...an exceedingly hit-and-miss comedy that fares best in its affable and easygoing opening stretch...

The science in the film may be imaginary, the premise ridiculous, the escalation toward the conclusion absurdly exponential, yet it's difficult to not be charmed by it. In the parlance of the modern era, the film understood the assignment.

A limp comedy that could easily have been tagged E.T. The Extremely Tedious.

interesting as a time capsule of a rather conservative brand of '80s excess, and as a gender-switched companion piece to Earth Girls Are Easy. But on its own merits, it is what it is: a committee-written, dumb-assed mess, less amusing than alienating

Akroyd and Basinger give the film an infectious stroke of energy, and by the end we continue to smile even as we are exhausted under the weight of endless nonsense.

Pretty dumb fantasy-sci-fi-comedy directed by Richard Benjamin.

Not nearly as bad as advertised.

Harmless.

There were more laughs in "Nine and a Half Weeks"

...and your movie is a joke.

What we have here is a goofy comic performance by Kim Basinger, weighed down by a turgid script and a decision to use Dan Aykroyd mostly as a straight man. Too bad.