Low-brow comedy reigns supreme in “The Watch,” a dumb story in which members of a neighborhood watch group stumble upon an alien plot to invade the Earth. Director Akiva Schaffer (“Hot Rod” 2007) and screenwriters Jared Stern, Seth Rogan, and Evan Goldberg turned out trash that was a bomb at the box office for 20th Century Fox.
The cast includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Erin Moriarty, Nicholas Braun, Will Forte, Mel Rodriguez, and R. Lee Ermey in his final film role, in a career that began in 1978 and 1979 in “The Boys in Company C” and “Apocalypse Now.”
The Watch (2012)
cinema
My Review
Low-brow comedy reigns supreme in “The Watch,” a dumb story in which members of a neighborhood watch group stumble upon an alien plot to invade the Earth. Director Akiva Schaffer (“Hot Rod” 2007) and screenwriters Jared Stern, Seth Rogan, and Evan Goldberg turned out trash that was a bomb at the box office for 20th Century Fox.
The cast includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Erin Moriarty, Nicholas Braun, Will Forte, Mel Rodriguez, and R. Lee Ermey in his final film role, in a career that began in 1978 and 1979 in “The Boys in Company C” and “Apocalypse Now.”