They're not what they seem.
Freshman buddies Luke and Roger meet two new students, Lilly and Constance, in the laundry room of their dorm building at St. Johns College. It would appear that Luke and Roger have every reason to celebrate. The two young women are beautiful and blatantly interested in them, inviting them to visit them in their dorms anytime. But Luke soon discovers that they are not what they seem but are instead a species of dangerous alien life forms.
Naturally nobody believes him at first. But soon more and more bodies of young men are turning up; frozen from the inside out. Now Luke is determined to stop the alien invasion no matter how many people think he is insane, or how many flamethrowers it takes.
It's douche bags vs. alien invaders in this corny camp fest. My guess: Earth is fucked. Decoys attempts to takes the loathsome teen comedy of movies like American Pie, and meld it with the sci-fi horror of movies like Alien. The result: not great.
Aside from a somewhat misogynist plot line, what else does this film offer? The acting, special effects, and dialogue are neither hideously poor, nor particularly exciting over-all. The film definitely starts to drag on in the middle, until it begins to hurry towards its somewhat goofy finale. The characters are mostly very obnoxious and unlikeable. Meanwhile the actual aliens are kind of cool with their crazy tentacles and all, but they are infrequently seen in alien form. This movie is could be skipped without missing much. Despite this, they made a sequel.
1.5 chests full of tentacles out of 5
Rated R for sexuality and nudity.
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