From director of Terminator Salvation and the BabySitter McG offers a tonally awkward affair. I like much of McG's work, I'm a fan but Rim is colour corrected to space and back, the cast are fine but the script doesn't fit there ages making it slightly lewd and off putting.
Maybe if Zack Stentz's dialogue had come from the camp leaders and they had led the adventure or the kids dialogue fit their ages the invasion sci-fi may have faired better as a family film.
There's CGI aplenty as the kids journey from their camp with an important key to Pasadena, California. With with a regenerating alien, an alien dog reminiscent of Predators and spaceship attacks it echoes Independence Day from the off. The best scenes borrow from better science fictions and oddly the kitchen attack is straight out of Jurassic Park.
Overall, it could have been a family alien adventure with a Goonies/Stranger Things vibe but sadly it comes off as a crude and weird invasion flick with a touch of Porky's (1981) and Poison Ivy (1985).
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