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12	''Home'' is a 2015 computer-animated feature film from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation directed by Tim Johnson, based on the 2007 children's book ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' by Adam Rex. The film is about an endearing but inept race of aliens called the Boov who invade Earth in order to take cover from their alien enemies and move the human race to Australia to live in pre-fabricated cities while the Boov take the rest of the world. After one hapless Boov accidentally transmits the Boov's location, he goes on the run from the rest of the Boov and runs into a young Human girl called Tip who's searching for her mother. A short film ''Almost Home'' was released in front of both ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' and non-Chinese/Korean prints of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio 2}}'', detailing the events before the start of the movie proper.
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14	The film stars Creator/JimParsons, Music/{{Rihanna}}, Creator/JenniferLopez, and Creator/SteveMartin.
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16	Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was warmly received by the general public. The film became a box office success, grossing $386 million worldwide against its $135 million budget.
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18	'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/G9F6VhFY4wY Trailer 1]], [[https://youtu.be/Du4jTG7-93k Trailer 2]]
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20	In July 2016, a SequelSeries titled ''WesternAnimation/HomeAdventuresWithTipAndOh'' premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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22	Not to be confused with any of [[{{Home}} these other works]] also titled "Home".
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25	!!''Home'' provides examples of:
26	* AccidentalKidnapping:
27	** Inverted near the beginning - while seemingly every other human was captured by the Boov and relocated to Australia, Tip is unintentionally left behind in New York.
28	** [[spoiler:Captain Smek took a rock from the Gorg, which turns out to contain the next generation of his race]].
29	* AccidentalTruth: To get the other Boov to move out of his way, Captain Smek says that he's carrying a baby. [[spoiler:We later learn his shusher's rock is an incubator]].
30	* ActorAllusion: Creator/JimParsons once again plays [[Series/TheBigBangTheory an obnoxious character who doesn't understand human behaviour and annoys everyone around him.]]
31	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The book ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' has a century-long TimeSkip at the end where Tip suddenly dies of old age during the unveiling of the time capsule. The film adaptation completely throws this out in favor of a happy ending, [[SparedByTheAdaptation and Tip lives.]]
32	* AerithAndBob: Only three Boov are referred to by name: Oh, Captain Smek, and Kyle.
33	* AlienInvasion: The Boov take complete control of Earth (including rebuilding several monuments such as the Statue of Liberty to resemble Captain Smek) and relocate all the humans to Australia.
34	* AliensAreBastards: Played with in regards to the Boov. They were only looking for a place to call home, but in doing so they deprived other species of their homes.
35	* AnAlienNamedBob:
36	** Kyle has a rather normal name, [[AerithAndBob unlike most of the other Boov]].
37	** Several one-shot Boovs have names like Tony.
38	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer:
39	** After moving from Barbados to America, Tip was treated different from other kids and had trouble fitting in.
40	** Oh is so disliked among his people, his name was the way people reacted to his presence. An annoyed, exasperated "Oh..." sound.
41	* AmplifierArtifact: The Gorg super chip, which supercharges any device it's plugged into.
42	* ArgumentOfContradictions: Oh and Captain Smek have one of these over whether or not Oh would make another mistake. Smek decides it's so fun that they keep doing it for a while before he finally gets fed up with it and decides he should just erase Oh, though he doesn't get the chance.
43	* AttackDrone: [[spoiler:The smaller Gorg ships]] that attack Oh and Tip are this.
44	* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdAt0ke9w8 "Feel the Light,"]] courtesy of Music/JenniferLopez.
45	* BaffledByOwnBiology: When Oh hears catchy music by Music/{{Rihanna}} on the radio, he starts to dance uncontrollably. He's freaked out by the sensation of this movement, thinking it's the result of some kind of mind control.
46	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted when Tip gets hooked up to the Boov's database and makes some... interesting [[NightmareFace faces]].
