Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 23, 1993 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
5
Negative:
6
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75
The Seattle TimesJeff Shannon
Director Steve Barron guides the mayhem with controlled abandon, and the script contains just enough simplistic plot to give the 88-minute comedy an adequate foundation. [23 July 1993]
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchHarper Barnes
Helped by dozens of throw-away sight gags, and almost every minor comedian who has ever appeared on the seminal television comedy series, Coneheads is surprisingly funny. [23 July 1993, p.3F]
67
Surprisingly, you won't find a more laugh-filled source of entertainment in theaters in any galaxy right now. [23 July 1993, p.8]
60
As in the sketches, the Coneheads are humorously outrageous, but somehow they don't seem quite as humorously outrageous as they did 20 years ago. [23 July 1993, p.6]
50
There's no getting around the fact that the movie is pretty ponderous. The problem is that its writers and producers haven't really expanded or deepened the basic Conehead setup - they mostly drown it in more time and money than it ever had the first time around. [23 July 1993, p.42]
38
I got tired of Coneheads early on, but I never really got tired of looking at those heads.
38
What once was spontaneous and clever now has the stench (in Conehead-speak) of rotten chicken embryos. [23 July 1993, p.5D]
30
NewsweekJeff Giles
An amiable comedy without a thought in its point head. [2 Aug 1993, p.55]
25
It's a dreadful bore. [23 July 1993, p.G5]