Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood - and the world - from total extermination.
Cast
Production
| Director: | Akiva Schaffer |
| Producer: | Shawn Levy (producer) |
| Tom McNulty (producer) | |
| Billy Rosenberg (co-producer) | |
| Blondel Aidoo (co-producer) | |
| Monica Levinson (executive producer) | |
| Daniel S. Levine (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Evan Goldberg (written by) |
| Seth Rogen (written by) &) | |
| Jared Stern (written by) and) |
Reviews for The Watch
Mania.com
Not a single action that takes place in The Watch conforms to any known standards of human behavior. There are no characters here, at least none that we might recognize as actual people. They exist as Comedic Delivery Devices, adhering to a hot mess...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Aisle Seat
The Watch is a watered-down hybrid of about half a dozen other movies, and that's the problem. Doing something that's already been done before is a dicey proposition to begin with; doing it without bringing anything new to the table is an invitation to...
Reel Film Reviews
It's almost impossible to believe that The Watch comes from the same man behind the gleefully irreverent Hot Rod, as the film is, for the most part, a hopelessly mundane and aggressively conventional comedy that bears few (if any) similarities to its...
Read review29 Jul 2012
The Charlotte Observer
In “The Watch,” the neighborhood-watch-discovers-an-alien-invasion comedy, he’s second banana to Ben Stiller, trying like heck to keep from being third-billed to Jonah Hill. So he’s back to his old self, riffing like a fiend, improvising nicknames for...
Read review26 Jul 2012
7M Pictures
There was something both intriguing and off-putting about the trailers for the film “The Watch.” No, it has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin shooting, though I know that news story threw the film’s marketing into a tizzy earlier this year.
External Links
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt1298649/ |
| Box Office Mojo: | www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=neighborhoodwatch.htm |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/neighborhood_watch_2012/ |
| Metacritic: | www.metacritic.com/movie/neighborhood-watch |
| Wikipedia: | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Watch_(2012_film) |
| www.facebook.com/thewatchmovie |
Articles
The Watch has released a new red-band trailer online that comes across as half teaser, half gag-reel. As a result, it's pretty damn funny! Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade star as a quartet of suburban misfits who
George Wales(totalfilm.com) - 2012-07-26
Reviews for The Watch
Mania.com
Not a single action that takes place in The Watch conforms to any known standards of human behavior. There are no characters here, at least none that we might recognize as actual people. They exist as Comedic Delivery Devices, adhering to a hot mess...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Aisle Seat
The Watch is a watered-down hybrid of about half a dozen other movies, and that's the problem. Doing something that's already been done before is a dicey proposition to begin with; doing it without bringing anything new to the table is an invitation to...
Reel Film Reviews
It's almost impossible to believe that The Watch comes from the same man behind the gleefully irreverent Hot Rod, as the film is, for the most part, a hopelessly mundane and aggressively conventional comedy that bears few (if any) similarities to its...
Read review29 Jul 2012
The Charlotte Observer
In “The Watch,” the neighborhood-watch-discovers-an-alien-invasion comedy, he’s second banana to Ben Stiller, trying like heck to keep from being third-billed to Jonah Hill. So he’s back to his old self, riffing like a fiend, improvising nicknames for...
Read review26 Jul 2012
7M Pictures
There was something both intriguing and off-putting about the trailers for the film “The Watch.” No, it has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin shooting, though I know that news story threw the film’s marketing into a tizzy earlier this year.
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Lord knows, after last week's tragic events, we could sure use a nice, cheeky comedy to lighten us all up, but despite a fun premise, and a strong core cast, THE WATCH is far too uneven to fit the bill. This should have been a slam-dunk, with Stiller...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Atlantic City Weekly
The Watch already had a strike against it before it was released. Originally titled Neighborhood Watch, that title was abandoned after the shooting death in Florida of a 17-year-old by an over-zealous ...