47	* BenevolentAlienInvasion: The Boov are told by Smek that this is what they're doing, and to be fair they don't cause any harm on purpose. It should also be noted that it really is benevolent compared to most invasions in such stories.
48	* BigBad: The Gorg. [[spoiler: Or so Smek says...]]
49	* BizarreAlienBiology: The Boov have six legs each, change colors when experiencing different emotions, discharge gas from appendages that grow out of their head (which also seem to be their noses), have flexible skulls, can eat almost anything, and apparently have a third form of waste disposal. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And they have two uvulas.]]
50	* BizarreBeverageUse: When Oh upgrades Tip's mother's car, it is renamed Slushious. [[MeaningfulName True to its name, it uses slushies as fuel.]]
51	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Boov see cowardice as a desirable trait. [[spoiler:Oh's main character arc is learning to take risks, and eventually convincing the others that it can be beneficial too.]]
52	* BrickJoke:
53	** During a "pee break," Oh takes a bite out of a urinal cake, thinking it's a "blue mint." When the rest stop is blown up, a urinal crashes to the ground a short distance away, followed by a urinal cake with a bite taken out of it.
54	** Tip hit a Boov with a booby trap that covered him in glitter, [[spoiler:and he still has it on during the DancePartyEnding]].
55	** In addition to going "Number One" and "Number Two" like humans, the Boov also go "Number Three". [[spoiler:The events of the climax almost make Oh go Number Three]].
56	** One of the Brain Boov suggests PlayingPossum to ward off the Gorg. Even at the end, she's still pretending to be dead.
57	** Oh invited the entire galaxy to his party. [[spoiler:Which is why the DancePartyEnding includes species we've never seen arriving on Earth]].
58	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Oh's descriptions of the components he rejects for salvaging from the Gorg ship range from "broken" and "useless" to "likely to cause thermonuclear fusion". Tip is appropriately concerned by that last one.
59	* BringMyBrownPants: Discussed. [[spoiler: After almost being crushed by the Gorg ship during the climax]], Oh says the fear almost caused him to go Number Three.
60	* BrokenPedestal: Oh idolizes Captain Smek, even though the guy's an egomaniac and a complete moron and looks down on Oh for not being successfully socialized and believing in things like friendship and individuality. [[spoiler:Tip's influence gradually helps Oh figure that Captain Smek doesn't need to be listened to]].
61	* BuddyPicture: Most of the film focuses on Oh and Tip's journey to Paris, and then Australia, to find Tip's mom.
62	* ByWallThatIsHoley: [[spoiler:Oh appears to be crushed by the Gorg mothership, but is spared because that particular portion was hollow]].
63	* CastingGag: [[Creator/JenniferLopez J-Lo]] as Tip's mom, as a reference to [[AdaptationNameChange Oh's name]] in ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday''.
64	* CelebrityParadox: When Tip decides to put on some music, she and Oh listen to "Dancing In The Dark", a song made for the film sung by Rihanna.... who also voices Tip.
65	* CentralTheme: Finding your home. [[spoiler:Family is another]].
66	* ChekhovsGun: Tip's Christmas present to her mother.
67	** When Tip is leaving the apartment, she grabs a pair of ballet slippers. Later, at the Eiffel Tower, she goes up not just on her tiptoes, but fully ''en pointe''.
68	* ChekhovsSkill: Oh reflects light off a mirror to distract Tip early on. This comes in handy later when [[spoiler:Tip uses it to distract the Gorg driving the Mothership, using the mirror that was supposed to be her mom's Christmas present]].
69	* ColonyShip: The Boov and Gorg main ships are large enough to carry their entire respective races.
70	* ColorCodedCharacters: Tip is associated with green and orange, while Oh is associated with blue and purple. Lucy is associated with white and light grey.
71	* ColorCodedEmotions: The Boov change colors to reflect emotions. Red is anger, yellow is fear, orange is happiness, blue is sadness, and pink seems to be affection. In addition, they turn [[CannotTellALie green when they lie]][[note]]though it's possible green actually indicates ''guilt'' about lying[[/note]].
