this wasn not all that great . not terrible or hateful or anything and just forgettable . it have a sort of and um and hesitant and diluted air and like it never properly know whether it want to go for laugh or for sweetness or for satire . so we be leave with weak mix of the three . the actor seem kinda lost . also and the idea be really tire and recycle and almost zombified themselves . how many more time do we have to be tell the 50 in the state be infect with a banal sense of conformity . and that this be perpetuate by aggressive consumerism . and that emotional repression in men be a baaaaad thing . old hat . it big crime in my eye though be just how detach from reality it be . i know it be a comedy and all and but especially in a full movie where you must keep the interest of an audience for a prolonged period you still need some sort of emotional anchor and some relatable guide through the story and to make it engage . for the hero kid to watch an old woman and two fellow school pupil and ultimately his father die painfully at the hand of zombie or whatever and for him to greet it all with a cheery smile and a shrug of the shoulder and then i just struggle to deal with that in any sort of positive way . the mum be the same . if you make your two main character so inhuman on that level and then you risk lose me and that what happen . big positive i can offer be that i love the look of that sort of apple pie suburbia and this capture it well enough and it be a handsome film and especially some of those wide angled shot of the street and inside the robinson house . also and the opening newsreel be cute and in a be do before but still funny sort of way . and i think billy connolly be ok and that come from someone who isn not a big fan of billy connolly represent movie star . i just have this fear he be go to be ham it up and try to steal every scene and but he play it pretty low key for him and probably come out the most sympathetic character in the whole film . all in all and not great though .