Suburban dads who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion.
An unabashed crowd-pleaser...squarely down to its uproarious banter, co-scripted by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and delivered with aplomb by an on-form ensemble.
By the end you want to mercy-shoot everyone involved.
The result of all this is an extraordinarily lame sci-fi caper – the type of film one might imagine being dreamt up by someone charged with updating Ghostbusters having only seen Ghostbusters II.
Lacking the bite of Attack The Block, Stiller and co. are happy to fall back on their usual shtick, with director Schaffer providing barely enough juice to power the laughs.
This comedy about a small-town Ohio neighbourhood watch team battling aliens has a cast to kill for but is totally laugh free.
Lazy and indulgent, it's about as funny as being burgled while you are away on holiday.
Nobody emerges from this smelling of roses and Vaughn is now officially the Hollywood star you would most like to see announcing their retirement.
The plotting is so haphazard and the dialogue so tin-eared that this soon becomes a very painful watch indeed.
The Watch is unwatchable.
Altogether a deeply dislikable damp squib of a picture.
Seems to be promising prospect on paper, but is abysmal on the screen.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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