Aliens in the Attic (2009) poster
2009 · adventure · comedy · family · fantasy

Aliens in the Attic

Directed by John Schultz1h 26m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.425kRT34%Metacritic42
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • redemptive
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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

Our read · Aliens in the Attic (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want easy vacation-home sci-fi slapstick the whole family can follow.

ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightJuvenile alien capers and potty humor will bore you within ten minutes.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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