 4, but both kids give it a 10. That averages out to an 8.
As a grumpy adult, I couldn't ignore the irrational plot line. My kids could care less, and they adored the clever funny dialogue and the silly slapstick comedy.
I'd strongly recommend that adults stay away. I'd also strongly recommend that anyone with kids go see it.
My rating of 8 is an average. I give it a 4, but both kids give it a 10. That averages out to an 8.
Don't be mislead by the overall rating, we found this movie very entertaining when in needed of some light entertainment for the evening!
Yes the story is run of the mill seen before stuff but it was well put together and flowed well enough, it certainly took me back to my childhood and the weekly trip to the video shop with my dad to rent a family film for the night, and can only imagine it would be great for kids (unfortunately ours is not old enough yet to appreciate anything other than tellytubies).
I definitely put it up with all the good old 80's classics like goonies, back to the future etc, as a no brains good old adventure... can also recommend spiderwick chronicles as a similar fantasy adventure film!
Yes the story is run of the mill seen before stuff but it was well put together and flowed well enough, it certainly took me back to my childhood and the weekly trip to the video shop with my dad to rent a family film for the night, and can only imagine it would be great for kids (unfortunately ours is not old enough yet to appreciate anything other than tellytubies).
I definitely put it up with all the good old 80's classics like goonies, back to the future etc, as a no brains good old adventure... can also recommend spiderwick chronicles as a similar fantasy adventure film!
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the kids are interrogating Sparks they ask him what his weakness is and one of the twins says "Water? Earth germs?". These are references to two well-known alien related films; in Signes (2002), the alien's weakness is water and in La Guerre des mondes (2005), their weakness is the common cold.
- GoofsAt the end of the fight between Ricky and Nana (at around 1h 02 mins), the control plug is knocked out of Ricky's neck, but at the end of the film, immediately after "The End" appears (at around 1h 19 mins), he is shown at Annie Filkins' house where Bethany and Tom use a controller to control him again.
The kids kept the gun from the aliens and Tom mentioned to Bethany that Ricky's car was broken down and he's not going anywhere. It's likely Tom and Bethany shot Ricky with the gun again and used controls.
- Quotes
Tom Pearson: You told my Dad YOU'D fix it.
Ricky Dillman: I told your dad a lot of things. Like, my car broke down, my parents own a lakehouse, I'm 18.
Tom Pearson: You're not a senior?
Ricky Dillman: Not in high school.
- Crazy creditsOuttakes are shown during the end credits
- ConnectionsFeatured in Great American Road Trip: Gateway to the West (2009)
- SoundtracksMetal Health (Bang Your Head) 2006
Written by Frankie Banali, Carlos Cavazo, Tony Cavazo and Kevin DuBrow
Performed by Quiet Riot
Courtesy of Hands On Productions, LLC
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Pequeños invasores
- Filming locations
- Albany, Auckland, New Zealand(Studio)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,200,412
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,008,423
- Aug 2, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $57,881,056
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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