72	* ColorFailure: The Boov turn white when extremely shocked, as opposed to yellow for merely scared.
73	* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This is a comedic film about a girl and an alien going on a trip across the world, but it has several poignant moments, such as Tip breaking down in tears after her failed attempts to find her mother, and Tip sobbing when Oh [[DisneyDeath appears to have been crushed by the Gorg's ship]].
74	* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: {{Played with}}, [[spoiler:Oh has a minor HeroicBSOD when he tries to get Tip to go onto the Boov dropship to save her and fails before going himself. He does return, though. However, if he hadn't gone, the Boov mothership would have been destroyed by the Gorg, killing all the Boov and the Gorg likely would have destroyed Earth out of spite]].
75	* CoolCar: Oh makes a few modifications to Tip's car so it can fly, which apparently made it semi-sentient, as it's expression is shown to change occasionally.
76	* CowardlyYellow: The Boov change colors to reflect emotions, and naturally yellow represents fear.
77	* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler:The films ends with Tip, Oh, Lucy, the Boovs, and some of their human friends dancing with each other, along with the Gorg and several species of aliens we're unfamiliar with in the space around Earth]].
78	* DeadlyEuphemism: After his bungling threatens to bring the Gorg to Earth, the other Boov threaten Oh with being "erased".
79	* DeathGlare: Tip gives a pretty nasty glare to Oh when [[spoiler:he tries to ditch her at the gas station to flee to Antarctica]].
80	-->'''Oh''': What is the purpose of your face?
81	* DefaceOfTheMoon: [[spoiler: The Gorg ship]] plows through Saturn's rings on its way to Earth.
82	* DirtyCoward: This is practically the Boov's [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. As Oh himself puts it: "When probability for success drops below fifty percent, Boov give up." Captain Smek is even worse, often shoving aside other Boov to ensure his own safety. The conflict of the movie is because he stole something significant the last time he ran away. Part of Oh's CharacterDevelopment is moving beyond this.
83	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:It momentarily looks like Oh was crushed by the Gorg's machine, but there was an indentation in it large enough for him to fit without being crushed]].
84	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Boov convince themselves that the humans are simple and backwards in order to feel better about basically taking over the Earth. Oh even tries to convince Tip that the Boov "liberated" humankind, and later says that Captain Smek taught them that humans were little better than animals. The parallels to human colonialism and the history of maltreating natives should be obvious.
85	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The soundtrack approaches a Do It Yourself ''album''. Music/{{Rihanna}} worked with director Tim Johnson to create a concept album for the film. Three of the eight songs there are by her, and one is by co-star Music/JenniferLopez. Which in a way means that some of the songs are tied more to Tip, and that one is tied to Lucy (as they're voiced by Rihanna and Jennifer, respectively).
86	* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Captain Smek does this in a deleted opening available on the Blu-ray, breaking in on all human electronic entertainment to announce that the Boov are taking over.
87	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Tip and her mother reunite, the Gorg gets the next generation of its race back, Oh finally has real friends and the respect of his fellow Boov, and the Boov and humans make peace with each other]].
88	* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:The Boov are forgiven pretty easily at the end for having forcibly relocated all humans and taken over the planet, though they are shown to have fixed everything afterwards and no one died. The fact that Boov technology is practically magic compared to human tech might have something to do with it.]]
89	** Captain Smek in particular, who by his own stupidity and incompetence nearly drives not one, or two [[spoiler: but THREE]] entire races to extinction. [[spoiler: He steals the incubator containing the entirety of the Gorg's nee generation, thus turning the Gorg's wrath upon the Boov,]] and as they flee they accidentally get humans caught in the crossfire. Despite this potentially apocalyptic scenario, [[spoiler: Smek gets off pretty lightly, simply getting demoted from captainhood and becoming the Boov ship's DJ instead.]]