Read review1 Aug 2012
FirstShowing.net
Aliens are all the rage these days. Even the Frat Pack - Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, at least - is going up against beings from outer space who want to wipe us out in gruesome fashion. The Watch, the film where all of that happens, is a fine comedy...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Mark Reviews Movies
One can only assume a good portion of The Watch was improvised by its actors. Many of the jokes are long, rambling discussions of useless information and stupid plans. The occasional jump cuts to an actor at a different angle once the riffing is...
Read review26 Jul 2012
CinemaDope
If the new Ben Stiller comedy “The Watch” feels a tad familiar, it’s because it’s a quasi-rip-off of the infinitely funnier kick-ass Brit comedy “Attack the Block.” In the U.K. release, a gang of South London kids collect their bats and chains and ...
Screen Jabber
On paper, The Watch looks terrific. It's got three decent Hollywood stars in Stiller, Vaughan and Hill, along with much-loved Brit Ayoeda (who is clearly destined for big things Stateside). It's got an interesting Neighbourhood Watch set-up.
RedEye
Just because 20th Century Fox changed the film's title from “Neighborhood Watch” to “The Watch” doesn't mean the comedy about an (eventually) gun-toting neighborhood watch group plays any better a few months after the death of Trayvon Martin.
Read review26 Jul 2012
MediaMikes
Remember those old commercials for Certs? “It’s a breath mint,” they’d say. No, “it’s a candy mint.” It was really “two…two…two mints in one.” I bring this up because the new film “The Watch” is like a Certs. Actually many Certs.
Read review27 Jul 2012
New York Post
‘The Watch” is a comedy about a baffling and revolting alien life-form: Ohioans. By extension, the joke is on any American striver who doesn’t have a groovy urban job. This time, when audience members walk out saying, “It slimed me,” they won’t be...
Read review26 Jul 2012
Christian Science Monitor
In the new Ben Stiller comedy “The Watch,” four guys come together in suburban Glenview, Ohio, to form a neighborhood-watch group after a series of gruesome and inexplicable murders. They should have been on the look-out for theaters playing...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Eric D. Snider
Not much about “The Watch” is surprising, though whether that’s good or bad depends on your view. The sophomorically dirty R-rated comedy has performances by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade that are approximately what you’d...
Groucho Reviews
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. The laugher about a self-appointed “neighborhood watch” doing what the cops can’t comes just five months after a neighborho
Shadows on the Wall
The Watch This is an oddly foul-spirited comedy from writers Stern (Mr Popper's Penguins) and Rogen and Goldberg (Pineapple Express), who are usually more adept at finding character-based laughs than merely taking cheap shots.
Read review2 Aug 2012
MovieXclusive.com
At some point during the brainstorming process of The Watch, someone realised that seeing a bunch of helpless, terrified people shuddering at the thought of an impending alien invasion just won’t cut it anymore and threw down the idea of making a...
TotalFilm.com
Originally called ‘Neighbourhood Watch’, The Watch was re-titled after the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by an armed volunteer.
Read review20 Aug 2012
Science Fiction Flim
Last year saw an attempt to cross the science fiction film with the western with Cowboys and Aliens. This year we get The Watch, mixing the moron guy comedy with yet another alien invasion story. It’s The Hangover meets Attack the Block.
Channel24
The Watch is the latest addition to that family of films that attempts to marry supernatural fantasy to comedic hijinks. It is a marriage that has borne some successful fruit (Ghostbusters, Men in Black) but, admittedly, there have also been a few bad...
Read review11 Sep 2012
doddleNEWS
Neither an in-depth look at the internal mechanisms of a specific timepiece, nor a noir-ish character study of some tortured voyeur peering through grime-encrusted blinds at hapless young dames … consider The Watch as a lame monster mash-up.
Read review26 Jul 2012
One Guy's Opinion
In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida, the studio altered the title of this brainless comedy from “Neighborhood Watch” to the current stripped-down version. They should have kept the name and changed everything else instead.
