John Schultz
Faced with a cute moppet and adorable aliens, resistance is futile. When an advance team of Zirkonians lands on their vacation home, it is up to Tom, his sister Hannah and their cousins to stop them.
Luckily, Sparks the four-armed techie turns out to be a sweet thing who decides that an invasion would be wrong. The agreeably paced film has some laughs and surprises, and is not just for tykes.
When Tom and company decide to call the police after first encountering the aliens, the last thing they think of using is the old-fashioned rotary telephone, a device that might as well be from another planet.
And who can resist watching Nana (Everybody Loves Raymond’s Doris Roberts) duke it out with college jock Ricky (Robert Hoffman grinning goofily away) as they are both being manipulated like human puppets through the use of remote controls?
Just surrender to the moment.
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