Nobody plays Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Ben Stiller better than Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Ben Stiller, so luckily that's who shows up for The Watch, a suburban commando pic in which four goofy, f-bomb-loving, vagina-craving, Bud-swilling dudes form a neighborhood watch and end up swearing and shooting at aliens. Vaughn is his usual lovable man-child. Hill is a perverted, profane and slightly psychotic police academy reject. Stiller is his usual stick-in-the-mud who starts the watch when his friend, a drunken security guard, is murdered at Costco, which becomes ground zero for an alien invasion. It's a fun—if insanely disjointed—diversion, with a Seth Rogen-penned script of shit talk and male idiocy going rapid fire like His Girl Friday as imagined by the editors of Maxim. But as the movie jumps between shouting matches and melees, nothing really sticks. By the time the gunfire stops and the well of dick jokes runs dry, it's likely you'll have forgotten pretty much everything that came before...although the final dick joke is pretty hysterical.
- Genres: Comedy, Science fiction
- Release Date: Friday, July 27, 2012
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R [ Pervasive Language, Sexual References, Some Strong Sexual Content, Violent Images ]
- Critic's Score: C+
- Starring: Ben Stiller [], Vince Vaughn [], Jonah Hill [], Richard Ayoade []
- Directed by: Akiva Schaffer [Director], Jared Stern [Screenwriter], Seth Rogen [Screenwriter], Evan Goldberg [Screenwriter], Justin Theroux [Screenwriter], Shawn Levy [Producer], Michael Ewing [Producer], Dan Laurie [Producer]
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