Rotten
Can you inflate a gimmick-driven comedy skit into a full-fledged feature film? Up to a point.
Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
Coneheads
You may not notice them at first, but they are among us.
1993 · 1h 27m · PG
Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Steve Barron
Overview
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
Director and cast
- Steve Barron Director
- Dan Aykroyd as Beldar
- Jane Curtin as Prymatt
- Michael McKean as Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner
- Laraine Newman as Laarta
- Jason Alexander as Larry Farber
- Lisa Jane Persky as Lisa Farber
- Chris Farley as Ronnie the Mechanic
- David Spade as Eli Turnbull, INS Agent
- Sinbad Cast
- Phil Hartman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A sweet, funny anarchic pastiche that should find broad based popularity.
Leonard Klady, Variety
Rotten
Coneheads falls flat about as often as it turns funny, and displays more amiability than style.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
A respectably funny -- but small -- effort, a reunion party best watched in your living room, while you consume mass quantities of pizza with extra molten lactate extract of hooved mammals.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
This is a dismal, dreary and fairly desperate movie, in which the actors try very hard but are unable to overcome an uninspired screenplay.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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