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Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Director: John Schultz
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
A bottom-feeder on the food chain of imitation Spielberg, Aliens in the Attic finds a group of kids fending off an extraterrestrial invasion in a Michigan summer home. The visitors’ mind-control devices work on adults but not adolescents or children; that’s a shame, because putting your kids under real-life mind control would probably be the only way they’d enjoy this crass and slapdash effort, whose high point involves grandma Doris Roberts demonstrating her martial-arts skills on Tisdale’s boyfriend (Hoffman).
Author: Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago
Cast & crew
Director: John Schultz
Cast: Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Austin Robert Butler, Robert Hoffman, Kevin Nealon, Tim Meadows, Andy Richter, Gillian Vigman, Ashley Boettcher, Doris Roberts, Thomas Haden Church, Josh Peck, JK Simmons full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Rated: PG
Duration: 86 mins
US Release: Aug 7 2009
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