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Coneheads

Egg-headed aliens Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin splash down in New Jersey and must learn to survive in suburbia. Strangely, they fit right in. Expanded from Aykroyd's Saturday Night Live sketches, it's all daft, good-natured fun. Spot the fresh-faced stars who eventually made it big including Ellen DeGeneres, Seinfeld's Michael Richards and a fresh-faced lad named Adam Sandler.

Movie rating:
Stars:	Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley
Director:	Steve Barron
Year:	1993
Running time:	88 mins
Certificate:	PG

The cream of TV's 'Saturday Night Live' talent pooled its resources for this dose of supreme daftness.

Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin play a pair of pointy-headed emissaries from the planet Remulak who crash-land in New York's East River. Assuming the aliases Mr and Mrs Conehead (that's one of the wittier jokes), the couple settles in New Jersey.

Plenty of slapstick antics follow in a surprisingly sweet-natured romp whose combination of the outrageous and the mundane provides appealing if very silly entertainment.

A bit like Meet the Applegates without the underlying nastiness, the yarn is brief enough to enable director Steve Barron to maintain a sprightly pace.

The late, overweight Chris Farley and David Spade have supporting roles and there are unbilled cameo turns by Jon Lovitz, Adam Sandler, Seinfeld's Michael Richards, Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Arnold.

User reviews

Christopher Davie

This movie is one you can watch over and over not because it's a fantastic movie but because if there is nothing else on this movie is a good space filler at first it's a case of spotting the celebrities who have lended themselves to the movie. Funny scenes throughout aswell as early roles for Chris Farley and David Spade, also keep an eye out for the late Phil Hartman famous for the Simpsons who also makes an appearence. This movie is great fun and good for a chuckle.