Rental Review - The Watch
The Watch (2012), R, 102 minutes - Ever wonder what your local neighborhood watch does? Keep an eye on your house while you're out of town? Make sure there are no unwanted loiterers running around? Instill a sense of community and security? How about sitting around arguing with each other and drinking beer before saving the world from an alien invasion? As far fetched as that sounds, it is the basis for this comedy starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade. Evan (Stiller) is a go-getter of a community man and the manager of the local Costco who organizes a neighborhood watch group after the security guard his store is brutally murdered. Evan is quite serious about the crime and the continued potential threat to the neighborhood, but the only three guys to show up for his inaugural neighborhood watch meeting - Bob (Vaughn), Franklin (Hill), and Jamarcus (Ayoade) - see it more as an opportunity to hang out with the f...