News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.
Walston displays a crisp wit and blithe sense of whimsy otherwise lacking in this loser.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
fresh:
What we have here is a highly agreeable cast goofing around within the familiar parameters of the alien-lost-on-Earth story, to absolutely no purpose except killing time.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This is entertainment of the lightest, most inconsequential sort.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Travel from Mars to Earth is an amazing feat, but not much more remarkable than reviving a sitcom that had been dead for a third of a century.