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.
"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.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
26 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 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:
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:
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.