I am Number Four (2011)

The teenage science fiction flick “I am Number Four” is a mixtape of the “Smallville” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV shows, and a dozen films including “Twilight.” Y’know: Super-powered conflicted teen must fight to save his high school and one true love. This normally would grind my patience, but so much of “Four” has an unintended silliness that it quickly veers into guilty fun. For a while. The teen is an alien (Alex Pettyfe) stranded on Earth, on the run from a pack of different extra-terrestrials who resemble Goth “Star Trek” fans with redneck teeth. When the leader speaks, he sounds like Dracula with a bad lisp. It’s a laugh riot. There’s a romantic interest, a nerd, a jock, and a teen girl named 6 (Teresa Palmer) who’s quite the Buffy. Pettyfe is, of course, 4. Director D.J. Caruso (“Eagle Eye”) promises a sequel and a No. 5. All told, this smells of a CW pilot more than anything cinematic. Keep your eye on the beagle, it’s one bad ass son of a … C+