Movie Review: What Planet are you From?

Story: The problem: On an advanced planet in a galaxy far, far away, the all-male cloned inhabitants have come up with a plan to conquer the universe (or maybe just Earth). Solution: Send an emissary to Earth to meet, impregnate and begin the repopulation of their planet or something goofy like that. It really doesn't matter. Written by Gary Shandling and Michael Leeson and directed by Mike Nichols I knew I would laugh, but I wanted more laughs than I got. There were lots of penis jokes (I did laugh at them all) and lots of Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus jokes (I laughed at them too), but I expected more. I laughed harder at Galaxy Quest and that film did not have this pedigree. Oh well!

Acting: If I said Gary Shandling can act I would be lying. He was doing Gary Shandling as Larry Saunders as an alien and actually seemed quite comfortable as an alien. Annette Bening has a good comic flair and as in American Beauty she plays another real estate agent. Greg Kinear is enjoyably sleazy and Linda Fiorentino is underutilized as usual. John Goodman was the same as usual, but fun. He always looks like he is enjoying himself. Ben Kingsley seemed quite at home as leader of the alien planet. Sort of Ghandi in a suit.

Pets: None (a BIG omission)

Visual Art: Some southwest crap

Soundtrack: Don't remember

Sappy Factor: 6

Quirky Meter: 1

Oscar Worthy: Certainly not

Length: 104 minutes

LOBO HOWLS: a mediocre 5