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What Planet Are You From? (2000)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 45

Though What Planet Are You From? has some laughs, it's too inconsistent and bland for critics to give it their recommendations.

Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 16

Though What Planet Are You From? has some laughs, it's too inconsistent and bland for critics to give it their recommendations.

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Movie Info

Garry Shandling makes his big-screen debut as a leading man in this sci-fi romantic comedy. Harold (Shandling) is an alien from another galaxy sent to Earth on a vital mission: in order to ensure that his civilization will prevail, Harold must impregnate an Earth woman. But he discovers that this is more easily said than done, as he quickly gets a crash course in the arcane rituals of the human courtship process. What's worse, just when Harold thinks he's making progress in Earthbound seduction,

R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Directed By: Mike Nichols

Written By: Garry Shandling, Michael Leeson, Ed Solomon, Peter Tolan

In Theaters: Mar 3, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Jul 18, 2000

Columbia Pictures

What Planet Are You From? Trailer & Photos

Cast

Garry Shandling
Harold Anderson
Annette Bening
Susan
Greg Kinnear
Perry Gordon
Ben Kingsley
Graydon
Linda Fiorentino
Helen Gordon
John Goodman
Roland Jones
Richard Jenkins
Don Fisk
Caroline Aaron
Nadine
Judy Greer
Rebecca
Nora Dunn
Madeline
Ann Cusack
Liz
Camryn Manheim
Alison
Janeane Garofalo
Earth Woman (uncredited...

Critic Reviews for What Planet Are You From?

All Critics (95) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (45) | DVD (12)

This movie wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Elvis Mitchell

New York Times

Top Critic

The film just sort of lies there -- inspiration gone, premise spent, synthentic possibilities utterly exhausted.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

Whatever planet produced this sex comedy, it's not indicating many signs of intelligent life.

January 1, 2000 Comment

John Hartl

Film.com

Top Critic

Shandling and director Mike Nichols find a funny new way of packaging the old truth in What Planet Are You From?

January 1, 2000 Comment

Tom Keogh

Film.com

Top Critic

It's amazing that a movie with so many sex jokes can turn out to be so unfunny.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

The picture barely works as a silly adult sex farce, it isn't nearly freewheeling and naughty enough.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

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Shandling's a bland black hole that obliterates whatever trace of energy or inspiration mustered by this unwieldy film.

January 8, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

It all seems to suffer from jet lag and a lame script and a bad case of crassness.

January 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The movie offers not one shred of insight, comic or otherwise, into the eternal conflict between the sexes.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

...what are Mike Nichols and Annette Bening doing here?

January 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

There are some amusing cameos and small parts and a number of very good one liners, but by god, this is really a shame.

July 1, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

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I watched this movie really wasted, so I'm not sure if this review is really all that fair. From what I remember there are some great, funny scenes from a really talented cast. Kinnear has some really funny asshole moments and John Goodman seems to make anything work. Annette Bening is the definition of a cougar and

April 24, 2009