Ben 10 Alien Swarm

This is definitely the better of the live-action movies, but it's still a live-action Ben 10 movie - so it's not that good lol.

The acting is still fairly flat (although the character personalities are sorta accurate to their show counterparts), the effects are still pretty bad (as are the alien designs), and the exposition is still forced.

The plot is fine, and the pacing isn't bad (much better than the first live-action movie, at least) - but it does contradict a lot of the established lore (i can't recall a single time plumbers gave orders - much less Max doing so to his grandson). Also weird how Ben & Gwen refer to Max by name rather than as "grandpa" like he does in the series.

The microchips are cool too (but I'm biased since I really like nanotech and things adjacent to it lol), and I am glad they were brought back in Ultimate Alien (that epsiode was actually how I found out about them lol). It's also pretty convenient that the Omnitrix doesn't really work for 90% of the movie lol (almost like the VFX are expensive or something, right?)

The conclusion was decent, but it does do some setup that never had any payoff.

Overall, it's not bad - but not one that I'd watch again.