90	* EconomyCast: There are only five named, voiced characters in the whole thing. On the other hand, there are thousands of both human and alien extras.
91	* EdibleAmmunition: Oh turns boxes of "Burrito Torpedoes" from the convenience store into actual functioning explosives, though they're still no match for the Gorg ship's armor.
92	* {{Egopolis}}: Captain Smek renames Earth "Smekland".
93	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Tip isn't fond of being named "Gratuity". But also insists that only her friends call her "Tip".
94	* EverythingMakesAMushroom: A small mushroom cloud is caused by an exploding gas station.
95	* ExtremeOmnivore: The Boov are willing to eat a lot of strange things, including footballs, motor oil, and {{paintings}}. Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight" nearly ends up being lunch. While Tip and Oh are on the swinging Eiffel Tower, Tip notices a Boov about to eat the art piece and swipes it from him.
96	-->'''Boov:''' I am not paying for that.
97	* FilmOfTheBook: Loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday''.
98	* FloatingInABubble: Boov drive around on flying discs that generate bubbles when they're running to serve as the windows.
99	* FlyingCar: Oh rebuilds Tip's broken car so it can fly, under the impression that it was supposed to do that.
100	* ForebodingFleeingFlock: Oh and Tip discover that the Boov are flying alongside them, but are not attacking them. Turns out they were fleeing a Gorg drone.
101	* TheForeignSubtitle: Home: A Minha Casa (My House) (Portugal).
102	* {{Foreshadowing}}: As seen in AccidentalTruth above, when the Gorg mothership shows up at Earth, Smek pushes through the crowd of Boov, yelling "I'm carrying a baby!" [[spoiler:Turns out he's carrying the Gorg's babies inside the rock.]]
103	* FreezeFrameBonus: When first showing the modifications to Slushcious, you can see a cash register readout that shows "5318008" and "707".
104	* FromZeroToHero: The main character, Oh, went from being universally disliked by all of the other Boov, to being elected their leader. [[spoiler:And all it took was ''saving his entire race''.]]
105	* GladIThoughtOfIt: Captain Smek doesn't hesitate to take credit for the ideas of others.
106	* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Oh smiles at Tip just as he's about to be seemingly crushed by the Gorg mothership's foot.]]
107	* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: When Oh repairs Tip's car, he accidentally wires the brakes and gas backwards.
108	* HandsLookingWrong: Tip grabs Oh's wrist to show him his hand after he insists that Boov don't turn green when they lie.
109	* HartmanHips: Lucy and Tip both have hips that are as wide as their shoulders.
110	* HeelRealization:
111	** Oh has a major revelation that his own people themselves are entirely the cause of all their persecution problems.
112	** After Oh [[spoiler:saves the Boov using a Gorg Superchip, Kyle realizes that he should have accepted Oh as his friend and sides with him against Smek]].
113	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Attempted by Oh, to save the Gorg pod when he was about to be crushed by the mothership. He throws the pod to Tip since he wouldn't be able to escape it]].
114	* HostileTerraforming: Downplayed. The earth is restructured, but the Boov's technology reset it easily.
115	* HowDareYouDieOnMe: A major turning point in Tip and Oh's uneasy alliance comes when Oh dives underwater for a couple of hours and she kicks him and rants about him letting her think he'd died.
116	* ImagineSpot: Oh has a brief one when he considers hiding in Antarctica. It's about five seconds of him hugging penguins.
117	* InvadingRefugees: The Boov take over Earth because the Gorg destroyed their homeworld.
118	* InventionalWisdom: Oh complains about the wisdom of an e-mail system in which "send" and "send all" are two giant buttons on the same screen, reflecting a common complaint about Reply and Reply All buttons in real-life email applications. Less remarked upon is why anyone except maybe Smek would need to send a message to every sentient being in the galaxy at once.
