Ben 10: Alien Swarm

Ben 10: Alien Swarm is the second live-action film based on the Ben 10 series and the live-action adaptation of Ben 10: Alien Force. It is the sequel of Ben 10: Race Against Time. It was directed by Alex Winter.

Airdate
November 25, 2009 6:00 PM

Plot
The film opens as Ben(Ryan Kelley), Gwen(Galadriel Stineman), and Kevin(Nathan Keyes) are negotiating with a group of black market dealers, who are attempting to sell them alien nanotechnology. One of them reveals herself to be Elena(Alyssa Diaz), a childhood friend of Ben and Gwen and a fellow Plumber's kid. Elena explains that she had set up the negotiations to lure Ben out into the open, and explains that her father has been abducted and that she needs their help.

Just as Ben agrees to help her, the chips suddenly spring to life, controlled by a mysterious man hiding in the rafters. Kevin immediately labels it a double cross, though Elena insists that she is not responsible. While the dealers escape, Ben transforms into Big Chill while attemping to transform into Spidermonkey and drives off the intruder. Elena escapes in the confusion, further justifying Kevin's suspicions. Ben, however, is not as easily convinced.

Arriving at their headquarters underneath the Bellwood auto repair shop, the trio, along with Grandpa Max(Barry Corbin), study the chips, learning that they are a hybrid of organic and technological components. Elena, having followed the trio, breaks in; Max orders her to leave, explaining that Elena's father, Victor Validus, was dishonorably discharged after stealing the original chips. Ben refuses to believe that Elena is like her father, and breaks ranks to help her.

While Max is away, Gwen and Kevin hack into the computer files relating to Victor Validus and discover a video of Max interrogating Victor, in which Victor insists that "the Hive", the hive mind intelligence behind the chips, is coming to take over the planet. Realizing that Max's anger towards Victor's betrayal may be clouding his judgment, Gwen and Kevin decide to aid Ben as well.

Meanwhile, Ben and Elena arrive at Victor's old lab. It has been cleared out by the Hive, but they have left Ship-It order slips behind. Other leftover files in the office indicate that Victor was studying and upgrading the chips, and a picture indicates that Elena is close to the person controlling them. A group of people under the control of the chips attack Ben and Elena, forcing them to retreat. They head to the Ship-It building to investigate further.

Gwen and Kevin, having reached the building first, are too late to stop the distribution of the chips. Instead, they are met by one of the Ship-It employees, who is similarly possessed by the chips. He directs a chip swarm to attack Gwen and Kevin, which eventually wreck Kevin's car after a lengthy chase. Ben having overheard the commotion and followed them, uses Humongousaur to defeat the swarm, completely demolishing Kevin's car in the process.

By the time they return to headquarters, the chips have been spread across the globe, and now number in the millions. The group deduces that there must be a queen controlling the Hive, and by destroying her they will likely destroy the chips as well. During their search for the queen, however, one of the chips takes over Max. Pulling together, the group notices an anomaly in the chip distribution; while world population centers are all infected, the relatively remote Barren Rock, Missouri, has the highest concentration. The town is home to the central headquarters of Ship-It. With Kevin's car out of commission, Kevin reveals that he has built a second car for Ben as a late birthday present.

Infiltrating the factory, the group discovers that the queen has infected Elena's father, whose body is being used to mass produce the chips. Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform into a new alien that he dubs "Nanomech", which was created by scanning the DNA of the chips over the course of the film. He enters Victor's brain and battles the queen while Gwen, Kevin, and Elena fight the drones. After a grueling battle, Ben destroys the queen and thus the entirety of the chips, freeing everybody from their control.

In the aftermath, Max, after personally apologizing to Victor, decides to retire and leave his position as leader to Ben, but Ben refuses to allow him to do so. The film ends as Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Elana drive home.

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 * Ben and the gang encounter Elena, seeking for their help.
 * Ben obtains a new DNA sample(Nanomech).
 * Ben transforms into Nanomech for the first time,

Debuts

 * Elena Validus
 * Victor Validus

Omnitrix alien debuts

 * Nanomech

Characters

 * Ben Tennyson
 * Gwen Tennyson
 * Kevin Levin
 * Elena Validus
 * Max Tennyson
 * Victor Validus

Villains

 * The Queen

Aliens used

 * Big Chill (selected alien was Spidermonkey)
 * Humongousaur
 * Nanomech

Trivia

 * Alien Force's opening theme wasn't played in the movie, unlike the original series' live-action movie.
 * As Humongousaur, Ben didn't talk in the movie(he just made grunting noises and roared).
 * If you look closely, you could see Brainstorm's hologram in the warehouse two times: Once when the Omnitrix first went on the fritz, and then when he tries to turn into Spidermonkey but turns into Big Chill.
 * Gwen tell's Kevin that Ben first crush was Elena but in the original series, Kai is Ben's first crush. However this maybe because the creators didn't yet had the idea of Alien Force.
 * Gwen wears her hair in a ponytail w/ her seasons 1 and 2 of her Alien Force outfit, while in the later part of the film Gwen and Kevin are wearing their season 3 outfits, so this might have taken place between seasons 2 and 3 of Alien Force.
 * Instead of called Grandpa Max Grandpa, they simply called him Max. This may have been a continuity error.
 * Kevin here isn't mutated, and the Omnitrix is still active. So this movie must of been planed before season 3 was released.