No Tribble at All

Save Yourselves! (2020) is a pretty timely movie. The concept it simple: a couple goes to the woods for a digital detox, and doesn't realize that the aliens have conquered the earth while they were away.

It stars Sunita Mari and John Paul Reynolds as a typical high-tech couple. They are always exhausted from their (undefined) high-tech jobs, so they spend all their time staring at their phones. One night they meet up with their much more cool friend, who gave up his job in venture capital to 3D print surf boards in Nicaragua. He offers to let them borrow his upstate cabin to get away from it all. 

They promise they will turn off their phones when they get there. And as they drive up, we notice, but they don't, that odd things are falling from the sky. Then, while Reynolds is trying to figure out man things like chopping wood, Mari sneaks a glance at her phone. She has a lot of messages - mostly panicked texts from her mother about something on the news. But she's always upset about something in the news. When Reynolds comes back in, she hides her phone and they go back to having relationship discussions. 

But in the morning, they discover that all the liquor is gone, and the sourdough starter too. Also, the big round fuzzy pillow they have been calling a pouffe as moved. Mari breaks down and admits that she checked her phone, and when they both do, they find out that alien invaders, who live off ethanol and look like big tribbles, have conquered the earth.

So they fight some of the aliens, and try to escape, but the pouffes have drunk all the cars gas for the ethanol. The cabin has a diesel car, so they do get away - only to spot another car being attacked by pouffes. They can't save anyone in the car, except a baby. They don't want to save it, but they do. And then another survivor steals their car.

Carless and stuck with a baby, they wander into the woods. When they try to change the baby, the smell sends them into sick hallucinations for a while. Yet somehow they survive, but not save themselves. 

This was somewhat funny, but suffered from a common problem - unlikable leads. Reynolds and Mari play completely un-self-aware characters, who really can barely relate to each other. Mari wants to do relationship quizzes she downloaded from online. Reynolds wants to do ... something ... Maybe start a community garden. They aren't evil or spectacularly selfish, but they aren't much fun to be around. And it isn't very funny, just kind of real. The space aliens are more fun, for sure.