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When Tamesha (Lynne Anne Rodgers) stops by the new couple next door, Mary (Dani Thompson) and Joseph (Judson Vaughan), to welcome them to the neighbourhood, she didn't expect them to open in the nude - and be totally unashamed about it, too. And to defuse the totally awkward situation, Tamesha pretty much accidently invites them over to dinner that night, much to the dismay of her husband Luke (Karl Kennedy-Williams), who isn't really into meeting new people or suck up to neighbours just because they live next door. The dinner then turns pretty awkward pretty quickly even if Joseph and Mary are fully dressed this time around. But basically, they seem to have no social skills, and frankly only a poor grasp on how to behave like a human at all, which leads Luke to ask "which planet are you from?" - which was exactly the wrong quesiton, as Mary and Joseph are indeed aliens from other space studying humankind for eventual conquest, and now that they feel their hosts have found them out, they show their true colours - and they aren't pretty ...

Now this is a fun concept: Take a typical 1950s alien invasion plot à la Invasion of the Body Snatchers, trim it down to its essentials and then cook it in a broth of British comedy - and the outcome is Good Neighbours.  Now this can of course be a recipe for disaster, but this film works because it doesn't play up the comedy angle too much, and its thriller elements still hit hard when they have to, but somehow a less than dead serious approach actually makes the genre tropes more relatable, makes the characters, inculding the aliens, appear more real - also thanks to a very solid ensemble cast -,  and all of this more than makes up for the film's relative lack of spectacle owed to its rather modest budget. And the outcome is a fun genre ride, really.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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