I hated just about everyone in this movie, especially the character Carter Jenkins plays. I don't know how he can get a lead role in anything, unless they are trying to go in a direction where the audiences would hate him. Not only does he have a douche face to go with his douche personality, he is a dork which is fine if he is a dork but he is also a cocky dork in this movie. Ricky Dillman(Robert Hoffman) is the only character that made this movie even remotely watchable and he is the supposed bad guy, maybe because he looks like a product of Abercrombie. But he doesn't seem that bad in till the very end of the film where it is shown that he really is a sleaze, maybe it's because Carter Jenkins is more irritating, pretentious, ungrateful, immature and just plain whinny. On summer vacation the Pearson family go to a lake house to spend some family time where the kids especially Carter Jenkins character constantly complains about and I started to wish he was born in Africa with no clothes on his back because that is how annoying he was. Anyways some aliens crash land n top of there roof and plans to take over the world and these aliens are far from intimidating. So the kids try to stop the aliens themselves because they are the only ones that are cannot be controlled by the mind controlling device while adults can be controlled, so the kids try to keep it a secret from the adults. Which was a cheap idea not to get adults involved because it's a kids movie, and doesn't explain why only adults can be controlled. But than again it doesn't explain how at first the aliens have a difficult time speaking English and needs to use a translator but speak English with other aliens and even start to speak Spanish out of nowhere. The only entertaining part about this film is the parts where where they remote control the humans, in fact my favorite part of the movie was the fight scene between Ricky Dillman and Nana Rose Pearson(Doris Roberts) while they are being controlled. I found it pretty hysterical when Nana started pulling off "Street Fighter" moves. In conclusion young kids might like this movie, but people above the age of 10 won't enjoy it as much, except for a couple of scenes shown in the trailer. Oh and the CGI is really weak as well, if the whole movie was CGI it would have been okay though.
4.6/10
4.6/10