Film4
Ghostbusters meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this bromantic sci-fi comedy from Hot Rod and Saturday Night Live director Akiva Schaffer. Ben Stiller plays an uptight Costco manager who founds a neighbourhood watch group to help track down a...
iHaveNet.com
Timing is everything in comedy. When a neighborhood-watch volunteer was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin earlier this year -- in real life, that is -- 20th Century Fox changed the title of its forthcoming comedy from...
Fan The Fire
When I saw The Expendables a couple of years ago, the giddy audience was pretty pumped up on the idea of seeing 80s/90s action heroes running around shooting things. There were whoops and cheers during the opening credits when the requisite names...
Read review16 Aug 2012
Sacramento News & Review
An Ohio Costco manager (Ben Stiller) forms a neighborhood watch in the wake of a grisly murder in his store, but his only volunteers (Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade) are a pretty unfocused and none-too-bright crew.
Read review2 Aug 2012
stltoday.com
If this movie wanders into your neighborhood, the only watch that will hold your attention is the timepiece on your wrist.
Read review27 Jul 2012
Movies.com
Last summer, a cool little action-comedy from England came to the U.S. It was called Attack the Block. It was about a gang of teenage criminals in a rough London neighborhood who discover that aliens have invaded their housing project.
Houston Press
Complacency is as big a problem in Hollywood as anywhere else. Just as long-time spouses can fall into depressingly familiar patterns and employees may become dangerously comfortable in non-challenging positions, so too do studios tend to stick with...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Time Out London
American superstore Costco gets an iffy amount of brand exposure in this marginally amusing alien-invasion comedy: it provides employment for Ben Stiller’s milquetoast hero and houses a climactic, explosives-heavy showdown between man and...
SFX
Seemingly perfect, placid suburban neighbourhoods harbouring a dark secret have been fodder for movies for years now, exploited to great effect by the likes of Tim Burton, who’s mined creepy characters and oddball comedy from the concept.
Read review28 Aug 2012
Empire
Lacking the bite of Attack The Block, Stiller and co. are happy to fall back on their usual shtick, with director Schaffer providing barely enough juice to power the laughs.
Cast
| Jonah Hill | ... | Franklin |
 | Ben Stiller | ... | Evan |
| Vince Vaughn | ... | Bob |
 | R. Lee Ermey | ... | Manfred |
| Doug Jones | ... | Hero Alien |
| Johnny Pemberton | ... | Skater Kid |
| Liz Cackowski | ... | Carla | |
 | Rosemarie DeWitt | ... | Abby |
| Richard Ayoade | ... | Jamarcus |
| Nicholas Braun | ... | Jason |
| Will Forte | ... | Sgt. Bressman |
| Joe Nunez | ... | Antonio Guzman |
| Erin Moriarty | ... | Chelsea |
| Mel Rodriguez | ... | Chucho |
| Sharon Gee | ... | Mrs. Kim | |
 | Jorma Taccone | ... | Casual Wanker #2 |
 | Cathy Shim | ... | Asian Housewife |
 | Carissa Capobianco | ... | Mandy |
 | Patricia French | ... | Franklin's Mom |
| Zack Mines | ... | Prom Date | |
| LaDonna Allison | ... | Orgy Woman #3 | |
| Thomas Elliott | ... | Male Hooters Volunteer | |
| Paul Barlow Jr. | ... | City Council Member | |
 | Eric Goins | ... | Random Jogger - Jared |
| Sean Goulding | ... | Costco Employee - TV | |
| Robert C. Sibley | ... | Retiree #1 | |
| Grace Fronebarger | ... | Retiree #2 | |
