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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Live / Artisan
Salesrank: 62423
Released: March 15, 1999 |
| Our Price: $4.65 |
| Used Price: $2.99 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This late-'80s comedy-musical from video director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners) has an infectiously buoyant if dumb charm and plays like a cross between Little Shop of Horrors and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. If you loved either of those movies, you'll have a fondness for this one, otherwise you'll be irritated beyond belief. Geena Davis stars as a San Fernando Valley manicurist who finds herself in charge of three aliens after they crash-land their spaceship in her pool. With said transport broken down, Davis offers them head-to-toe makeovers (it's the least she can do), turns the fuzzy aliens into a trio of attractive guys, and lets them loose on the dating scene. She promptly falls in love with the leader (Davis's then-husband Jeff Goldblum); of course, it helps that her slimy fiancé (Charles Rocket) is cheating on her left and right. Aside from its sunny California charm, the only other thing this film has to offer is a bouncy musical score, in particular two show-stopping numbers performed by costar (and the film's cowriter) Julie Brown: "Brand New Girl," in which Davis gets the requisite makeover ("If you want to be a femme fatale / You can't rest on your L'Oreals!"), and the entirely irrelevant but absolutely hilarious cult hit "'Cause I'm a Blonde." Davis does her standard airhead thing (still a novelty in 1989) and Goldblum is a studly if silent lead. Make sure you pay close attention to Goldblum's alien sidekicks, two then-unknown actors named Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, both of whom manage to steal scenes with surprisingly understated charm. --Mark Englehart
Earth Girls Are Easy Reviews:
Blast from the past 
2009-07-10 - It's hard to say if I'd like this movie if I didn't remember the 80s. But considering the 80s are the decade during which I graduated high school and college, and therefore was quite familiar with the odd way we dressed, wore our hair and socialized, this movie strikes a fond chord for me.
Evoking those days might be painful, but this movie does it in such a light hearted way, that even memories of shallow posturing at shallow nightclubs is charming when seen through the eyes of these 3 aliens.
I'd watch it for 3 scenes alone:
1) We are HUMAN now!
2) Jeff Goldblum emerging from the tanning booth
3) The dance competition (hero/zero)
Fun from space!!! 
2009-02-16 - A great crazy little movie,if your in the mood for a movie that you don,t have to think and to help get your mind off of your day. Has great actors lots of fun and singing to. Geena Davis is supurb as a flake. I really enjoyed it hope you do to.
Earth girls are easy review 
2008-09-01 - I got the DVD in good condition and played it that night. I remember what a silly movie it was when I watched it and loved every moment of it.
Very funny movie
2008-06-21 - This is a quite funny movie which strangely many people are not familiar with. Jim Carrey has a small role as well, and you see hints as to why he became such a big star in "physical comedies." Geena Davis plays a 20 something "Valley Girl", living with her boyfriend, when a spaceship crashes into her backyard swimming pool. She and her best friend befriend "eventually" human looking three men, who have various adventures in the Valley. Geena Davis spends quite a bit of the movie in a bikini which is not hard on the eyes either. Really, a very funny movie.
JUST PLAIN BAD 
2008-03-30 - How so many people could give a positive review to a movie that is written, directed and especially acted as badly as this is beyond me. My guess is that most of them were teenagers when this came out and have a kind of soft for it. Unfortunately, that soft spot is in their heads.
