Film

Aliens In The Attic

Cert: PG

Description: Teenage swot Tom Pearson heads to a lakeside retreat with his father Stuart, mother Nina and sisters Bethany and Hannah. Uncle Nate and his boys Jake and the twins Art and Lee arrive soon after, accompanied by Nana Rose. In the calm before a meteor shower, four aliens land on Earth, intent on spearheading an invasion. The resourceful youngsters band together to defeat the critters and save mankind.

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Dir: John Schultz.

Cast: Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Austin Robert Butler, Kevin Nealon, Tom Jenkins, Ashley Boettcher, Gillian Vigman

Country: US/Can.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 85mins

Aliens in the Attic is mediocre

Domestic pest: an alien from the attic

By Derek Malcolm
14 Aug 2009

You go on a holiday with your boring old parents to a boring old house in the countryside near your Michigan home.

Just as you think it�s going to be unbearable, you find knee-high alien invaders in the attic.

The Pearson kids - a 15-year-old geek (Carter Jenkins), his big sister (Ashley Tisdale) and a seven-year-old (Ashley Boettcher) � now have to save the world and especially big sister�s boyfriend, whom the aliens turn into a zombie.

The aliens look like cast-offs from a bad Spielberg film and the whole family are boring examples of Hollywood�s ordinary Americans.

But this may suffice for a holiday season that�s not yet given us much in the way of real quality.