What Planet Are You From?

Pros: Annette Bening mostly acquits herself...
Cons: Shandling, Goodman, script

What Planet are You From?, the ill-conceived, uninspired teaming of Mike Nichols and Garry Shandling, is at times painful to watch. Not because of its over-reliance on low-brow humor and general lack of plot, but because such intelligent, talented ...

Pros: Good cast, lots of twists
Cons: Some wasted supporting roles than went no where

What Planet Are You From is a science fiction romantic comedy with an all-star cast and a top-notch director. If the buzz gets around on this one, it'll do well at the box office.

The basic story of this movie is that an alien race has...

Pros: Sarcasm at it's best!
Cons: Didn't last long enough.

This is my first attempt at a movie review, so please be kind, and if you notice anything lacking, please write me a comment, and I will be glad to make adjustments.

Now on to the movie..........

I was very hesitant and skeptical to...

Pros: Annette Bening
Cons: Bad script

What Planet Are You From? Is a movie about the battle of the sexes, cleverly disguised as a movie about a man from another planet, trying to relate to a woman from this planet.

Garry Shandling plays the alien, with the earth name Harold...

Pros: wasn't completely terrible
Cons: Overall, not very funny

With the recent bombardment of dramatic new releases at my video store, I was in desperate need of a laugh-so-hard-you-fall-off-your-chair comedy. Without many options, I decided to give What Planet Are You From? a try. With Gary Shandling...

Pros: Script, supporting cast
Cons: If you have a spouse, this film may resemble your marriage.

An all-male planet (name unspecified, but it has three ring systems, like an atom with electrons in three orbits) with a population of 4 million and led by Graydon (Ben Kingsley), decides it wishes to take over Earth by breeding with ...

Pros: Good Cast, Funny Parts
Cons: Repetitive humor

Garry Shandling's "What Planet Are You From" is like a really long joke. It basically has just one punch line. This is a funny joke, but like most jokes this film is easily forgotten.

Basic plot: Shandling plays and alien who comes...

Pros: Hey I've always liked Gary
Cons: Not a perfect comedy, drags sometimes, some poor writing

Not that I expected much from a movie starring Gary Shandling as an alien with humming endowments, but I pretty got what I expected and a little bit more...

When I first saw the previews for this film, I thought it was a trailer for the return...

Pros: Shandling, Bening, Goodman
Cons: Cliched script, sappy ending, shoddy material to work with

I went to go see this movie with some anticipation, I must admit, as I have always been a huge fan of Shandling and the Larry Sanders show. Perhaps my first mistake was going into a movie with any expectations, as lately I have found this just...

Pros: Very funny, well acted
Cons: A little bit of a slightly too serious third act

Somewhere out there is a planet of men who have evolved to the point where they no longer breed. They clone themselves and have no need for their sexual organs. But, when it comes time to conquer earth, they need to do so from within by having an agent...

Pros: Absolutely hilarious movie from an Oscar-quality cast
Cons: A lot of immature, low-brow humor, some of which just doesn't work

So it's the year 2000, and the studios have finally given us a Gary Shandling vehicle. What Planet Are You From? will turn some moviegoers right off (I'm already seeing a lot of one- and two-star reviews popping up, and the movie hasn't even been...

Pros: Noisy mechanical dingdong
Cons: Goes on a little too long. (The dingdong.)

Mike Nichols brought us three of the greatest movies about sex: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Carnal Knowledge," and "The Graduate."
For those three movies alone, he is still considered a great director. Actually,...

Pros: Really funny beginning, pretty funny ending
Cons: Boring middle

I would have really given this movie two and a half stars, but since the option does not allow it, I had to round down for the sake of my point. Anyway: A friend of mine is a manager of a local theater and asked if I would like to see a screening of...

Pros: NONE
Cons: EVERYTHING

Like most film critics, I have a certain adoration for Mike Nichols. Through the many rough years of film that have occurred since his breakout with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966, Nichols has constantly brought a treat with some variation on...

Pros: Good cast. Very funny and pointed at times.
Cons: Uneven. Some gags are overdone.

The premise behind director Mike Nichols's uneven, but oft-times pointedly funny film, "What Planet are You From?" is thus: The year is 2,999, and an alien race of highly evolved, emotionless, intelligent male beings, who propagate their...