Movie of the Week: Home

[jacey]

A Dreamworks animated adaptation of Adam Rex's children's book, The True Meaning of Smekday featuring the voice of Jim Parsons (Sheldon from Big Bang Theory) as Oh, a somewhet incompetent but endearing alien. Given that the alien Boov have taken over Earth and moved all the humans to encampments in Australia Oh is starting several points down in the popularity poll when he meets a surviving free human girl, Tip (voiced by Rihanna), who's mother has been kidnapped along with all the other humans.

Much of the humour comes from the unlikely pairing of human and alien. As alien invasion movies go it's pretty benign, but pleasant entertainment. There are some sweet moments.