
A highly advanced civilization, whose citizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to conquer Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate a human and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an A.A. meeting, mee... (Full plot summary below)
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A highly advanced civilization, whose citizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to conquer Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate a human and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an A.A. meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry him. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?
Leave your thoughts about What Planet Are You From?.
| New York PostLou LumenickIt's still easily the funniest movie of the year. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy. |
| Moviereviews.orgMac VerstandigFind this funny? So do I. But not for two hours. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversA bawdy, brainy sex comedy geared toward smart people with a sophomoric streak. |
| Miami HeraldPhoebe FlowersAn unapologetically stupid and implausible movie, but in the best possible way -- it's so sure of itself, it wins you over. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyThe trouble is that the film forsakes one sort of energy for another, and the downshift is a drag. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt all seems to suffer from jet lag and a lame script and a bad case of crassness. |
| Film.comTom KeoghLet your children have their childhood while you have a rare, grown-up experience at the multi-plex for a change. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenWhat Planet Are You From? should have been funnier. |