![]() The same year this came out, Davis was in The Accidental Tourist and Beetlejuice. Davis was probably bigger than Goldblum at the time. At this time, they both were established as big actors, having starred in The Fly together a couple of years earlier. I think Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum in the lead roles elevates the picture from being just a silly cult movie. So, while some may see this as specifically an artifact of the 1980s, a broader survey of cinema shows it is just a piece in a long tradition. The music, revealing the film to partially be a vehicle for Julie Brown’s kitschy pop of the time, adds to the underlying sense of a classic Hollywood film from the 1930s & 40s. You have a woman looking for love, betrayed by her partner, and through a series of magical circumstances, she meets her soulmate. At its core, this story is a pretty classic Hollywood farce plot. It’s not trying to say anything too profound, but it still manages to be sincere and truly sweet in moments. Ted becomes suspicious of these sudden guests and wants to get to the bottom of things.Įarth Girls Are Easy is an enjoyable and silly excursion. While Zeebo and Wiploc become enamored with the women around them, Mac seems to sense Valerie’s heartbreak and wants to help her. Valerie hopes to keep them in her house until their ship can leave the next day, but Candy wants to take them out to the Los Angeles party scene. In the meantime, she takes the aliens to Candy, who shaves them and makes them over, revealing they resemble human men underneath. ![]() Valerie learns their ship is flooded because of the pool and calls in the pool guy to drain it, which will take a whole day. His two crewmates Wiploc (Jim Carrey) and Zeebo (Damon Wayans), saw broadcasts from Earth of gorgeous women and took the ship off course, causing the crash. Inside are three technicolor furry aliens led by Mac (Jeff Goldblum). Valerie is despondent and lounging by her pool the next day when a spaceship crashes. She tries to get a makeover with help from her friend Candy (Julie Brown) but discovers Ted is cheating on her. Valerie (Geena Davis) is a valley girl working as a manicurist and set to marry Ted (Charles Rocket), her doctor boyfriend. With 1980s nostalgia being at its peak in the last few years, you would think a movie like this would get more attention, but it still remains a very obscure picture, or at least not brought up in discussion in the internet corners I frequent. I haven’t revisited it since those years, now as an adult, I figured it could be a part of this series, and I was interested to see what I would get from it now. My memories are incredibly spotty, and I remember images of the furry aliens and their transformation into resembling people. When I was a kid, this film, in its edited for television version, seemed to play often on one of the local channels, which pretty much bought and played anything they could find to fill airtime. Flying to Lewis' city and knocking on his door to ask.Written by Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, and Terrence E. That’s what prompted Temple to do something crazy. The problem was, during the late 80s Lewis had the fame of being “the most nasty man in showbusiness,” and that could be a problem since they needed permission from Lewis himself to be able to show clips of the movie. One of Lewis’ most famous movies, The Nutty Professor, not only served as inspiration for Temple, but also serves as an important plot device to move the story of Earth Girls Are Easy forward.Temple says that he loves visual gags, that he wanted the aliens to learn English from watching The Nutty Professor again and again. In the exclusive video, Temple reveals his passion for one of cinema’s most celebrated comedians: Jerry Lewis. In order do tease the highly anticipated release, Lionsgate shared with Collider a clip from one of the movie’s bonus features - the clip reveals how one of the cornerstone scenes in the movie almost didn’t come to life.The Blu-ray edition features a series of bonus features that celebrate the legacy of Earth Girls Are Easy, including an audio commentary track and an interview with the movie director Julien Temple. The musical comedy was one of the popular titles that never made it to the high-definition quality image era, but that changes today. For the first time ever, Earth Girls Are Easy is now available on Blu-ray from Lionsgate. As we reported back in September, 1980s movie enthusiasts have an extra reason to celebrate in 2022.
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