119	* IrrevocableMessage: Oh's message ''can'' be retracted (even bypassing the light-speed limit that prevents it from reaching the Gorg immediately), but only by someone who has his password.
120	* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Oh manages to accidentally transmit his invitation to the entire galaxy by accidentally hitting the "Send All" button. Despite requiring time to reach it's destination, the message can be instantly canceled at any point of transmission before it does.
121	* IWillFindYou: Tip's main goal throughout the movie is to rescue her kidnapped mother. [[spoiler:Turns out it's also Gorg's, who's looking for the next generation of his species]].
122	* KindheartedCatLover:
123	** Tip is very close to her pet cat, Pig.
124	** Oh grows quite fond of Pig and the feeling is mutual.
125	* TheKindnapper: While the Boov do forcibly relocate the humans, they do so without harming them. They offer them ice cream during the trip to their new settlement (which already has plenty of houses for them), and even provide them with an "Ask a Boov" station for inquiries. Though this is mostly due to Captain Smek telling the Boov that humans are a backward species that need their "help."
126	* KnightOfCerebus: Things get ''much'' more serious when The Gorg enters the picture[[spoiler:,even if he himself is not evil at all]].
127	* LackOfEmpathy: The Boov, embracing a DirtyCoward mentality for their whole society, have absolutely no regard for any of the natives they forcibly relocate as they conquer Earth. When Oh finally gets that perspective and the courage to stand up to Captain Smek about what they are doing to humanity, ''everything'' changes for them.
128	* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: The Gorg]] is the only adult member of his species left. [[spoiler:The rock Captain Smek stole from him contained the entire next generation of Gorg; he was trying to find it so he wouldn't be the last Gorg.]]
129	* LiteralMinded: The Boov. In just one example, Oh finds a cookbook as he sets up his housewarming party. He cooks it.
130	* LivingMoodRing: The Boov change colors to reflect emotions. Red is anger, yellow is fear, orange is happiness, blue is sadness, and pink seems to be affection. In addition, [[BadLiar Oh has a bad habit of turning green (possibly with guilt) when he lies]].
131	* LockAndLoadMontage: Tip laying out her make-up kit before disguising Oh is treated as one. Leading to...
132	* MakeoverMontage: ...[[SubvertedTrope or not]], as it turns out; Oh thinks she's done as soon as she's given him a beauty mark, and [[PaperThinDisguise is amazed at how unrecognizable he's become]], and she just rolls with it.
133	* MeaningfulEcho: When Tip and Oh first meet, she locks him in a freezer and tells him "No, you cannot come into the out!" when he asks. [[spoiler:In the climax, Oh locks Tip and Lucy in her car (to protect them from being crushed by the Gorg mothership) and tells her "Tip can't come into the out now."]]
134	* MirroringFactions: As explained in the end [[spoiler:by Oh, the Gorg was simply acting irrationally violent and making poor decisions out of sadness and anger at the Gorg children being essentially kidnapped, which is different from the Boov's BlueAndOrangeMorality but a lot closer to how a human would react]].
135	* MobileSuitHuman: The Gorg is revealed to [[spoiler: be a small starfish-like creature wearing a large suit]].
136	* MonumentalDamage: Played with. We see several Earth monuments, but many aren't really damaged, just floating in air. [[spoiler:The ones with faces have been modified to look like Captain Smek. In the end, the Boov fix it.]]
137	* MoodWhiplash: The film's soundtrack album has a big case of this. The fourth track, Rihanna's "As Real As You and Me" tells us that "''There could be a freak accident / There could be a fatal disease / I know we hate to think about it / But this as real as you and me...''" This is immediately followed by Charli [=XCX=]'s "Red Balloon" - "''Ah-ooh! If you got troubles, let 'em go / Let 'em soar so high, high into the sky just like a red balloon / Ah-ooh! Don't let your worries get to you / Let 'em float on by, high into the sky just like a red balloon...''" The musical styles of the two songs are just as different as the lyrics.
