I understood that it was meant to be a campy, B-rate hybrid between comedy, sci-fi, musical and romance and it starts out well. I liked the opening musical numbers, and there are even some laughs to start out with, like in the scene where Geena Davis tries to spice up her sex life with her fiance. But after a while, the movie wears out its welcome and gets too campy for its own good. I'm able to suspend the disbelief of the aliens having their hairy bodies shaved and appearing human--it's a quite creative idea--but I wasn't able to forgive other goofy plot holes, like the aliens landing on earth with no knowledge of the English vocabulary and imitating the lines they hear from movies and TV shows, and in no time they speak the language fluently. I love the fish-out-of-water idea of aliens appearing as humans and walking the earth, because it's a premise that can go quite far, as we've seen in the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun." What makes the idea so funny is that the fact that no matter how different they act than the average human being, the people around them simply think they're stupid humans rather than aliens. And it's a believable paradox, since a minority of people believe that aliens exist and an even smaller minority believe that they walk the earth in the form of humans. Once the movie arrives around the 1/2-hour mark, we're faced with flat sight gags and horrible cliches. However, I did enjoy Julie Brown's musical number, "'Cause I'm a Blonde." I still cannot get the song out of my head, and I'm faintly humming it at this moment. Geena Davis is a fine actress, who I don't see much of anymore, not to mention she's very beautiful. She helps boost the film's merit a couple notches. Jeff Goldblum looks like he walked onto the wrong movie set. I don't think I've ever seen him look more bored in a performance. Maybe he just wanted to re-team with Davis, after having worked together in "The Fly." "Earth Girls Are Easy" definitely has its fun moments, but after a while that fun dissolves into sheer stupidity.
My score: 5 (out of 10)
My score: 5 (out of 10)