Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good concept, poorly executed.

A Major Disappointment

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A while ago I was browsing through Netflix and I found this movie. Though I was entertained, that doesn't mean that its very good. Plot - No logic is established in this movie. The plot is very contradictory and pretty much nothing makes any sense. I understand that this is a children's movie about an alien invasion, but its not too much to ask for a movie where there is a consistent cause and effect relationship between all the different events. Characters - The characters are contradictory and simplistic. Animation - The animation is simplistic, but visually colorful and kind of entertaining. Overall this movie is a bit dull. There aren't really any stakes to the nonsensical story. Its not that funny, and the stupidity is a bit of a turn off. I wouldn't recommend this movie, but it will entertain a very young child who doesn't have the ability to follow and understand complex ideas.

We have seen many movies in which kids have interact with extra terrestrials before. From E.T. to Lilo and Stitch, we have seen this been done before. "Home" is a movie that tries this formula, and fails. It wants to be a funny and smart animated movie and it turns out that the film is nether funny nor smart. It's the basic kids movie formula disguised as a DreamWorks movie and that boggles me. This was the studio that brought us great movies throughout the past decade, but sadly, this film surely ain't one of them.The film begins with a "friendly invasion" (as the movie puts it) of Earth by an alien species known as the Boov who are led by Captain Smek (Steve Martin). They have been chased from planet to planet by the Gorg, the Boov's enemy. The humans have been relocated so the Boov can move into their homes. One Boov named Oh (Jim Parsons) is trying to make friends with the Boov, but none of them seem to like him. He decides to throw a housewarming party and invites everybody he knows to his party, and I mean everyone. Everyone in the galaxy, including the Gorg. Oh is then a fugitive on the run, and later bumps into a fourteen year old girl named Gratuity Tucci who goes under the name Tip (Rihanna). She is the only one not to be abducted and relocated by the Boov and is searching for her mother who was abducted along with everyone else. So, the two of them go off on a journey to find Tip's mother and clear Oh's name.The film is based off the book "The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex and having not read the book, I don't know how much of the book was kept in the film or not, but that still doesn't excuse the film's poor story and characters. The story is about as cliché a kids movie you can get. It's not awful, but certainly not great. The characters are cut outs. We have seen all the characters before. The screw up that has a good heart, the girl who tries to be tough but has a soft side, the bully captain that has a giant ego. It's nothing new. The performances of the characters is what I'm split over the most about them. Jim Parsons' performance as Oh sometimes gets a laugh, but sometimes watching him I kept thinking of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory and wishing he would have funnier things to say. Tip is a really well written character. She is written like a proper fourteen year old girl, but Rihanna's performance is what sinks her chances of being a good character. Her performance as Tip is so bland and unemotional that I'm really surprised that she got cast in the role. The only character in my opinion that actually has something funny to say and has good delivery of the lines is Steve Martin as Smek. He steals every scene of the movie he was in and was actually pretty funny in his role, maybe because he was the only Boov that could talk normal. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention. The Boov talk like that "Can I has cheeseburger?" meme throughout the whole movie and it gets really old fast. "Home" is a film that in my opinion is in the wrong studios hand. I kept thinking that this film should have been in another studios hands like Illumination or maybe even Disney. Maybe they could have made the film much funnier and smarter than what DreamWorks had turned out. I don't know and I guess I never will. I don't think it would be bad to show "Home" to kids, but personally, I would just show them Lilo and Stitch instead.

This film has everything an animated film is supposed to have. There are moral lessons to learn. It has emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, desperation and courage. It's about friendship and family.It's colorful, exciting and humorous.I loved it, the kids loved it and I would definitely watch it again.If it comes to the story line, it might be more appealing to the older kids from the age of 7, they can relate. The colors and the cuteness of the Boovs will grab the attention of the younger kids as well.Jim Parson is perfect for Oh. It has the same innocent ignorance to feelings as Sheldon does and it is very endearing to watch him discover all these complex feelings that make us human.Unfortunately, the story doesn't leave room for a second film. It has one story to tell and no characters that could go on to feature in their own story. The film doesn't leave you wondering about "what next?". That is the only downside about this clean cut animation.

Yes there are spoilers here. There are always spoilers here.It's a shame when you see a trailer and realize that everything you're seeing is the best of the movie. Sometimes you can't see that until you actually watch the movie, and sometimes you already know that what you see is all you're going to get.In the case of HOME, you get neither.Oh is an alien who is oblivious to… Everything. He's part of the Boov race, a race of aliens that have decided to move in and take over Earth because… They're universal cowards, running from a much more advanced adversary that is desperately trying to destroy them… For some reason. Although, to be fair, considering how annoyingly stupid they are, there could be any number of reasons— I'm digressing.The good in this movie is Jim Parsons. His voice acting and comedic timing are spot on, so watching Oh prance about and speak his one-liners is actually pretty enjoyable.The bad is the part where you realize, if you are like me, that your suspension of disbelief gets shot out the window when you notice that Rihanna is not only voicing Tip, who seems likable enough, but is also promoting her music. The scene in the (flying) car when she turns on (her own) music suddenly made me realize that Rihanna was doing Tip's voice.And promoting the soundtrack.This is not a good thing for a movie that barely had my attention in the first place. It destroyed the flow of the movie, and made me cringe as I watched the scene. See, suspension of disbelief is the very CORE of all visual art. What you see on the screen is fake, it's artificial, it's made up in such a way as to sweep you along for a ride that your brain, if it was looking at it from the outside, knows that it cannot be real. But we surrender it to fall into the story, to embrace the colors and the characters, to trick our brains into buying something that is, essentially, a collaboration of illusions.Done correctly, you buy it in WEIRD SCIENCE when Gary and Wyatt create Lisa with their puny 1980s computer software, because you WANT to.Shoving Rihanna's music in your face while Rihanna is driving the car makes you realize you're watching a fake light show. And worse, if you're like me, it makes you feel like you're watching a commercial.Nobody likes commercials. Nobody.What could have been awesome is the plot of the movie itself. The setup was strangely sinister, considering the soft, plushy Boov and their less-than sinister appearance. Relocating Earth's population and taking everything over without asking was a strange kind of surprise that had me intrigued. Tip's part in bumping into the oblivious Oh worked for me, as well. I cringed slightly at some parts, like the redesign of the car with Seven-Eleven fountain-works that of course made zero sense, but I swallowed it because of the type of movie I was watching. Rihanna's music ruined the flow of the movie, but I liked where it went after that, and I even liked the final delivery at the end.What was nauseating was Rihanna's music. She's always been, how shall I say, fond of sexuality, and to hear her music played in kid's movies wears a little on me. Even "Shut Up and Drive" in WRECK-IT RALPH had me cringing a bit, especially if you pay attention to the lyrics. Rihanna is the car, and she wants you to drive her. And she wants you to shut up while you do it. So to hear her music here, especially HOW it was done, was horrible.By itself, I have no problem with Rihanna. Or her taste in music. I just don't think it fit here. Or in any kid's movie, to be honest.Like THE BOOK OF ELI, this movie is a pile of wasted potential. It could have been magnificent, grandiose even. It was a pale, Seven-Eleven soft drink, wrapped in bright colors and filled with sugar to make you laugh.Until you realize you drink it too fast, and get a headache for your trouble.