Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 2/7] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- Excerpt: The Watch does eek out some great moments of hilarity and a few surprisingly gory scenes.
- Peter Canavese @ GrouchoReviews.com
- Excerpt: According to an old showbiz saw, the key to comedy is timing. Well, the new big-budget sci-fi comedy The Watch has a problem there.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: The story feels woefully half-baked, and where it could have been a brilliant comedy, it’s a relatively forgettable one. Take heart in the fact that you should laugh a bit during this experience, even if you forget about it later.
- Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: When the neighborhood watch gets their first call, it turns out to be a prank and they all end up with egg on their faces. Perhaps the filmmakers most inspired joke was an insider critique of their own movie.
- Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
- Excerpt: The only people who will find this funny are those who have an underdeveloped sense of their own sexuality
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: No one can deny that the movie is consistently infantile…
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: It’s called “The Watch” … but you may want to reconsider.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Ill-conceived and incoherent – R-rated for overtly excessive nudity and violence.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Joe Lozito @ Big Picture Big Sound
- Excerpt: This half-baked alien invasion comedy is just barely Watch-able.
- Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: Sadly, like a lot of SNL alumni or proteges, Schaffer has trouble coming up with 100 minutes of funny material.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: With such a promising cast, it’s disappointing that The Watch is so crushingly unfunny.
- Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom
- Excerpt: It is always fun to hear Vaughn’s randomly attention-deficit commentary and Billy Crudup shows up for some nicely creepy moments, but Rosemary DeWitt is wasted in yet another example of the Our Gang (“No Girls Allowed”) school of film comedy. The unfortunate truth is that changing the title just left us with exactly what audiences should not waste time doing . They didn’t bother to write it; you shouldn’t bother to “Watch” it.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: It’s hard not to be sad while enduring The Watch. It’s not because the movie is sad, it’s actually supposed to be a comedy. It’s because it’s depressing to watch so many talented people performing with such desperation. Everyone involved is dying to make you laugh, but they seem to have forgotten everything they know about how to get it done.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Short on inspiration, short on laughs. Short on everything but foul language.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: The Watch won’t go down in history as any of these actor’s finest moments on film, but it is a passable comedy.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Could it be that Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Ben Stiller have lost their respective knacks for making audiences laugh?
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Phil Villarreal @ OK Magazine
- Excerpt: There’s a scene in watch in which the four leads are crammed into a car on a stakeout, complaining about how bored they are.
It’s all too easy to identify.
- Excerpt: There’s a scene in watch in which the four leads are crammed into a car on a stakeout, complaining about how bored they are.
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