The opticals are somewhat flat but this is a film where such could be entirely deliberate and would only add to the fun. A black-and-white dream sequence features guest appearances from Forbidden Planet (1956)’s Robbie the Robot, several creatures from The Outer Limits (1963-5) and the tin-hatted robots from the Captain Video (1951). Brown had originally conceived the film to star herself but with the entry of Julien Temple and it getting a decent budget, she lacked a marketable name and so sold it with her as the best friend (much to her regret). Particularly funny is Julie Brown (upon whose wittily parodistic musical material the film is based) and her songs, which include one wonderfully malicious number entitled Cause I’m a Blonde. As the other aliens, the film features both Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, before either appeared on the stand-up show In Living Color (1990-4) and broke through to the big-time as major comedy stars. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum, then a married couple in real-life, give a pair of nicely twinkling performances. The aliens (l to r) Zeebo (Damon Wayans), Mac (Jeff Goldblum) and Wiploc (Jim Carrey) with earth girls Geena Davis (l) and Julie Brown (r) Or the manically choreographed antics of the aliens, devouring goldfish, mimicking tv ads and answering machines, and interpreting Geena Davis’s screams and gape-jawed expressions as a form of communication. One or two of the sketches go on a little too long but most are a delight – like Geena Davis’s doleful song-and-dance orgy of destruction through her house with a golf-club after she kicks boyfriend Charles Rocket out. Everything takes place in the glossy primary-colour pop wonderland of tv commercial reality. Julien Temple designs Earth Girls Are Easy as series of giddily effervescent song-and-dance numbers and slapstick sketches. Theatrically, Temple premiered with the cult Sex Pistols documentary The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (1980) and his previous venture out onto cinema screens had been the visually inventive quasi-fantastical Absolute Beginners (1986).Įarth Girls Are Easy plays like a much better version of Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984), an obscure and completely terrible effort from a few years earlier. It was made by Julien Temple, an acclaimed music video director who had made a number of famous cutting-edge MTV clips for artists such as Blur, David Bowie, Culture Club, Depeche Mode, Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Sade, Van Halen and Neil Young, among others. It is a manic, madcap, wilfully insubstantial piece of self-conscious pop culture. Earth Girls Are Easy makes no excuses about itself – it has no other purpose than to have a party.
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