It’s not too bad, it’s kind of fun. I mean, it is stupid, of course, look at the title! Something called ‘aliens in the attic’ must be taken for what it is, definitely not too seriously. It’s a teen movie, and the acting skills are like optional, I’d say, but still it’s rather enjoyable. There’s a lot of slapstick comedy, with people falling off the roof and getting back up without a scratch, and a lot of weird faces-movements from the Ricky-character.
It features a family, father mother and teen kids Bethany (Ashley Tisdale) and Tom (Carter Jenkins), and child Hanna (Ashley Boettcher) who go on a family vacation. They rent a house in a place where a meteor shower is expected, and are joined by granma, uncle Nate, cousin Jake and two other cousins, twin brothers.
A little background is provided: Tom is very smart but he fails his school texts on purpose because he wants to be cool, not a nerd. His dad is angry with him because he expect more from him. Bethany is basically Sharpay, the vain girl who only thinks about her handsome boyfriend Ricky and is annoyed by her younger brother. Ricky is stupid but also not nice to Tom and full of lies for his parents. Since Jake’s parents divorced, his father has felt guilty and therefore gives him everything he wants, so now he bullies his brothers and his cousin.
That’s it, and that’s plenty enough, even too much. Less father-preaching-scenes would have been nice.
The story begins when the tv breaks down, and Tom is sent to the roof to check it and repair it. He sees that the dish has been destroyed, and at that point Tom and Jake both see four small aliens, rather aggressive: the Zirconians..
Ricky comes to see what’s taking so long, and he’s hit: the aliens now have complete control over him.
Tom, Jake, Hanna and the twins all see the aliens; they run away and try to lock them in the attic. When they learn that the mind-control weapon only works on adults, they realize they can’t have any adult go near them or they’ll become enemies, so they must fight the aliens themselves.
The kids all fight them in their own different ways, while little, adorable Hannah make friends with the smallest alien, the engineer, called Sparks I think. There is a rather humorous fight between alien-controlled-Ricky and twins-controlled-nana, that ends when she breaks the little device in Ricky’s neck so he’s not controlled anymore, and nana can kick him into another room.
Bethany comes looking for Ricky and sees both the end of the fight and the aliens, so now she’s part of it too.
A sweet moment is when she wants to do something, don’t remember what, but the twins say the won’t do anything without Tom because he’s their leader :-)
As soon as he comes to his senses, Ricky breaks up with Bethany, saying that he knows already which girl to ask out :-/
The aliens take Sparks back and force him to build their machine: they want to call the other aliens to invade the Earth, of course.
The kids make menthos-coke-bombs to throw at them, and Sparks helps them saying to the incoming alien ships to retreat. They fight a bit more and then, I guess the aliens go away. I only remember Sparks going away, and the alien leader being taken by an eagle or something. I don’t remember what happens to the other two..
Now that it’s all finished, they can enjoy their family vacation, and at the end we see that Ricky really went to another girl, only to make a fool of himself because Bethany and Tom still have control over him and make him do a lot of weird stuff…
I mean, Ricky shouldn’t be controlled anymore, but who cares, this is not the kind of movie where these details matter.
During the credits, there is the gag reel, with lots of mis-delivered lines, hitting for real, falling down, props not working, that kind of stuff.
ITA alieni in soffitta
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