Aliens in the Attic

2009
PG
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

25K

YOUR RATING

Thomas Haden Church, Josh Peck, J.K. Simmons, Ashley Tisdale, Kari Wahlgren, Carter Jenkins, Ashley Boettcher, Austin Butler, Henri Young, and Regan Young in Aliens in the Attic (2009)

In Maine, a group of teenagers must protect their vacation home from the aliens who have taken over the top floor of the dwelling.

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Alien Invasion Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi

A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

25K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

Trivia
When the kids are interrogating Sparks they ask him what his weakness is and one of the twins says "Water? Earth germs?". These are references to two well known alien related films; in Signs the alien's weakness is water and in War of the Worlds their weakness is the common cold.

Goofs
At the end of the fight between Ricky and Nana (at around 1h 02 mins), the control plug is knocked out of Ricky's neck, but at the end of the film, immediately after "The End" appears (at around 1h 19 mins), he is shown at Annie Filkins' house where Bethany and Tom use a controller to control him again.

The kids kept the gun from the aliens and Tom mentioned to Bethany that Ricky's car was broken down and he's not going anywhere. It's likely Tom and Bethany shot Ricky with the gun again and used controls.

Quotes
Hannah Pearson: Dad's coming and he's mad.
Tom Pearson: With who?
Hannah Pearson, Stuart Pearson: Tom!

Crazy credits
Outtakes are shown during the end credits

Connections
Featured in Great American Road Trip: Gateway to the West (2009)

Soundtracks
Metal Health (Bang Your Head) 2006
Written by Frankie Banali, Carlos Cavazo, Tony Cavazo and Kevin DuBrow
Performed by Quiet Riot
Courtesy of Hands On Productions, LLC

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Featured review

8/10

Entertaining family movie, don't be swayed by the negative comments and rating

Don't be mislead by the overall rating, we found this movie very entertaining when in needed of some light entertainment for the evening!

Yes the story is run of the mill seen before stuff but it was well put together and flowed well enough, it certainly took me back to my childhood and the weekly trip to the video shop with my dad to rent a family film for the night, and can only imagine it would be great for kids (unfortunately ours is not old enough yet to appreciate anything other than tellytubies).

I definitely put it up with all the good old 80's classics like goonies, back to the future etc, as a no brains good old adventure... can also recommend spiderwick chronicles as a similar fantasy adventure film!