What Planet Are You From?
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
11
Negative:
10
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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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