| Bonnie Silver | ... | Retiree #3 | |
| Amy Napier Viteri | ... | Reporter | |
| Ryan Girard | ... | Paul's Guest #1 | |
 | Katie Kneeland | ... | Paul's Guest #2 |
 | Ted Huckabee | ... | Orgy Man #1 |
| Jeremiah Williams | ... | Orgy Man #2 | |
| Ethan Shapanka | ... | Orgy Man #3 | |
 | Marla Malcolm | ... | Orgy Woman #1 |
| Lindsey Coley | ... | Orgy Woman #2 | |
 | Andy Samberg | ... | Casual Wanker #1 |
| Kelsey Talley | ... | Twins | |
| Melia Talley | ... | Twins | |
 | Erinn Hayes | ... | Bob's Wife |
| Emilee Yuye Sikes | ... | Evan's Daughter | |
 | Dax Flame | ... | Teenage Announcer |
 | Akiva Schaffer | ... | Casual Wanker #3 |
 | Willam Belli | ... | Olivia (uncredited) |
 | Billy Crudup | ... | Neighbor (uncredited) |
 | Justin Wheelon | ... | Kyle (uncredited) |
 | Bonnie Johnson | ... | Lady at Costco (uncredited) |
 | Cait Johnson | ... | Party Goer (uncredited) |
| Hillary Brant | ... | Chelsea's Friend (uncredited) | |
| Bradford Haynes | ... | Head Football Coach (uncredited) | |
| Jonathan Hart | ... | Teen Party Goer (uncredited) | |
 | Alexander Isaiah Thomas | ... | College Student (uncredited) |
| Kathryn Dickerson | ... | Party Goer (uncredited) | |
| Timothy J. Richardson | ... | Cop (uncredited) | |
| Joshua Andrew Davies | ... | Shopper (uncredited) | |
 | Bill Pacer | ... | Older orgy dude (uncredited) |
| Taylor Prezzano | ... | High School Football Crowd (uncredited) | |
 | Joel Rogers | ... | Costco Shopper - Mr. Rogers (uncredited) |
| Jade Nicolette | ... | Bike Girl (uncredited) | |
| Harley Shellhammer | ... | Jogger (uncredited) | |
| Liz Smallwood | ... | Dominatrix (uncredited) | |
 | Todd Maynor | ... | Costco Shopper (uncredited) |
| Kathlene Huslin | ... | Fan at Football Game (uncredited) | |
| Jaye Tyroff | ... | Football Player (uncredited) | |
| Canute Brown-Morgan | ... | Football Fan (uncredited) | |
| Hanna Frankel | ... | Additional Voices (uncredited) | |
| Jaquail E. Myers | ... | Extra (uncredited) | |
 | Lisa M. Barfield | ... | Playground Parent (uncredited) |
| Candace Blanchard | ... | Grapefruit Lady (uncredited) | |
| Miller Carbon | ... | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Derek Ryan Duke | ... | Extra (uncredited) | |
 | Jon Gould | ... | City Oficial (uncredited) |
| Zack Kibria | ... | Costco Customer (uncredited) | |
| Pete Pelfrey | ... | Give-A-Hooter Volunteer (uncredited) | |
 | Denise Pereira | ... | Onlooker (uncredited) |
| Benjamin Reed | ... | Shopper (uncredited) | |
| Valeri Rogers | ... | Party Girl (uncredited) | |
 | Jacqueline Marie Zwick | ... | Lady with Stroller (uncredited) |
| William j Barry | ... | Football Fan (uncredited) | |
 | Kristopher Higgins | ... | Smart Ass Kid (uncredited) |
 | Landon Hoffman | ... | Football Fan (uncredited) |
| Cassidy Layden | ... | Costco Shopper (uncredited) | |
| Grace Layden | ... | Costco Shopper (uncredited) | |
| Michael D. Layden | ... | Costco Shopper (uncredited) | |
 | Ramona McGowan | ... | Holly (uncredited) |
 | Nickolas Wolf | ... | Boy on Bike (uncredited) |
| Tonya Baines | ... | Fan (uncredited) | |
 | David Dillon | ... | Costco Shopper (uncredited) |
 | King | ... | Football Fan (uncredited) |
| Garrick Parks | ... | Fan (uncredited) | |
 | David Jason Perez | ... | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
Production
| Director: | Akiva Schaffer |
| Producer: | Shawn Levy (producer) |
| Tom McNulty (producer) | |
| Billy Rosenberg (co-producer) | |
| Blondel Aidoo (co-producer) | |
| Monica Levinson (executive producer) | |