138	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Oh, when he realizes how wrong his race was to invade the Earth, and then later that Gorg was only after the Boov because they stole his species' entire next generation]].
139	* MythologyGag: In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'', the Boov Tip befriends is named J-Lo. Here, Tip's mother is played by the real [[Creator/JenniferLopez J-Lo]].
140	* NiceGuy:
141	** Oh. While he can be annoying, he is well-meaning and friendly.
142	** Tip is quite friendly and kind-hearted.
143	** Lucy Tucci. Every appearance and mention of her shows that she is a kind, thoughtful person and a great mom.
144	* NobleBigot: One of the Boov's two [[PlanetofHats Hats]] (The other being [[DirtyCoward Dirty Cowards]]). Part of the reason the Boov displace Humanity with minimal preamble is because Smek told them that Humans are backwards primitives. Part of Oh's [[CharacterDevelopment Character Development]] is coming to terms with the fact that Humans are more complex than he thought.
145	* NoEndorHolocaust: The start of the movie shows the (almost) entire human race being relocated to Australia, and the Boov making significant changes to ''everything'' in an attempt to figure out what to do with their new home, but the ending implies they were easily able to just put everything back the way it was.
146	* NoodleIncident:
147	** Oh claims the Boov have three methods of excreting waste. "Number 1" and "number 2" seem to be analogous to humans, but "Number 3", which they only have to do once a year, is evidently quite uhh...spectacular.
148	** Also, ''Almost Home'' has a mention of "Carnivorous unicorns, remember those?"
149	* NoOntologicalInertia: Oh's invite will take roughly 40 hours to reach the Gorg, yet cancelling the invite immediately stops the signal even though it was mere seconds from reaching them.
150	* ObliviouslyEvil: Smek tells his people that humans are mere primitive animals, and the Boov honestly cannot understand why humans would have any complaints about being abducted from their homes and relocated to concentrated housing developments in Australia without so much as a by-your-leave.
151	* OverlyLongGag: The back and forth between Oh and Captain Smek with Oh pleading that he won't screw up again and Smek arguing there's a chance that he might.
152	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:The Gorg [[SuperPersistentPredator tailing the Boov across the universe]] and [[EarthShatteringKaboom laying waste]] to everything in their path was all a desperate quest to rescue his stolen children]].
153	* PaperThinDisguise: A single beauty mark is sufficient to make Oh look like "a completely different Boov", to the point that its subsequent removal is treated as a DramaticUnmask that results in one of the on-looking Boov fainting in shock. Still doesn't fool their security's facial-recognition software, though.
154	* ParasolParachute: When Tip, Oh, and several other Boov crash through a cluster of open umbrellas, some Boov grab umbrellas to float themselves to the ground.
155	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The Boov (by order of Captain Smek) all use "Password" as their password. This causes a problem when Oh [[spoiler:uses a long rambling sentence created with a mentality they cannot understand]].
156	* PhotoMontage: The credit sequence includes an epilogue montage of Oh and Tip and their friends and family. In one of the photos, Oh and Tip are reading a book with an illegible title but the distinctive cover design of ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday''. Another photo shows Tip doing a book report for it—with the book's title clearly visible at the top—on her computer.
157	* PhraseCatcher: Where Oh's name comes from: he is so disliked that if someone recognizes him they just groan "Oh" in annoyance.
158	* PricelessPaperweight: Captain Smek silences other Boov by hitting them on the head with the rock on the end of his "shusher wand". We later discover that the "rock" [[spoiler:contains the entire next generation of Gorg, which is the true reason the Gorg has been chasing the Boov]].
159	* PlayingPossum: One of the Brain Boov suggests pretending they are dead so the Gorg will leave them alone. She continues pretending even at the end of the film.
160	* ThePollyanna: The Boov are described as an "overly optimistic, yet inept, alien race".
