Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley

Tired but watchable adaptation of the popular '60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. Like Disney's other live-action remakes 101 Dalmatians and Flubber...( read more  read more... ), the emphasis is on quick-moving scenes and special effects--not character. Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. Much of the film feels like a retread borrowing heavily from other sci-fi comedies (and "fish out of water" films), including Lloyd's own Back to the Future. Lloyd and his talking space suit (voiced by Wayne Knight who brings the same personality as his Newman role on Seinfeld) don't know simple Earth customs but inexplicably know every pop culture reference in the last 10 years. Daryl Hannah and Elizabeth Hurley are along for the ride as Daniels's good-girl and bad-girl flames. TV's Martian, Ray Waltson, shows up as a secret agent alien hunter--and pours more emotion into his scenes than the rest of the movie combined. Ages 6 and up. --Doug Thomas

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PG, 80 min.

Directed by: Donald Petrie

Release Date: February 12, 1999

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DVD Release Date: July 17, 2001

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  • March 7, 2008
    This is probably what put Christopher Lloyd's career into thte shitter...too bad he's the man
  • August 26, 2007
    Standard film, mediocre, nothing further, worth one watch or two.
  • August 5, 2007
    Pretty funny.
  • June 29, 2007
    Eh, not bad.
  • April 14, 2007
    Good if you just want to watch a movie and laugh - no thinking required
  • October 29, 2009
    SEEN IT
    REVIEW COMING SOON
  • September 14, 2009
    Yeah! It may be bad to you, so my advise is: avoid!

    27/100
  • September 6, 2009
    I think I seen it but didnt care for it.
  • July 30, 2009
    about what you'd expect a Disney movie adaptation of a classic TV series to be. it's funny, sure, but it's not exactly groundbreaking comedy--standard, banal humour appropriate for kids but more appealing to older audiences. I always thought Elizabeth Hurley was particularly at...( read more)tractive in this, though. overall a mediocre, mindlessly entertaining, forgettable movie.
  • July 21, 2009
    I saw this once. In the theatre. I remember it being cute, but not much else.

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January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Everything else in the film, which was directed by Donald Petrie, is either cute or irritating. full review

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  • pavacri23
    April 21, 2008
    i saw this movie whem i was 8 yearsl old at the movie theater and at that time i loved it, but now i don't find it too good.

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