The protagonist tanks his grades because he does not want to be perceived as a brainiac. The movie itself does not fake being dumb. It is. The acting is abysmal, the script genuinely idiotic and the, let's say "laughs" can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. Worst of all - they totally wasted Andy Richter - a genuinly funny guy.

This is a terrible film. Do not take your kids. The characters are exceedingly poor role models as are the parents. How on earth do films this bad get greenlighted? Do not waste your money.

Eternal enslavement or instantaneous death are the choices offered by the Zarconians upon first contact with the children on a country house roof. These aliens talk a big game, and yet, it takes them an inordinate amount of time to escape the attic. "Peace is not an option," according to Tazer(Thomas Haden Church), the team leader, but before he and his band of marauding cohorts get down to the business of recovering the hardware buried beneath the house, these aliens start a war, but it's a pretend war, because they're more like playmates than adversaries. The children come after the Zarconians with paintball guns and rakes, and use fireworks to smoke them out of the vents. Even though they're supposedly the higher intelligence, Tom Pearson(Carter Jenkins), along with his siblings and cousins, fend the creatures off with a counterattack more suited for the realm of make-believe. Since the aliens are so diminuitive in size, and conspicuously, never attack the parents(a contrivance built into the film's scaled down approach to H.G. Wells), "Aliens in the Attic" should have gone the "Explorers"(the 1985 film starring River Phoenix) route and made the aliens only children masquerading as a scout team. That would better explain why the young Americans prove to be such formidable opponents to a species who promises imminent death but never delivers(fully mature aliens wouldn't hesitate to kill). "Aliens in the Attic" is unfocused; it wants to be both "The War of the Worlds" and "E.T."(the subplot between the little girl and Sparks). But despite the hodgepodge of influences, a kernel of intelligence perseveres above the post-modern fray, as the filmmaker, perhaps, is trying to say something about how technology plays too big a role in our lives. The aliens have all these cool toys, superior mechanics, but they're stupid(not quite "Critters"-stupid). That's why the story hinges around the father(Kevin Nealon) taking his family to the countryside for some fishing.… Expand

Daniel S. must be a 8 year old kid, within this movies target ages of probably 7 to 11. This movie for me was one that I walked out of.

Honestly, I'd rather just pull out an old copy of Spaced Invaders and show that to the kids than this. And I just might, I miss that movie.

This movie was hilarious. We took our kid twice in one weekend and he laughed his head off both times. Ignore the lame CGI aliens. Who cares about bad CGI anyway? The jokes are hilarious and the cast has a lot of charisma.

Who the F cares if there's aliens in the attic? THis has E.T rip off written all over it. I hope those five year olds enjoy because not very many others will.

It is what it is. If you went to see it and you don't have young kids, it's your fault! I have two young children, they liked it, I laughed quite a bit. A much better movie than many and not as bad as the butcher job they made out of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- which was a snooze fest.

The first five to ten minutes or so is actually pretty good w. the interplay of pre-teens, teenagers, and young adults—then the alien plot starts. The aliens aren’t scary, aren’t interesting, aren’t amusing, aren’t much of anything and the writers seem to have been suffering from writer’s block. What they put together is stupid in concept and stupid in substance. Perhaps nerdy teenagers might be amused by the story—I wasn’t. it’s harmless but so totally limp.… Expand

AMAZING! Great movie, soo funny! really good acting... specially for Ashley! she was one of the best! the movie is a really family movie! excellent!

Wasn't a great movie. It was mostly dull and the acting was never great. A bit of a flop to be honest.

This film is as lifeless and generic as a corpse. It tries so hard to be funny that it becomes very distasteful. The humour won't even appeal to kids, the plot is generic and the acting is poor. Don't watch.

Unfunny, unoriginal, unnecessary. These are the three words that would describe this trash that I wouldn't call a movie. Seeing this is the same as torturing yourself.

I expected it to have a dumb story and be unfunny, but it turned out to be somewhat funny and amusing. The acting and story are slightly above average.