wes-connors
In sunny Southern California, skinny "valley girl" Geena Davis (as Valerie Gail) frets over two weeks with no sex from handsome doctor boyfriend Charles Rocket (as Ted Gallagher). When she finds out he's dating blonde nurses, Ms. Davis has a tantrum. Later, working on her tan, Davis is oblivious when an alien spaceship splash-lands in her pool. Diving in to investigate, she encounters the ship's inhabitants: Blue-furred Jeff Goldblum (as Mac), Red-furred Jim Carrey (as Wiploc) and Yellow-furred Damon Wayans (as Zeebo). Davis invites the aliens to stay over while aging surfer dude Michael McKean (as Woody) drains the pool so the ship can be repaired. Posing as an MTV band from Finland, the house-guests soak up local color by watching television...Because they are covered in fur, Davis takes the aliens to the "Curl Up & Dye" beauty shop where she works as a manicurist. There, sexy salon co-worker Julie Brown (as Candy Pink) gives the men a make-over. They look normal, but still act funny. Davis is attracted to Mr. Goldblum, but doesn't want aliens to think "Earth Girls Are Easy." Ms. Brown thinks Mr. Carrey's long tongue looks fun and Mr. Wayans' dancing stunt double gets a work-out. This hilarious film is one of the best-written comedies about American pop culture - with an emphasis on the 1980s. Brown with co-writers Charlie Coffey and Terrence E. McNally, director Julien Temple and star Davis are all award-worthy. The sound, cinematography (by Oliver Stapleton) and sets are totally awesome.********* Earth Girls Are Easy (9/9/88) Julien Temple ~ Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey
Wizard-8
If you didn't live through the 1980s and are wondering what a lot of the excesses of that particular decade were like, a good artifact from that era that would give you that answer would be "Earth Girls Are Easy". The movie is jam-packed with 80s attributes - music, lingo, fashions, and a lot more. True, this material does date the movie considerably, but if you are nostalgic for the era you will welcome this material. It also helps that the movie is extremely sunny and upbeat, with likable performances from the cast.The movie is undeniably fun at times, but there is a big flaw that should have been worked on before filming started. The problem is that there is very little story here. The events of the movie unfold very slowly when the pace should have been more snappy and the story more substantial. So if you decide to watch this movie, wait until you are in an especially patient mood.
Dave from Ottawa
There is a lot here to like. The songs are well written and genuinely funny, the comic pacing is nicely zippy and the situation could hardly have more camp appeal, combining space aliens, makeovers and Valley culture into a goofy, fun mix. The look of the picture is a major plus, with everything having a sparkly quality to it, and the slightly goofy 50s appearance of the spaceship is a definite plus. Geena and Jeff are an attractive, easy to like couple, and carry off the fairly absurd premise (a whirlwind interspecies romance) disarmingly. One major weakness with the picture is an inability to find screen business for Jim Carrey, who has a few fine moments, but his unique gifts for mimicry and physical comedy are largely wasted.
david-sarkies
This is one of Jim Carrey's earlier movies, and it also stars Damon Wayans, which why I hired it. The thing is, if you are expecting either a smart talking negro or a typical Jim Carrey character, then you will be a little disappointed, because the actors do not play the type of characters we have come to expect of them. Instead they are sex craved aliens cruising the galaxy and happened to crash on earth after seeing on Geena Davis.I personally thought that there could be a little more to this movie than there was. It was cute watching these aliens exploring Califorina culture and simply having fun. The reviewers called it a fun movie, and I agree in a way, but unfortunately it was missing something. I guess I was expecting more of a typical Jim Carrey or Damon Wayans movie, which is wasn't, but rather something completely different. Geena Davis' character really didn't seem to know what she wanted, but then that was the whole purpose of the movie. In the end though, it is interesting, but little more than that.
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