| Daniel S. Levine (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Evan Goldberg (written by) |
| Seth Rogen (written by) &) | |
| Jared Stern (written by) and) | |
| Composer: | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematographer: | Barry Peterson (director of photography) |
| Editing: | Dean Zimmerman |
| Casting: | Alyssa Weisberg |
| Production Design: | Doug J. Meerdink |
| Set Decorator: | Cindy Carr |
| Costume Design: | Wendy Chuck |
| Makeup: | Tony Gardner (makeup effects department head) |
| Lisa Layman (makeup department head) | |
| Sarah Mays (personal makeup artist: Ben Stiller) | |
| Gloria Pasqua Casny (hair department head) | |
| Randa Squillacote (key hair stylist) | |
| Steve Artmont (makeup artist: Mr. Vaughn) | |
| Bill Johnson (key makeup effects assistant) | |
| Duane Saylor (key makeup artist) | |
| Katrina Suhre (additional hair stylist) | |
| Timothy Huizing (special makeup effects artist) | |
| Production Management: | Chris Dowell (post-production supervisor) |
| Monica Levinson (unit production manager) | |
| Adam McCarthy (production supervisor: second unit) | |
| Robert West (production supervisor: additional photography) | |
| Noelle Green (production supervisor) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | 21 Laps Entertainment |
| 20th Century Fox |
| United States | 27 Jul 2012 | |
| Canada | 27 Jul 2012 | |
| Sweden | 10 Aug 2012 | |
| Belgium | 15 Aug 2012 | |
| Serbia | 16 Aug 2012 | |
 | Azerbaijan | 23 Aug 2012 |
 | Belarus | 23 Aug 2012 |
| Denmark | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Kazakhstan | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Russian Federation | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Slovenia | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Romania | 24 Aug 2012 | |
| Bulgaria | 31 Aug 2012 | |
| Dominican Republic | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| Germany | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| France | 12 Sep 2012 | |
| Australia | 13 Sep 2012 | |
| New Zealand | 13 Sep 2012 | |
| Peru | 20 Sep 2012 | |
| Guatemala | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Panama | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Poland | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Venezuela | 12 Oct 2012 | |
 | Iceland | 15 Aug 2012 |
| Netherlands | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| United Kingdom | 24 Aug 2012 | |
| Lithuania | 31 Aug 2012 | |
| Portugal | 13 Sep 2012 | |
| Brazil | 14 Sep 2012 | |
 | Georgia | 16 Aug 2012 |
| Estonia | 17 Aug 2012 | |
| Pakistan | 20 Aug 2012 | |
| Croatia | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Singapore | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| Ireland | 24 Aug 2012 | |
| Philippines | 5 Sep 2012 | |
| Ecuador | 7 Sep 2012 | |
| Taiwan | 7 Sep 2012 | |
| Puerto Rico | 8 Sep 2012 | |
| Greece | 13 Sep 2012 | |
| Costa Rica | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| El Salvador | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Finland | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Honduras | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Nicaragua | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Vietnam | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Chile | 27 Sep 2012 | |
| Czech Republic | 27 Sep 2012 | |
| Mexico | 28 Sep 2012 | |
| Bolivia | 18 Oct 2012 | |
| Hungary | 18 Oct 2012 | |
| Colombia | 19 Oct 2012 | |
| Spain | 19 Oct 2012 | |
| Italy | 8 Nov 2012 | |
| Uruguay | 23 Nov 2012 | |
| Japan | 2 Mar 2013 | |
 | Qatar | 23 Aug 2012 |
