Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
Coneheads is a passable expansion of the beloved SNL sketch, but it struggles to sustain its one-joke premise across a feature runtime. The plot is thin and episodic, leaning heavily on the fish-out-of-water gimmick without much narrative momentum. The cast — including Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and a parade of SNL alumni — brings genuine comedic energy and commitment to the absurdist material, keeping things watchable. Visually, the film is pedestrian mid-90s studio fare with no particular cinematic ambition. While the Coneheads themselves are a distinctive creation, the movie's humor and structure feel fairly formulaic by feature-comedy standards. The ending resolves things tidily but without much invention or emotional payoff.