Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
Earth Girls Are Easy is a wonderfully oddball cult artifact that earns its distinctiveness through sheer commitment to its campy, neon-soaked 1980s LA valley girl aesthetic merged with alien musical comedy. The novelty is genuine — there's really nothing quite like it, blending Geena Davis's comic timing, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans in early breakout roles, and a Julie Brown musical sensibility into a singular time capsule. The plot is thin and episodic, more a series of colorful set pieces than a cohesive narrative, and the ending resolves somewhat predictably and flatly. Cinematography captures the garish SoCal pastels and pop-video energy effectively if not artfully. Acting is fun and loose, carried by an energetic ensemble rather than any deep performance. The whole enterprise is deliberately shallow but gloriously committed to its own absurd wavelength.