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Created Aug 05, 2012 05:52PM PST • Edited Aug 05, 2012 05:52PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Another installment in the “relish the low brow” comedy category, ‘The Watch’ leverages comically sympatico actors Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, and Jonah Hill to bring it home. Not exactly a home run, but more like a series of base-hits produce a steady stream of LOL suited for those of you who are not ashamed to guffaw at raunchy jokes, well placed bad language, and gratuitous violence and sexual references. Throw in some alien action, equally non-PC treatment of dweeby WASP, foreign, female, and skanky targets, and most of us need not keep secret the fact that we liked this one.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   I really don’t need to say much about Vince, Ben, and Jonah – they produce just like you’d expect them to, except Ben Stiller seems less inspired than movies past, and Jonah seems somehow more mature than before. Some of my other picks: Wil Forte as the ultra-sarcastic Sgt. Breesman, the opener by Joe Nunez as the alcohol swilling Costco guard, and of course the foul-language spewing from the famous R. Lee Ermey.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.1

17. Sex Erotic 3.1

18. Violence Brutal 3.1

19. Rudeness Profane 3.1

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0