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My Favorite Martian (1999)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 37

Loud, effects-ridden comedy with no real humor.

22

Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 7

Loud, effects-ridden comedy with no real humor.

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Average Rating: 2.5/5
User Ratings: 50,688

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Movie Info

My Favorite Martian stars Jeff Daniels as Tim O'Hara, once a newspaper man and now a struggling television producer in Santa Barbara. Tim has a crush on vapid news reporter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley) while overlooking his feelings for Lizzie (Daryl Hannah), a technician working at the station. Driving home one night, Tim wanders upon the crash landing of a spaceship from Mars. The Martian inside (Christopher Lloyd) has come to Earth searching for a fellow Martian who had been lost here 35

Jul 17, 2001

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All Critics (51) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (37) | DVD (7)

Walston displays a crisp wit and blithe sense of whimsy otherwise lacking in this loser.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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What we have here is a highly agreeable cast goofing around within the familiar parameters of the alien-lost-on-Earth story, to absolutely no purpose except killing time.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Travel from Mars to Earth is an amazing feat, but not much more remarkable than reviving a sitcom that had been dead for a third of a century.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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This is entertainment of the lightest, most inconsequential sort.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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A terrible movie -- beware.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

There isn't enough nostalgia for the old series to recommend for any beyond the most juvenile mind-set.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

An utterly pointless and unimaginative remake based on the classic '60s sitcom...a meteoric misfire

May 27, 2003 Comment
TheWorldJournal.com

Only the total collapse of Hollywood can save us from a reprise of My Mother the Car.

March 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
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Pretty funny.

August 5, 2007
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Good if you just want to watch a movie and laugh - no thinking required

April 14, 2007
Redlats

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