![]() ![]() ![]() Her visitors, Mac (Jeff Goldblum), Wiploc (Jim Carrey) and Zeebo (Damon Wayans), are three hairy, brightly colored, bipedal aliens. Frustrated with their lack of intimacy, Valerie finds solace when three aliens crash land in her pool. The plot surrounds a manicurist named Valerie (Geena Davis) who has been having a troubled romance with her husband. The answer was already revealed back in 1988 in the film, Earth Girls Are Easy, which anyone can stream for free right now on YouTube. While Goldblum’s behavior on the red carpet made onlookers aware of the actor’s potential extraterrestrial origins, I hardly saw a reason to question it. He's just this very chic alien who is doing, like, a so-so job of fitting in on our planet and everyone's okay with it. “Earth Girls Are Easy” is silly and predictable and as permanent as a feather in the wind, but I had fun watching it.I have this working theory that Jeff Goldblum isn't actually human. Davis is, at this point in her career, manifestly a happy young woman, and her joy of performance spills over into her character and inspires the actors around her, so that although the movie sometimes gets giggly, it never gets distracted or loses its energy level. The movie’s sense of fun is infectious and saves the material when it starts to sag. Preparing for “Earth Girls,” he seems to have studied “ Little Shop of Horrors” and the works of John Waters, and he gives us a science-fiction musical where the art direction is so flamboyant it almost should be billed along with the actors. His previous film was the strange, difficult “Absolute Beginners,” in which he showed a visual style that was willing to go to any length to make a point. The movie was directed by Julien Temple, who has had a considerable underground reputation ever since his cult Sex Pistols movie, “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle,” a decade a ago. This is fairly familiar subject matter in the movies (as in “ Starman” and “ My Stepmother Is an Alien”), but “Earth Girls” peps it up by setting the movie in a Day-Glo, instantly disposable, Southern California culture where even aliens with their fur would not attract a whole lot of attention. The aliens emerge as three fairly good-looking guys (led by Jeff Goldblum), and after they all go out for a night on the town, romance blossoms between the Davis and Goldblum characters.Ī lot of the humor in “Earth Girls Are Easy” depends on the ways the aliens misunderstand the everyday details of Earth culture. ![]() They are stranded on Earth when their ship sinks in Davis’ pool, and so to make them blend, in she offers them a complete head-to-toe beauty makeover. The aliens are nice guys, but hungry and clumsy and covered with fur. But the next day her love life begins to look up, when three aliens crash-land their spaceship in her swimming pool. This does not work, since it turns out her boyfriend already has another woman on the hook. The boss at her beauty salon ( Julie Brown) suggests a complete change of image and makes her over into a platinum blond. Her boyfriend ( Charles Rocket) doesn’t seem to be interested any longer. The manicurist is played by Geena Davis, who won the supporting actress Oscar this spring for “ The Accidental Tourist.” Although two movies could not possibly be more different, the characters played by Davis are somewhat similar: optimistic, openhearted, trusting women who can’t help themselves when they see a guy in trouble.Īs the movie opens, Valerie, the Davis character, is a manicurist in trouble. ![]()
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