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Nice effects though.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Tim (Gary Daniels) wants desperately to break into serious television reporting. When a job he begged for goes awry, he is fired. His beautiful but empty girlfriend (Elizabeth Hurley) says sayonara, too. Coming home, Tim is startled to discover his house has an uninvited visitor (Christopher Lloyd) from the planet Mars! Calling him Uncle Martin, Tim soon tries to help his new friend navigate life on earth. But, Martin gets in trouble wherever he goes, from the bathroom to the laundry room and more. Lovely Lizzie (Daryl Hannah) finally sees an opportunity to make time with Tim but the course of true love does not run smooth in this case, either. Soon everyone in television is stalking Tim, hoping for a story about a true alien. What's a man to do? For those who loved the old television show of the same name, with Bill Bixby and Ray Walston, this film is not worthy to tie the proverbial boots. Its truly, undeniably awful, with no plot and a reliance on supposed special effects which fall flat, too. Daniels is okay as the earthling but Lloyd is simply terrible as the alien, overacting up a storm. The rest of the cast is adequate, as are the costumes, set, and production details. Even if your children see the cover and beg for this film, convince them to pick out another flick at the video store. Be assured, kids and adults will find this movie a colossal bore, so opt for A Night at the Museum or Around the World in 80 Days instead.

Shazbot, is this embarrassing. In fact, here's a list of 100 that makes up the embarrassment: 1.) a failed comeback for Christopher Lloyd. 2.) Jeff Daniels basically playing the same role he played in the live 101 Dalmatians remake which wasn't too juicy to begin with. He sure has a funny way of promoting his Purple Rose Theatre... 3.) Disnefluff. 4.) another disappointing reminder that Wallace Shawn is to Disney what Jet Li was to Bob Hoskins in Unleashed. 5.) Ray Walston, the original martian from the TV series, played a bit part (read "cameo") in this flick and died two years later of lupus. Coincidence? 6.) awful special effects. Seriously - awful. 7.-100.) that damn talking, farting suit voiced to an annoying degree by Wayne Knight ("Newman!"). My favorite scene? HA! HA ha, ha! Ha ha ha ha ha... Whew!... Good one. You - You're a joker. Okay, let's wrap up this review with a moment of silence for this franchise's agonizing death, and if you would like, you can say a quick prayer that Disney doesn't forget this travesty and do something silly like a movie adaptation of "Mork and Mindy" starring Tim Allen.........................................................

The last time I watched this film was when I was being looked after by a regular babysitter, we chose it to watch, at the time naturally I would enjoy it, in my adulthood, that was a different matter, from director Donald Petrie (Mystic Pizza, Miss Congeniality). Basically life for Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is terrible at the moment, being fired from his job as a news producer by Mr. Channing (Godzilla's Michael Lerner), father of his girlfriend, reporter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley). Then his life changes when he discovers a martian crash landed to Earth, this alien forms into a human and becomes "Uncle Martin" (Christopher Lloyd), and he stays with him while he fixes his ship. It starts as a complicated situation where Tim has to keep an eye on Martin and his walking talking silver space suit Zoot (Wayne Knight), and he films the alien in his true form while in the jacuzzi. But this relationship slowly turns into a fond friendship as the antics of the alien grow on the Tim, and he cannot bring himself round to revealing this huge story to the world, despite how much it would do for him. Of course, after some crazy antics involving Zoot flirting with women's clothing, Martin stuffing his face with floating ice cream, and his ability to change his appearance into his friend in front of Tim's new girlfriend Lizzie (Daryl Hannah), the truth does nearly come out. Ruthless reporter Brace manages to find the secret filming in Tim's house and takes it to break the story, and this comes at the wrong time, because Martin reveals if he doesn't leave the planet soon his ship will explode. In the end the nasty Coleye (Toy Story's Wallace Shawn) who wants to catch an alien gets his comeuppance, and Martin was planning to go back to Mars, but he can't find it in himself to leave his friend Tim. Also starring Christine Ebersole as Mrs. Brown, Jeremy Hotz as Billy, Ray Walston as Armitan and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective's Troy Evans as Captain Dalton. It might have some good names in the cast, and it might have some alright special effects in moments, but neither of these things do the film any favours whatsoever, it is overly childish and a most appallingly predictable story based on a television show, a ridiculous and pointless family science-fiction comedy. Poor!

I grew up watching the original TV series in the sixties and one thing that I can tell you right away, there is NO comparison. This film was totally ridiculous with a flying suit that was alive. A martian that took different shapes. Special effects that looked like something that a little child would create. In contrast, in the original, characters were developed and the viewers developed a feeling for Tim and Uncle Martin. The only highlight in this film, yes, actually there was one, occurred when Ray Walston finally made an appearance at the end. He wore dark glasses and made references to living on this planet for 30 years as a sort of homage to the TV series. But even the real Uncle Martin could not save this turkey.