Home
Director: Tim Johnson Year: 2015 I came into the screening of Home cheering for this film to work. The trailers we saw back in the fall of 2014 had my two kids (a three and a five year old) howling. Steve Martin and Jim Parsons were involved, which had my wife and I howling. During the first 15 minutes, however, I felt myself slowly sinking from enthusiasm into a wave of criticism. Establishing the rules of reality is key with any film and with a sci-fi element added in, Home had a lot to answer for. One of the biggest problems I had with the setup was the inability of the humans to mount any sort of response against the Boovs simple and incredibly effective relocation plan (putting all the humans on Australia…I think). So the Boovs are just that powerful, though they’ve been established as cowering bumblers led by a fool named Captain Smek (Martin). Conveniently (that word sums up much of my criticism of the film), Tip (Rihanna) is not sucked up and reloca...