1993 · comedy · sci-fi · space
Coneheads
Directed by Steve Barron1h 27m1993
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
Our read: Coneheads (1993) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sci-fi · space entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Watching Coneheads tonight? Spin for your lens.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Coneheads feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want silly SNL sketch energy stretched into affectionate alien suburban comedy.”
Skip it tonight — You need tight plotting or humor that has aged gracefully everywhere.
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