Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.
A film packaged as pure product, aiming to snare the combined markets for loudmouth comics, sci-fi action and, er, Richard Ayoade - who, however seemingly misplaced, is the freshest thing here.
– Guy Lodge,
Time Out,
21 Aug 2012
rotten:
It's a mash-up of blah buddy comedy and gross-out CGI monster splatter, with nary a laugh to be had.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Aug 2012
rotten:
The Watch is a predictable and lazy comedy wrapped around a penis joke occasionally enlivened with some funny lines.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
27 Jul 2012
rotten:
What should have been at least Ghostbusters lite ends up sliming audiences with sloppy seconds.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jul 2012
rotten:
"The Watch" takes the same ethos of male bonding, obsession with sex and sardonic violence that has proved so profitable in recent years on yet another summer spin.