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Dire.
Derek Adams, Time Out
My Favorite Martian
The martian has landed. There goes the neighborhood.
1999 · 1h 34m · PG
Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Directed by
Donald Petrie
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My Favorite Martian
Overview
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
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12%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Walston displays a crisp wit and blithe sense of whimsy otherwise lacking in this loser.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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
Rotten
This is entertainment of the lightest, most inconsequential sort.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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.
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
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