Rotten
This movie wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
What Planet Are You From?
To save his planet, an alien must find a woman on Earth to have his baby. There's just one problem.
2000 · 1h 45m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by
Mike Nichols
Overview
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling 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 AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. 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?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A testicle-tweaking satire on men trying to get in touch with feelings most of them didn't know they had.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
The film just sort of lies there -- inspiration gone, premise spent, synthentic possibilities utterly exhausted.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
A rather sweet fable about sincerity.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
If you're expecting humor of the Sanders quality here, you won't get it, nor will you find that Shandling has a wide enough range as an actor.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
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