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Weekend Arena: 7/27 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:03:01 +0000

[…] The Watch: Tower Heist has made me wary of Ben Stiller movies, but the recent New Yorker article about his attention to script detail and his desire to make more movies like Greenberg and The Cable Guy make me want to see this. Sure, it’s another alien-invasion film, but at least it wasn’t released during the Great Invasion-Film Epidemic of 2011. And sure, we get another dose of the all-too-familiar Vince Vaughn-as de-sublimated perpetual adolescent along with Jonah Hill’s nervous / aggressive / older-than-a-young-adult typecasting and a sublimated Indian character who joins the neighborhood watch in hopes of indulging in desperate-housewife-laden fantasies. But, I still have hope for this film. Stiller is funny when his character tries to maintain authority, and – despite the familiarity – Vaughn’s timing is solid. For a brief example, see the scene in the trailer in which the four men stand over a lifeless alien body, filling it with bullets while lamenting that they are hard to kill. Will it be an instant classic? Probably not, but it’ll offer some entertainment if you’ve already seen The Dark Knight Rises. […]

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