2/3rds Comedy, 1/3rd Horror/Drama.

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2008)

They blended the two types of genre's well.
People could argue that a "confused movie" often does badly because it can't decide what exactly it wants to be. I do believe however, Disturbia did wonderfully.
It felt the first half of the movie was a mixture of comedy and drama. I seriously was wondering "when the hell does the murderer come in?" But all was fine. My friend and I were literally "rofling" (Rolling On the Floor Laughing), or in our chairs watching the silly antics of Kale's (japanese?) friend, Ronnie, with his Spanish (or whatever the hell it was) and general cameraman goofs. Watching Kale deal with his house arrest seemed very realistic. If I was under the same situation... I, too, would go straight to my Xbox or Internet.
One of my favorite scenes, slightly mentioned in the last paragraph was Kale's tour of his spying because it has some of the best lines.
"Damn!" (When Ronnie sees the husband and... maid? making out)
"...You built the Twinkie Tower? Isn't that in like, the Stalker Handbook?"
"Not a stalker, it's a side effect of chronic boredom!"
"I love your neighborhood..." (When seeing the girl next door swimming).
Those, and more, along with the friend's hand-motions to grab the binoculars was absolutely histarical.
I felt they gave an absolute personality to each of the characters (The Villain himself was kind of stale, but he did fine).
But all good critics have to nitpick. What I didn't like was all the open-ness of Kale's neighborhood. The cheating Husband (I think, I was very confused here, I wasn't sure who was who and this particular scene went quickly), the stripping teenager and the Villain himself, do not close their blinds or curtain their windows. Yes, the villain has some paper over the window for easier disposal of "splash" damage, but still. Any good physcho-recluse man would board his windows up or something. Hell, he did install secret rooms and undergrounds to the place. This next complaint is actually kind of minor. I enjoyed the movie enough as it was, but the actual "horror" was very short-lived. I loved the garage-infiltration because that was really intense, along with the hardware-store spy-age. (Real word? You decide). And the final complaint being, the very end. Kale killed the damn guy but he's just kissing his girl soon after. He. Killed. A. Guy. You don't just walk away from that mentally unscathed like Kale and his friends. There was VERY little wrap up. Little to none.
But Ronnie's line "I'm putting this on you-tube" and their reaction was just brilliant.
I loved the movie.