What Planet Are You From?
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
11
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Rolling StonePeter Travers
This comedy is packed with p---- jokes, the cruder the better.
75
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
A bawdy, brainy sex comedy geared toward smart people with a sophomoric streak. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldPhoebe Flowers
An unapologetically stupid and implausible movie, but in the best possible way -- it's so sure of itself, it wins you over. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The trouble is that the film forsakes one sort of energy for another, and the downshift is a drag. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
It's still easily the funniest movie of the year. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles. Read full review
70
Film.comTom Keogh
Let your children have their childhood while you have a rare, grown-up experience at the multi-plex for a change. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
In another universe - though it is difficult to imagine which one - Garry Shandling might be sexy. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMarc Caro
Shandling and Nichols strain to reach a mainstream audience and wind up sounding like they, too, have been trained to tell us what we want to hear. Sorry, guys, but you don't score. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The film's asset, in a walk, is Bening, whose comic timing puts Shandling to shame. Read full review
60
TNT RoughCutGraham Verdon
With Gary Shandling appearing in just about every scene, only fans of his trademark whiny, disinterested delivery and sexist un-political correctness have a hope of enjoying his new film.
60
SlateDavid Edelstein
Garry Shandling is poignant and hilarious as an alien stud. Read full review
50
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Nichols usually can lure A-list casts to even C-grade projects, and this is no exception. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
It's good for a few guffaws and chuckles, but in between the screen has a tendency to stretch at the corners and go flat. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Goodman's comic delivery gets maximum mileage from a few amusing situations, though. Read full review
50
Village VoiceDennis Lim
There's a certain satisfaction in recognizing that Harold -- even when he inevitably starts to feel, just like a human -- remains something of an a--hole. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
Unfortunately the whole thing is less than the sum of its parts, despite a frequently droll script and a great performance from Shandling. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Good for a few lascivious titters but quite lacking in the sort of comic bite and social satire one hopes for in the work of Mike Nichols. Read full review
48
Mr. ShowbizRichard T. Jameson
This one somehow gets about 300 percent better in its last quarter-hour -- suddenly this is a movie worth watching -- and it's over. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The buildup to social criticism in what at first appears to be pointless and partly misogynist exploitation is subtly impressive. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Has its sinfully funny moments. Funny, that is, if you appreciate a certain cynical clamminess -- or Buck Henry seediness -- to your comedy. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Adequately breezy and sleazy -- a movie about the horniest man in the universe looking for a little one-night stand. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Falls disastrously flat. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Here is the most uncomfortable movie of the new year, an exercise in feel-good smut. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Shandling comes off as a sleazebag -- all that's missing are the gold chains, tufted chest hair and English Leather. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Sporadically funny, often strange and almost never poignant. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Quite possibly, this could have been a hit back in 1975 or so, and almost certainly for Blake Edwards, but here and now it's just a puzzling aberration. Read full review
20
TimeRichard Schickel
At once smug and lazy, qualities fatal to comedy. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Bening's prickliness is pure delight, but there's only so much she can do. It's a terrible fate for an actress to be upstaged by a humming p----. Read full review
10
NewsweekDavid Ansen
The combination of Shandling's button-down TV sensibility and Nichols's good taste produces a film whose tone is out of sync with the simple, ribald conceit and is only mildly amusing at best. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite. Read full review
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