"Touch my goo, Bob!"
The Watch is a very tepid sci-fi comedy. The humour is mostly lacklustre, and the dramatic elements are too lightweight and an uncomfortable fit to the movie. The film does sporadically come to life - the quartet's gleeful playing with the 'destruction ray' ball is a good example - but there are many stretches during which the story does not advance or scenes simply feel overstretched and not very interesting. Stiller, Vaughn and Hill give their usual stock character performances, whilst Ayoade is given little with which to work - the four leads seldom spark off each other, unlike the camaraderie of the Ghostbusters team, and it is hard to imagine that Stiller's character would tolerate the other three in his life at all. A surprisingly lively (if brief) finale is very welcome, but overall The Watch barely bumps along as average.
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