Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
Home is a colorful, energetic DreamWorks animated comedy with a likable odd-couple dynamic between Tip and Oh, but its plot is fairly formulaic — a predictable road-trip buddy story with a telegraphed twist villain reveal. The voice performances (Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Steve Martin) are serviceable and bring energy to the characters, though they rarely transcend the material. Visually it's bright and vibrant with solid 3D animation but nothing cinematographically distinctive or groundbreaking compared to Pixar or even other DreamWorks efforts. Its premise of bumbling alien invaders offers a mild comedic twist on the alien-invasion genre but feels derivative of better fish-out-of-water stories. The ending wraps everything up neatly but predictably, with emotional beats that feel unearned given the thin character development.