161	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tip gives one to Oh for what his species have done to Earth, after he tried to get her to come with him for safety. Tip also tells him his people are not even his family.
162	* RunningGag: Early on, the Boov are shown throwing away anything they don't understand the purpose of and leaving them in floating spherical piles. We continue to see more of these over the course of the film, including accordions, umbrellas, statues, and picnic tables.
163	* RushmoreRefacement: The Boov manage to reface pretty much every monument with a face, on top of levitating them all. [[spoiler:All the monuments are put back and restored once the Boov make peace with the humans]].
164	* ShoutOut:
165	** When the Slushious blasts away from the gas station, it leaves a license plate spinning on its corner a la ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
166	** The five-note vocalized intro to Feel The Light is reminiscent of the five-tone musical phrase used by the UFO in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
167	* SinisterGeometry: The Gorg mothership and its drones resemble a bunch of giant, spiky pyramids stuck together, while the Boov colony ship is basically a giant sphere.
168	* {{Slapstick}}: Typically Oh is on the receiving end of this.
169	* SoundtrackDissonance: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlNb3AvWRY "Red Balloon"]] by Music/CharliXCX plays during the Boov invasion of Earth, which sees all of humanity abducted and displaced from their homes while the aliens overrun the cities. Then again, from the ''Boov'' perspective it's quite fitting since it's quite a peppy and fun song (and the sequence does involve a lot of things floating up like balloons).
170	* SpaceBrasilia: Happy Humans Town looks like a repetitive suburb.
171	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The two prominent alien species are called '''The''' Boov and '''The''' Gorg. [[spoiler:It's literal in the latter's case, as there is only one of them]].
172	* SquashedFlat: Pig gets flattened against a car window.
173	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After the Brain Boov thinks up ideas as creating an AlternateUniverse where the Gorg don't exist and PlayingPossum, one of them suggests accessing Oh's e-mail account and deleting the message. Unfortunately, it wasn't a case of ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish.
174	* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The Boov (especially Oh) regularly mix up tenses, verbs, nouns, and English grammar in general with phrases like "Can I come in to the out now?" and "It should to hover much better now."
175	* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Oh spends several hours underwater at one point. Presumably, so can the other Boov. In the [[Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday book]], the Boov had been an aquatic race until recently in their history, hence the diving skills.
176	* ToiletHumor:
177	** Oh uses a toilet scrubber -- with water from the same toilet-- as a tongue scrubber.
178	** Oh drinks "a bowl of lemonade" in a gas station's bathroom.
179	* [[invoked]]UglyCute: When Smek shows the Boov footage of a human baby, they recoil [[HumansAreUgly in disgust and horror]]... except for Oh, who [[InUniverse remarks]] "Awww, they're so ugly they're cute!"
180	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:During an attempted peace conference with the Gorg, Captain Smek ran and grabbed a small rock on the way out, placing it on his "shusher wand." It is later revealed that the rock actually contains the next generation of Gorg, which is the true reason the Gorg has been chasing the Boov]].
181	* VichyEarth: Boov ocuppy Earth at the start of the movie.
182	* VisualPun: At the party during the end of the movie, Kyle has a cocktail glass with a screwdriver in it.
183	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Smek makes his last appearance in the movie when he gets run over by the Boov who congratulate Oh for being made the captain. He briefly [[BackForTheFinale returns at the end of the movie]] when he parties with other Boov on the moon.
184	* WorthlessYellowRocks: The Boov gather all the articles they consider useless in spherical piles floating in the sky. Among the items given this treatment are cars, bicycles, trashcans, toilets and in Paris, statues and monuments.
185	* WrongGenreSavvy: Captain Smek convinces the Boov that humanity will be perfectly fine with being relocated so that the Boov can take their homes. As Oh later sees, this is very much ''not'' the case. As the Boov are rushing back to their ship, the humans are seen chasing them out.

Context WesternAnimation / Home2015