What Planet Are You From?: Critic Reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Bening, even in a formula role like this one, is so lovable she actually makes you believe that she'd melt the resolve of a technocratic space visitor.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Just what the universe needs. A movie that forces you to fixate on Garry Shandling's crotch.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

If you're expecting humor of the Sanders quality here, you won't get it, nor will you find that Shandling has a wide enough range as an actor.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Has a lot of jokes that register intellectually, but rarely does it poke you in a place where you can't help but squeal.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

Bottom line, this is American Pie for boys-will -be- boys in the fiftysomething age range.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Thirteen year-old boys would love the film if they could get into this R-rated picture.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Easily the funniest movie of the year.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

The film just sort of lies there -- inspiration gone, premise spent, synthentic possibilities utterly exhausted.
Full Review » 12 years ago
John Hartl Film.com (Top Critic)

Whatever planet produced this sex comedy, it's not indicating many signs of intelligent life.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

The picture barely works as a silly adult sex farce, it isn't nearly freewheeling and naughty enough.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

Bogs down in weak dramaturgy about love and commitment.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

38

Shandling's a bland black hole that obliterates whatever trace of energy or inspiration mustered by this unwieldy film.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

50

It all seems to suffer from jet lag and a lame script and a bad case of crassness.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

20

The movie offers not one shred of insight, comic or otherwise, into the eternal conflict between the sexes.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

17

...what are Mike Nichols and Annette Bening doing here?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Karina Montgomery Cinerina

40

There are some amusing cameos and small parts and a number of very good one liners, but by god, this is really a shame.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

0

Lightweight material to be sure, but it's fun just the same.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Blake French NutzWorld

75

One of the most honest comedies I can remember ... connected with my unusual sense of humor.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Doris Toumarkine Film Journal International

The film fails on just about every count.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jim Judy Screen It!

The film's charismatic cast certainly makes the film easy enough to watch, but one constantly expects and wishes for the film to deliver more than it ultimately does.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor

50

Although it offers a few good laughs, the movie often seems like a second-rate parody of more original pictures.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Steve Simels TV Guide's Movie Guide

50

You walk out remembering the humming noise in Harold's pants and not much else.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert At the Movies

25

If you're making a movie about a man who has a strange noise coming from his pants, you should cast an actor who looks different when it isn't.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Randall King Winnipeg Sun

Nichols' film is distinctive from his other sex comedies in that it aims lower than the brain.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dave Kehr Citysearch

What Planet Are You From? has a couple of good ideas and a lot of dead air.
Full Review » 12 years ago