History Film / AttackTheBlock

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When the gang sees some kids playing with guns, they confiscate them and Moses orders them to, "Go home! Do your homework! Watch {{Naruto}}!"

* ChekhovsGun: The Union Jack draped over the side of the apartment building [[spoiler:ends up saving Moses when he blows up his flat]].

** Tonks, upon noticing that Pest is telling the truth about there being something nearby, refuses to go check on it when Hi-Hatz asks him to. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Hi-Hatz threatens to shoot him if he doesn't go check, which ends up with the nearby alien killing Tonks.]]]

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Hi-Hatz and Biggz

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Moses, the hero, uses a katana for most of the film.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Moses saves the block, while he and Sam come to terms. However it looks like he and Pest are gonna serve time in prison. Also Dennis and Jerome don't make it.]]

** Played straight when they repeatedly call the police [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Feds"]], not realising that England doesn't have a ''Federal'' Government.

-->-'''Pest'''

* GeorgeLucasThrowback: Many critics have compared it to [[TheEighties '80s]] monster movies and [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror-comedies]] like ''{{Gremlins}}'' and ''TheGoonies''.

* BizarreAlienBiology

* BuffySpeak: The aliens are described as 'big gorilla wolf motherfuckers'.

* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The nature documentary on moths Brewis is seen watching later helps him figure out why the aliens seem to be pursuing Moses.]]

* NothingIsScarier: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While the aliens are shown in full, they are so black that no detail can be made out except for their [[TonsOfTeeth teeth]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's about the Block being attacked. Also:

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Two of the main five teens are killed, as well as their dog]].

* BeleagueredAssistant: Played with, as when compared to Hi-Hatz's overly confident, arrogant, impulsive and hot-headed nature, Tonks is quite calm and level-headed, [[spoiler:at least for what little we see of him, as Hi-Hatz threatening him to check what was behind the car gets Tonks killed]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dennis and Jerome]].

* MoodWhiplash: We go in moments from [[spoiler:Jerome's grisly death]] to [[spoiler:a nonlethal, and even rather slapsticky, case of FriendOrFoe on ButtMonkey Brewis]].

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Brewis. His introduction? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDo3bZRC9bk Woop Woop! Dat's da sound of da police]]
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The American release by Screen Gems. After a successful test screening in 25 markets (22 markets had an excellent rating, the other three had a very good rating), they have proceeded to dump the film into just 11 markets with no advertising, no website and a trailer released just a week before opening. Even when the film added theatres, it was mostly in markets already playing the film. Also, reports on new markets aren't even known (this is usually reported weeks in advance).

* TeamPet: Subverted in that [[spoiler: Dennis' dog is killed almost immediately by an alien]].

* EaglelandOsmosis: Averted when one of the characters mentions the FBI will arrive, only to be told that ''thats America''.

* LondonTown

* CreatorCameo: Director Adam Buxton provides the voice-over on the nature documentary Brewis watches.

* PrecisionFStrike:
--->'''Probs:''' No one's gonna call you Mayhem if you're such a ''pussy!''

* PerpertualFrowner: Moses pass the whole movie without a smile. [[spoiler: Until the end.]]

* GenreMashup: Sort of an inner city horror action sci-fi comedy.

* ArrestedForHeroism: In the end, the boys are blamed for the alien-related death and destruction.

--->'''Probs:''' No one's gonna call you Mayhem if you're such a ''fucking pussy!''
** He never calls him a FUCKING pussy, though...

In South London a teenage street gang (Moses, Pest, Dennis, Jerome, Biggz) are mugging a woman (Sam) when ''BANG'' a meteor comes crashing down. But it’s no meteor, it’s an alien. A hostile, violent alien. [[TonsOfTeeth With big scary teeth]]. Soon more come crashing down and it’s up to these kids to take them down and save their block.

Directed and written by Joe Cornish and produced by EdgarWright, ''Attack the Block'' is an hour and a half of awesome hilarity.

Check out the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0gm7dHKKc here]]

* BritishAccents: The main characters speak in ''very'' thick South London accents, to the point where some of the potential US distributors considered adding subtitles so that American viewers could understand what they're saying.