Coneheads
13,436
Comedy. Sci-Fi
An alien couple with cone-shaped heads (Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin) from the planet "Remulak" is mistakingly ditched on earth. While waiting to be recalled to their mother planet, they start a family and have a little daughter. They try to adapt to earth customs by living in middle-class suburbia. Meanwhile, their daughter grows up to be a teenager (Michelle Burke) who has difficulties fitting in with her peers or accepting the fact ... [+]
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United States | Miami Herald | "It's a dreadful bore." | NEG |
United States | Variety | "A sweet, funny anarchic pastiche that should find broad based popularity. Its sly combination of the outrageous and the mundane is a surprisingly appealing screen entertainment" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "[It] displays more amiability than style" | NEU |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "This is a dismal, dreary and fairly desperate movie, in which the actors try very hard but are unable to overcome an uninspired screenplay (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" | NEG |
United States | Time | "Another Saturday Night Live skit is turned into a winning movie. And this one has a little heart." | POS |
United States | The Washington Post | "It's very funny in places, even sort of tender. But let's not get out of hand." | NEU |
United States | ReelViews | "I expected stupid humor, silly humor, or bizarre humor, but not no humor." | NEG |
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