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Article: A cute diversion, nothing more.(YourSaturday)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Byline: Roger Moore; The Orlando Sentinel
A children's movie mix of live-action and animation, "Aliens in the Attic" has a few positive messages, a few laughs and a few comic throwdowns, one involving Doris Roberts of "Everybody Loves Raymond" going all "Crouching Tiger" on an alien-controlled frat boy.
Hilarious? No. But will you hate your kids for begging to see it? Nooooo.
An extended family gathers in a big Victorian rental home in the country. There's Tom, the "Math-lete" (Carter Jenkins), Jake the alpha male (Austin Butler), Tom's dating-a-college-guy sister (Ashley Tisdale of "High School Musical"), baby sister Hannah (Ashley Boettcher) ...