Luis and the Aliens

The animation was on the basic side, and the aliens were silly, but it does have a nice story and, above all, it was funny. I laughed several times. The theme of Luis reconnecting with his father was heartwarming if a bit cliched. Rating: 7/10

I love the twist begin after 30 min after of film. Love this one

Obviously a low budget film - but a good one. It turns a boy-meets-alien story into a witty knockabout comedy, that passes by in a breeze. My kids laughed a lot and i had a smile on my face over the entire running time. Of course the animation is far away from Disney, Pixar & Co, but i wonder how their movies would look, if they were made with a budget of only 5 mio instead of 100 mio dollar. My respect to all the small production companies in the world.

Was not sure about seeing 'Luis and the Aliens', due to it looking terrible when it was advertised in cinemas, indicating a competent looking film with a lot of cringe-worthy humour, annoying characters, no charm and with no surprises or excitement to the story. Saw it though as a huge lifelong fan of animation and as someone trying to see as many 2018 films as possible (which has been a worthwhile and interesting if very hit and miss experience). Just to make things clear for anybody in the future coming to slam anybody for disliking the film, which is unfortunately sadly going to happen, this review is not coming from somebody with the prejudiced intent to dislike the film and trying hard not to when watching. Actually genuinely wanted 'Luis and the Aliens' to be much better than it looked in the trailers, and thought it could do seeing as there have been numerous examples of films with bad or misleading trailers that manage to be between the decent to wonderful distinctions. Am also, despite being a young adult, a child at heart and am on the most part very generous when it comes to reviewing animation, so do feel it's right for me to judge the film as a "family" (not kids, animation is for family not just kids in answer to the overused and abused "it's a kids film" cliché thrown around constantly) film. On that front, 'Luis and the Aliens' fails. There are definitely far worse animated films out there, at least effort was put into the animation itself and the film didn't insult my intelligence as much. There are also infinitely better animations, which won't be named in order to be fair. Not quite one of the very worst films of the year (though towards the bottom), but of the 2018 animated films it's one of the worst by quite some way to me. Was really hoping it would be much better than the trailers indicated, but sadly it is exactly what was indicated. 'Luis and the Aliens' has a few redeeming values. The best asset is the animation, which was clearly the asset where the most effort was put into. Although the alien designs are generic the colours are bright and bold, there are moments of nice visual touches and the backgrounds are attractive and richly detailed. Music is also suitably peppy and a few of the voice actors come over credibly, Luis in particular is voiced with a lot of spirit. However, there are several big drawbacks. Although mostly the animation was fine, the character designs could have done with smoother movement and more care, found some of them stiff and blocky. Most of the voice acting has very little emotion or engagement, either sounding bored or grating on the nerves. The writing is every bit as bad, very stilted and childish and enough to make older audiences feel insulted. Even the most unassuming youngster may very likely feel embarrassed. Excepting Luis, none of the characters were interesting, entertaining or had likeable traits. The aliens are irritating and the antagonist is as flat, un-threatening and vaguely characterised as one can possibly get. Development for them is not just sketchy, it's practically non-existent. Did not mind that the story was predictable and slight, quite a lot of films have stories that are both yet they still manage to be halfway decent because everything else makes up for it and they are at least still interesting. With most elements here executed badly and that there is practically nothing to the story, it is less forgivable and it feels like an over-extended modest-at-best budget animated show stretched to feature length. The sporadic action is unexciting, while the humour is embarrassingly juvenile, the storytelling is so by-the-numbers and colourless and there is a complete lack of warmth and charm. Overall, not a complete disaster but not really an alien adventure worth experiencing, other than as an animation fan or a 2018 film completest. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Animation is not as good as other popular animation in this modern age. But still so far it's good to watch. This movie has a good story.

I enjoyed the heart warming.film from the beginning to the end. The aliens were so cute and funny.

The most wonderful movie ever!!! Its idea rocks!It is my favorite movie of all times!!

This movie is truly terrible, there are no redeeming factors at all. The animation is awful but at the same time it isn't painful to look at, but that makes it worse. The voice acting is absolutely atrocious and coupled with it's terrible script makes it all the more aggravating to listen to, and the plot is unbearably cliche and unoriginal in every sense of the word. This story has been told so many bloody times before, except it was actually done pretty well a few times. Every attempt at comedy is embarrassing and every time there was comedy I cringed so hard to the point where I couldn't even look at the screen. I have no idea why these types of movies even exist. You know, the incredibly low-budget and cliche animated movies that only exist so you can put it on to stop your child from crying for about an hour? If you want to entertain children then give them something that's actually good like a Pixar movie. Even with some of Pixar's worst, besides Cars 2, there is a lot of effort put in to it to make sure it's acceptable and not offensive to the young viewer's brain. I really cannot recommend this to anyone. Watch something that's actually worth watching. This movie is obscure, and it needs to stay that way.

Took my Garanddsons to see this movie. They told me at the cinema it had been out 3 weeks, but I'd never heard of it and probably wouldn't have bothered to go if I'd read some of the reviews . As there were only 6 of us at the showing I was doubtful . But I was pleasantly surprised and laughed til I cried , something I haven't done since Hitel Transylvania 2. There were some sad moments and probably s bit scary for little ones , but only at the point where the social worker (an alien in disguise) turned into a monster. But she was soon overcome . Brilliant on the whole !

When an animated film-- supposedly a comedy-- hasn't generated even a chuckle by 20 minutes in, you can be pretty sure that's going to be the trend the rest of the film. Even young children are likely to give up on this groaner. Edit: at this time my review has 4 out of 11 helpful. Which most likely means 4 honest viewers and 7 associated with the movie. ; )