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  • 2018
  • PG
  • Viva Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2018
  • PG
  • Viva Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary Growing up as half-orphan with an Ufologist-Dad (Armin Sonntag) who’s obsessed to prove to the whole world that aliens exist, 12 year old Luis hasn’t an easy and certainly not a normal life. As nobody believes Armin Sonntag, not even Luis, it’s quite a big surprise when one day three awkward little aliens (Mog, Nag and Wabo) crash-land r...

Directed By: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein, Sean McCormack

Written By: Jurgen Wolff, Joe Vitale, Jeffrey Hylton, Sean McCormack, Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein

  • 2018
  • PG
  • Viva Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2018
  • PG
  • Viva Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m

Luis and the Aliens

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.8
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Summary Growing up as half-orphan with an Ufologist-Dad (Armin Sonntag) who’s obsessed to prove to the whole world that aliens exist, 12 year old Luis hasn’t an easy and certainly not a normal life. As nobody believes Armin Sonntag, not even Luis, it’s quite a big surprise when one day three awkward little aliens (Mog, Nag and Wabo) crash-land r...

Directed By: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein, Sean McCormack

Written By: Jurgen Wolff, Joe Vitale, Jeffrey Hylton, Sean McCormack, Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein

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46
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70
Aug 16, 2018
It’s a silly, fairly rote animated film, but underneath the hijinks and mishaps is a rather devastatingly sad story. It’s this poignancy that makes Luis & the Aliens a step above the rest.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 13, 2018
The animation is workmanlike in its execution, delivering more seamlessly perfect digital commodity level output.
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40
Aug 24, 2018
This bland and predictable animation about an outsider kid who makes friends with aliens pinches an awful lot of its ideas from superior family films, without reviving any of their wonder or fun.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 16, 2018
Though peppy and bright enough that it might amuse some kids should it show up on a screen in front of them somewhere, it offers no reason for their adult guardians to actually take them someplace to watch it.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.8
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33% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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33% Mixed
2 Ratings
17% Negative
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Production Company Majestic Filmverleih, Telepool, Ulysses Filmproduktion, Fabrique d'Images, A. Film, Luxembourg Film Fund, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (MSH), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Det Danske Filminstitut, Studio Rakete, Global Screen, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, China Film Digital Film Development (Beijing), Copenhagen Film Fund, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Torikami Entertainment
Release Date Aug 17, 2018
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Extra terrestrial. Extra trouble.
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Awards

Luxembourg City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis
• 1 Nomination

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