Blu-ray

The Watch

Anton van Beek  |  Mar 1, 2013

A quartet of comedy giants comes a cropper with this dismal sci-fi spoof

The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade joins Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn for this big budget sci-fi comedy. Unfortunately, it would appear that the filmmakers spent the entire $68m budget on visual effects and forgot to pay anybody to write jokes – a solution they try (and fail) to cover up with a witless parade of swearing. Still, as you'd expect from such a costly Hollywood failure, The Watch does at least look and sound rather neat in high-definition. The Blu-ray also boasts a reasonable  batch of extras including a 12-minute Making of… and a spoof interview with an alien actor.

20th Century Fox, All-region BD, £25 Approx, On sale now
HCC VERDICT: 2/5

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