Summary: In the near future, London is facing its downfall: the people are being oppressed by an all-seeing surveillance state, a corrupt private military corporation controls the streets, and a powerful crime syndicate is preying on the vulnerable.The cop gets injured and Evan's wife stays behind to help him because that's women's work, dammit. One could argue that the mature approach isn't conducive to comedy, except Evan's conflict with his wife is never played for laughs.įinally, when Evan, Bob, and Franklin go into the Costco to shut down the alien transmitter, they're joined by Evan's wife and an inept local cop ( Will Forte). He's ashamed he can't give his wife a child, but rather than talk with her to find a solution, he's embarrassed he can't fulfill his "manly duties" and procreate. With Evan's plotline, he's trying to conceive with his wife ( Rosemarie DeWitt), but he knows he's been sterile for a year-and-a-half. Whether you agree with Bob's values or not, the aggressive father-protecting-daughter is a tired joke. If the kid is the alien the whole time, then Bob is doubly-correct in meddling in his daughter's personal life and pushing abstinence on a hormone-fueled teenager. Unless the kid is attacked after romancing Bob's daughter (and we never see this attack), then it makes no sense why the alien would waste time trying to bed a teenager instead of preparing for his species to invade our planet. The other disguised alien is the lead bad guy, who takes the form of the kid who's trying to sleep with Bob's daughter. Jamarcus does come by at the end to save the day, but it's a perfunctory rescue rather than anything to do with his character. Rather than suggest that they all go destroy the transmitter (which is what the three white guys decide to do on their own), Jamarcus says his new friends should flee into the desert to live out their days (and presumably build a new Costco and other trappings of suburban life). Jamarcus tells his new friends that there's a transmitter that will call down the alien armada. The movie never explains where Jamarcus got his skin, so unless he found it on a cadaver or a nerdy British black guy who no longer required epidermis, Jamarcus probably killed someone. We only see two disguised aliens and one of them is Jamarcus (that's right: the black guy). It an easy play at Invasion of the Body Snatchers except it doesn't go anywhere. Antonio is found with his skin missing and we discover that the aliens are already among us (fear your neighbors because they might be against you).
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