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What Planet Are You From?

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What Planet Are You From?

R

Released Mar 3, 2000

1h 44m

Comedy

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Harold is sent to Earth on a mission to impregnate a woman and have a child. Harold befriends Perry Gordon, a horny, morally challenged specimen of the human male, and together they scope Phoenix for women. On the prowl for the ideal woman with whom he can mate, the alien encounters a wide spectrum of potential candidates.

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Critics Consensus

Though What Planet Are You From? has some laughs, it's too inconsistent and bland for critics to give it their recommendations.

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 2/4

Apr 25, 2003

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Elvis Mitchell

New York Times

This movie wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.

Rated: 0.5/5

Jan 1, 2000

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Tom Keogh

Film.com

Shandling and director Mike Nichols find a funny new way of packaging the old truth in What Planet Are You From?

Jan 1, 2000

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…a truly awful comedy…trying to create a sci-fi analogue for men’s inability to understand women, but ends up just embodying the quality it’s supposedly trying to satirise….

Rated: 1/5

Jul 18, 2024

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Shandling's a bland black hole that obliterates whatever trace of energy or inspiration mustered by this unwieldy film.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jan 8, 2010

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Dennis Schwartz

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It all seems to suffer from jet lag and a lame script and a bad case of crassness.

Rated: C+

Jan 14, 2009

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Audience Member

This movie is funny. Don't believe the haters.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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I thought this movie was super funny!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Saw this movie several years ago for the first time, and I think it was completely underrated. There are many hilarious performances and cameos from Greg Kinnear, John Goodman, Annette Bening and many other notable actors. Can't understand how this movie ended up with such a low rating.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

mixing genres here with mixed results.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

what kind of alien uses a toilet as transportation? must be the ones who are doing the anal probing. Ben Kingsley reminds me of my loony chemistry prof. from college. Obsessed with getting prostate cancer, always wore black with a sliver Egyptian ankh and a shaved head.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

This movie revolves around an emotionally devoid race of alien beings represented by Gary Shandling that are in appearance identical to humans except for the fact that they have humming penises. Starring Annette Benning and Ben Kinglsey. Yes, I am serious. Annette Benning and Ben Kingley. This movie exists.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Synopsis

Harold is sent to Earth on a mission to impregnate a woman and have a child. Harold befriends Perry Gordon, a horny, morally challenged specimen of the human male, and together they scope Phoenix for women. On the prowl for the ideal woman with whom he can mate, the alien encounters a wide spectrum of potential candidates.

Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Neil A. Machlis, Mike Nichols, Garry Shandling
Screenwriter: Garry Shandling, Michael Leeson, Garry Shandling, Michael Leeson, Ed Solomon, Peter Tolan
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, What Planet Are You From? Productions, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
Rating: R (Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 3, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.3M
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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