Attack the Block: A chav’s wet dream, about a group of English juvenile delinquents in London, staving off an invasion of their improverished apartment block by a horde of furry black monsters with glowing teal-colored teeth. A gang of 5 youths, led by Moses (newcower John Boyega who does well here; several of the children make their film debuts) are mugging a young woman when something crashes into a car next to them. Investigating, they are attacked by a small, dog-sized alien, which they promptly kick to death…except that only pisses off the rest of the aliens which are bigger, faster, and meaner. Soon the kids are running around their apartment building, fighting off aliens and dodging drug dealers and cops to save the day. I had to watch this with the subtitles on just to understand what some of the kids were saying. A certain shaky morality pervades the whole film (you’re rooting for people who aren’t terribly likable in and of themselves). Executive produced by Edgar Wright (who gave us “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”), this film is definitely in that same sort of genre-mashup vein. We even get Wright stalwart Nick Frost in a role as a drug dealer who lives in the block. I thought this was fun, if a tad lightweight. Not great, not crap. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”
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