![]() The camera consumes the three aliens-once they’re shaved and waxed (double hehe), they become sleek and sexy, female fantasies fallen from the sky. Right.” During the dance club scene, Wiploc and Zeebo run through a gamut of women, but their uninhibited sexuality is about satisfying everyone’s lusts, not just their own, performing for the girls far more than the girls perform for them. Mac taps into that with Val ( hehe) and takes his cues from Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor, playing piano for her as she explains to him the meaning of the phrase “Mr. Their primary weapon is a “love touch,” a version of the Vulcan death grip that makes anyone they touch reveal their deepest romantic fantasies. ![]() In fact, the aliens spread orgasmic energy wherever they go. They take one look at her and think she’s a babe. ![]() But if Ted doesn’t get it, the aliens sure do. So by the time the aliens turn up, this film has been totally focalized through Val and how much men have failed her. As Candy says, Val needs to get laid: “You spend all your time taking care of Ted, but who’s taking care of you?” Even her attempts to become a magazine image are couched in terms of her sexual needs-maybe if she looks the part, Ted will satisfy her. When Ted turns out to be philandering, Val sings “Worship the Ground You Walk On” (an 80s power ballad) while destroying all his stuff in increasingly bizarre and satisfying ways. Ted and is made over by Candy to the tune of “Brand New Girl,” a Madonna-esque satire/celebration of makeup and blow-dryers. But before that, we see Val’s rather unhappy love life as she begs for affection from Dr. The aliens wind up in Val’s pool because they’re cruising the galaxy for chicks (well, Wiploc and Zeebo are Mac is a bit more mature). The movie turns on sex, but it ends up celebrating female desire far more than the title suggests. And Goldblum, probably the most subdued of the group, spends most of his time gazing at her in rapture. Davis is a deliriously befuddled leading lady, playing Val with sweet stupidity that is part of the film’s constant charm. Meanwhile, Julie Brown’s performance and songs act as a Greek chorus for the film, both satirizing vanity and superficiality and celebrating makeup, hair color, and female libido. The aliens are masters of mimicry (they learn English from clicking through TV stations) and that’s developed across the film, culminating in a dance club scene that has Wiploc and Zeebo finally finding the smoking hot chicks they’ve been looking for. Carrey and Wayans are two years off from In Living Color, and here they’re a delightful tag team of innocence and adolescent sexual energy. It also has its tongue heavily embedded in its cheek, and showcases the not-inconsiderable comedic talents of a group of actors who were only just starting to rise. Yes, I did first see this film as an adolescent girl, when my heart beat only for Goldblum, and yes, it is a piece of weirdness that could only be made in the 1980s. It has been years since I sat down and watched Earth Girls Are Easy, and I did not realize that it was such a delightfully subversive pleasure. There’s Jeff Goldblum emerging shirtless from a full body wax. Val begins to fall for Mac, who resolutely refuses to put a shirt on, while his buddies run rampant in the Valley. And what do the aliens want? Girls, of course! Rather than running off to the authorities, Valerie calls up her pool boy Woody (Michael McKean) to dry out the spaceship, and takes the aliens along to the hair salon, where Candy helps her to make them more presentable to the world of 1980s California. The day after tossing Ted out, Val is sunbathing when a massive spaceship crash-lands in her pool, disclosing three furry aliens: Mac (Jeff Goldblum), Wiploc (Jim Carrey), and Zeebo (Damon Wayans). Ted Gallagher (Charles Rocket), a navel-gazing loser who cheats on her and can’t please her sexually. ![]() Valerie (Geena Davis) is a Valley girl working as a manicurist in her friend Candy’s (Julie Brown) hair salon “Curl Up & Dye.” Val is engaged to Dr. Earth Girls Are Easy is actually, kind of…amazing. It has to be bad.” But, apparently, my adolescent self had better taste than I thought. I thought, “Hey, this is a movie from the 1980s about fuzzy space aliens who come to bang their way through the Valley. First, a confession: when I proposed Earth Girls are Easy for this column, I kind of cheated, though not deliberately.
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