Davis and Goldblum add some notes of sanity to the whole thing, which is otherwise eternally in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own jokiness. It is a colourful, distinctive movie and fast enough to get round its dud jokes, badly-mixed songs and general predictability. With a basic plot reminiscent of Pajama Party, in which Martian Tommy Kirk romanced Annette Funicello, this is less interested in the s-f comedy side of it all than in extravagantly painted nails, gaudy clothes and stoned slang of the Valley setting. In a jokey reprise of their relationship in The Fly, Goldblum, least hyperactive of the aliens, falls for the bikini-clad, long-limbed Davis, while Carrey and Wayans, en route to different perches in the knockabout comedy star pantheon, do a lot of Mork from Ork schtick and cars get crashed all over the shop. ![]() ![]() This zippy cross between My Stepmother is an Alien and Beach Blanket Bingo, adapted from a novelty song by co-star Julie Brown, proved that director Julien Temple could still get a job after the debacle of Absolute Beginners, though his arm-waving staging of Brown's material also proved that he still couldn't really handle musical numbers.Īfter the UFO landing business, a trip to the beauty shop, where Brown sings a ditty in celebration of ditziness (‘I’m a Blonde’) gets the hirsute creatures shaved into reasonable approximations of humanity, and everyone goes out on the town for, like, some totally tubed-out Californian times.
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