Earth Girls Are Easy

(UK - US)

Kestrel/Odyssey. Director Julien Temple; Producer Tony Garnett; Screenplay Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, Terrence E. McNally; Camera Oliver Stapleton; Editor Richard Halsey; Music Nile Rodgers, Chaz Jankel, David Storrs; Art Director Dennis Gassner

Geena Davis
Jeff Goldblum
Julie Brown
Jim Carrey
Damon Wayans
Michael McKean

Earth Girls Are Easy is a dizzy, glitzy fish-out-of-water farce about three horny aliens on the make in LA.

Julie (Geena Davis), a gorgeous Valley Girl, works as a manicurist in high-tech beauty salon operated by Candy (Julie Brown) a Val-Queen supreme who likes good times and good sex.

Meanwhile in outer space, three aliens who look like tie-dyed werewolves are wandering around our solar system going bonkers with randiness. In keeping with the film's hot-pastel, contempo-trash design motif, their spacecraft looks like the inside of a pinball machine. When it lands in Julie's swimming pool, the broken-hearted girl who's just broken off with her nogoodnik lover takes it for an oversized hair dryer.

Julie brings this gruesome threesome to Candy's beauty parlor for a complete 'makeover.' They emerge as three hairless hunky dudes: the captain, Jeff Goldblum and two flaked-out crewmen, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The two val-gals and their alien 'dates' take off for a weekend of LA nightlife, where the visitors' smooth adaptation to Coast culture is intended by director Julian Temple and his screenwriters to affectionately skewer Tinseltown lifestyles.

(Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1988. Running time: 100 MIN.

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