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Waste of time

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

To be honest this movie sucks. So many big actors in it. Plot is dumb. Everything is dumb. Dan's nose is all I thought of from Nothing But Trouble.

Dan Aykroyd and fellow writers from TV's long-running "Saturday Night Live" wrote this Sci-Fi comedy. Aykroyd had a way with subtlety in his comedy, and would slip in sensitive matter at times. It wasn't in- your-face mockery or blatant poking, but gentle treatment that was amusing. It would usually dawn on the audience that there was a gentle, humorous poke or statement that would make one smile. It's often easy to miss the subtle with so much more of the obvious attacks of humor.I think we see a lot of that in Coneheads. Their outlandish appearance with those long, pointed heads, makes us laugh initially, and then chuckle a few more times in the film. Yet, the human beings on earth – in America where they land and take up residence, seem oblivious to their appearance. I think that's a jab at reality. The message is that we're supposed to be accepting of people who are different. OK, but here, it's as though no one notices the obvious differences in the Coneheads.I remember a charity program that my work establishment held each year in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We picked a single charity each year to benefit from a few events during one week – a dance, a lunch or dinner, a fair. At the outdoor picnic fund-raising fair one year, a table had T-shirts that read, "Love sees no color." I understood what they intended, but it struck me as wrong. It seemed to deny the reality of our nature – our vision. As such, it suggested indifference. Rather, love should notice differences and accept them, not deny them. Because denying differences, or turning a blind eye, denies the person. I talked with people at the table about it and after a short time, they had new T-shirts that read, "Love sees all colors." That was a more truthful and much better message about acceptance.Of course, the presence of the Coneheads is anything but subtle, and I think that's a big piece of the humor. It pokes fun at the societal mores of the time that deny natural senses. And, this film has more subtleties. The way the Coneheads speak with rearranged sentences and choice words is hilarious. We know what they are doing as writers and actors, and yet it's very funny. But it doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary with the people they encounter.Then, there's Beldar's skills that show his advanced knowledge. He drives a taxi and yet he has so much knowledge and inventive skills. Think about many immigrants over the decades. Skilled craftsmen, professionals, even doctors have come to the U.S. to flee persecution or oppression, and they wind up in everyday blue-collar jobs. I think this film had a lot of social messaging intertwined in the sci-fi humor. Or, maybe it was designed as a social commentary with the sci-fi and humor as the medium. Anyway, the comedy of this film is much better than many of the IMDb reviewers seem to think. Yet this was a highly successful box office film in 1993. When I first saw it in the theater back then, a sizable audience seemed to enjoy it no end. At least, judging from the comments and laughter I heard leaving the theater. Perhaps mankind is losing its sense of humor and cognitive abilities with our growing dependence on anti- social media.

I literally laughed at the thought of Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin were putting on such a high pitched alien voice. They were good but it got literally annoying throughout the film. Lucky enough, Michelle Burke who played the daughter used her own nice voice so it wouldn't be quite irritating for all of them to use that silly voice.I was so thrilled to see Chris Farley among the other SNL stars! It was too bad that his character and Connie didn't make love properly as she kept sucking his lips like a vacuum cleaner. I really thought the writers should've rethought the whole movie because some of the ways the 'aliens' make, they actually would make you cringe and feel disgusted after. If you care to see a OK but messed up movie, be my guest!

A conundrum of a movie, in that it's not funny or endearing, but obviously made and billed to be both funny and endearing. The movie was born from ancient SNL sketches that were only ever sort of funny, nostalgia took care of the rest. A forgettable movie, like I know the Coneheads are in the movie but I don't remember what they do or why they do whatever it is being done, like well over a hour of film is spent on central characters who are aliens from outer space trying to live on Earth incognito and its an utterly forgettable movie, that's not on me, I didn't screw that up. That the aliens' perspective on Earthling culture could be used for devastating satire was in no way utilized or even realized, I mean would you go to a knife fight and fight with a pocket- knife when you have Glock .9 strapped to your hip? Some important life-or-death struggle and you don't use your best weapon?