Aliens in the Attic (2009) Poster

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MPAA Rated PG for action violence, some suggestive humor and language
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Sex & Nudity

  • A song playing in Ricky's car has lyrics about being the "love doctor" and "let me make you feel better."
  • A photo of a teenage girl's boyfriend shirtless on her mobile device.
  • Ricky playfully tells Bethany to "give poppa some sugar" (kiss him).
  • Ricky purposefully disables his car so that Bethany's dad will invite him to stay at the vacation house overnight (albeit in the den, and Stuart tells his daughter, "No fooling around").
  • Ricky removes his shirt outside, leaving Bethany breathless with anticipation, and he gets her to put suntan lotion on his bare back. From a distance, Jake encourages Tom to shoot Ricky with a paint gun. But as they see the couple about to kiss and Jake comments on them getting to second base (which doesn't occur),
  • Ricky makes disparaging remarks about Tom and his relatives, and then tells Bethany that he should have stayed home and "hooked up" with another girl who's "smoking hot."
  • 2 aliens flirt.
  • The aliens briefly watching footage from "The Mask of Zorro" and see the characters played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas spar with swords before suddenly passionately kissing.
  • A girl is shown in a bikini in 3 scenes.

Violence & Gore

  • An alien fires an electronic, mind control dart into the back of Ricky's neck, turning him into a remote-controlled zombie robot. Controlled by the aliens, he then comes after Tom and Jake and grabs them. They then elbow him and flee as the alien fires at them. Ricky then comes crashing through some lattice at them but ends up flipping over a railing and off the roof (he's later seen hanging upside down alongside the house, unhurt).
  • Tom throws some roof furniture that hits three aliens and he and Jake beg the younger kids to let them back into the attic. They do and then all scramble back down the attic access stairs, with darts hitting both older boys, but that has no effect on them. They all then struggle to push that access closed and back into the ceiling, with some of Razor's nails being clipped off in the process.
  • The aliens briefly watching footage from "The Mask of Zorro" and see the characters played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas spar with swords before suddenly passionately kissing.
  • The twins use the mind control remote to move Ricky about, including having him hit a swing hard and then flip to the ground, slam into his own car hard enough to dent the door, and then repeatedly slap himself in the face (played for laughs).
  • Jake throws fireworks into the house's vent shafts to drive the aliens away, and the latter flee from the various small explosions.
  • An alien nearly shoots Sheriff Armstrong with a mind control dart, but Jake throws a rake that distracts the alien, causing his shot to miss the mark and bounce off the sheriff's badge instead.
  • Aliens shoot Jake with a potato gun and we next see them dragging and somewhat bouncing him down some steps while bound and gagged.
  • Controlled by the remote control device, Ricky shoves Tom back, tries to hit the twins with something, and then battles Nana who's also remote controlled. She blocks his punches and kicks with her cane, followed by flipping him with that, etc. The battle then continues, with all sorts of "floating" martial arts moves that cause property damage (fists through walls, smashed furniture, etc.) until Nana kicks and hits Ricky quite hard, followed by kicking him down a long hallway and through a door.
  • The kids mix Mentos with Coke in 2-liter bottles and throw those at the aliens, distracting them. Tom then shoots Skip back into a device, unaware that it will turn the latter into a towering version of him.
  • As Tom prepares to shoot Skip who's now enormous, Tazer goes through the same process and also ends up huge. Tom manages to shoot a mind control dart into Skip, resulting in him battling Tazer, including some punching, elbowing, kicking and a knee to Tazer's crotch.
  • A bird grabs and flies off with one alien.
  • Controlled by the remote control device, Ricky lands crotch-first on a hand railing.
  • Comical, non-intense, action between small aliens and children occurs throughout the film.
  • Two huge aliens fight with punches and kicks and one knees the other in the groin.
  • An elderly woman and a young man fight using kicks and punches: the woman uses a cane and the young man uses two umbrellas, and he ends up being thrown through a basement door and has a cut on his nose.
  • A teenage boy is shot repeatedly by an alien with a paint ball gun; we later see the boy with splatters of paint on his face and clothing and he is bound and gagged while being dragged down a flight of stairs (his head hits the stairs as they go).
  • A teen boy shoots a young man in the shoulder and crotch several times with a paint ball gun (the young man groans and whimpers and we see red splotches on his pants and arm).
  • Controlled by the remote control device, Nana knocks a door down, tosses Tom aside, and bites onto Jake's arm, leaving her dentures there he pulls his arm away. She then ends up slipping on a skateboard and lands on the floor.
  • An alien has a cut on his arm (we see a red mark).
  • A young man who's being controlled by an alien device grabs two teen boys and tells them that they will face instantaneous death.
  • An alien eats a live rat (we hear a crunch and see its tail moving in the aliens lips), and the alien then burps loudly.

Profanity

  • The film contains two terms that sometimes have more objectionable meanings ("hook up" and "tool"), while there's also at least 1 buggers, 1 crap, 1 incomplete S.O.B., 4 uses of "Oh my God" and 1 use of "Swear to God."
  • 1 scatological term, 1 mild anatomical term, an alien says, "You walking piece of" and uses an alien term that is not translated, 1 mild obscenity, 5 religious exclamations, 7 exclamations (heck, crud, freaking, shut up.)
  • Name-calling (boy toy, idiot, jerk, freak, geek, dumb, wuss, stupid, Earth maggots, space scum.)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man drinks beer in a couple of scenes.
  • A man talks about getting more beer.
  • Wine and beer are shown on a dinner table.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Violence & Gore

  • One alien is shocked backwards (slapstick style).
  • An alien bangs the heads of two of his subordinates together.
  • Tom and Jake fall from the side of the house and land hard on the ground (but are okay).
  • A teenage girl slaps his boyfriend when she thinks he's being disrespectful.
  • An alien shoots an electronic mind control dart into the back of an eldery woman's neck.
  • The aliens fire a potato gun at the kids while fleeing.
  • Skip throws Sparks into a hole dug in the basement floor.
  • One of the twins ends up falling into a hole (but is okay).
  • Razor and Bethany battle, sharp fingernails vs. tennis racket.

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