The tone. Despite how serious the situation is there's like this childlike wonder about it. Obviously it's a comedy, but they are quite literally acting like children with over-imaginative minds (there are several points where it's explicitly trying to show them as childlike, like Rumsfield remarking that "they're daring each other to ring the doorbell," Rumsfield and Art sulking when Ray can't come out, Rumsfield eating animal crackers on his watch, the "red rover red rover" thing) -- it's reminding me of my own childhood experiences, actually, of getting each other scared and excited over nothing, of spying on neighbors and sneaking around their yards.
And I get kinda into it, like I wish I could join them. Be a child again for a few days. But it almosy feels enough to watch these grown-ass men do it.
I think that's why I've watched this film several times a year since I discovered it around 2010.
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