TelegraphBen Stiller plays a do-gooding dullard who forms an alien-battling Neighbourhood Watch with Vince Vaughan, Jonah Hill and Ri...
The GuardianThis comedy about a small-town Ohio neighbourhood watch team battling aliens has a cast to kill for but is totally laugh free
Entertainment WeeklyThe Watch, a passing mess of a comedy about four mismatched guys who form a patrol in their suburban Ohio neighborhood follo...
ReelViewsComedy-based "science fiction" needn't be universally appalling but, to work, it has to be handled with more skill and care ...
JobloStill, THE WATCH isn't awful- or, at least, outside the first 15 minutes it isn't. I laughed a few times, and I'm sure it's ...
FirstShowingAnd that's what The Watch does best, making you laugh for the bulk of its running time.
Film School RejectsLots of laughs; fantastic cast chemistry; Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller remind us why we once thought they were funny; Richar...
The Philadelphia InquirerAyoade, the writer and director of last year's charming U.K. indie Submarine, brings a stranger-in-a-strange-land naiveté to...
The Boston GlobeIt's another one of those loud, penis-obsessed bro farces, lazily written (by actor Seth Rogen, among others) and haphazardl...
New York Daily NewsIt has bodily humor that tilts so far out of funny they land in "clinically embarrassing." And it makes Ben Stiller, Vince V...
Los Angeles TimesSome of the phallic jokes work, others are really lame. Fortunately there are many other funny bits that have nothing to do ...
The New York TimesDirected by Akiva Schaffer from a screenplay by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the movie clumsily juggles two lo...
San Francisco ChronicleWe're talking about a dozen or so taken-by-surprise, spontaneous and genuine "Ha!" moments. And always one "ha," never two.
Entertainment WeeklyDirector Akiva Schaffer, excellent when directing and co-writing SNL Digital Shorts, has his hands full just trying to attac...
New York PostThe "action" scenes come across as brief, noisy periods of rest from the lame comedy, which counts for something, if not qui...
Washington Post"=The Watch"= takes the same ethos of male bonding, obsession with sex and sardonic violence that has proved so profitable i...
Rolling StoneWhat should have been at least Ghostbusters lite ends up sliming audiences with sloppy seconds.
Film FractureThere is humor aplenty in "The Watch", but it becomes too bogged down with emotional triflles despite its potential at being...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Writer: Seth Rogen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt
Release: July 27, 2012
Writer: Seth Rogen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt
Release: July 27, 2012
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