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Yar, you be here: My Stepmother Is an Alien > Customer Reviews My Stepmother Is an Alien Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 13 Reviews)Cute movie with great Dan Aykroyd lines and Jon Brant's band Siren on Soundtrack!
Siren, which later had to change their name to Red Siren (after Jon had left) had it's 'retracted' second single "One good lover" from it's debut LP on this hip movie's soundtrack. Kim Bassinger is atractive in parring with Aykroyd, in his best movie since 'The Great Outdoors' with late Canuck- mate John Candy. SNEEZES, SEX AND HAM AND CHEESE ON RYE
This is a deliriously silly little movie, but it's fun to watch. Kim Basinger utilizes her breathtaking beauty to its fullest as she discovers the joys of becoming human, from sneezing to sex to ham and cheese on rye with mayo. Basinger's comic timing carries the movie, and even the usually disposable Dan Aykroyd's performance is comic and he and Basinger have a good chemistry. There are some delightful sequences, e.g., when Kim has to discover how to kiss, her alien ally shows her films of several different types of kisses, and when she has to have sex, she does a sensual striptease replete with windblown hair and all. Jon Lovitz is around for comic relief as Aykroyd's bachelor brother, and it's all mindless nonsense; it's also quite entertaining. Basinger is a blast. Barberella Psychadela It's Not
The opening strip scene is reminiscent of Barbarella - too bad those aren't Basinger's legs though. Nerdy scientist falls for galactic beauty as presented by Kim Basinger. I have never understood Ackroyd's characters. And keeping in form, he is once again as unfunny as mud. Basinger tries so hard - too hard - to rescue this film, but that's no small task considering the ineptness of this way silly film. OK so she munches on batteries, and thinks she has to cook everything in the kitchen at mealtime. She seems a genuine Betty Crocker given that her favorite foods are nuts and bolts. Jon Lovitch also tries to prop up Ackroyd and this weak script. However, his contribution seems way overstated to me. He doesn't have much to do. Funny are the scenes inwhere the teenage girl eventually decides that her step-mother is not like other people. Basinger's character has a magic purse with an annoying creepy critter in it who tells her what to do. Think, Jar-Jar Blinks. I suppose it's OK as a backdrop for housecleaning. But that's it. Flat and mechanical.
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