Synopsis
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
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Cast
- Dan AykroydBeldar Conehead
- Jane CurtinPrymatt Conehead
- Michelle BurkeConnie Conehead
- SinbadOtto
- Phil HartmanMarlax
- Adam SandlerCarmine
- Chris FarleyRonnie the Mechanic
- Eddie GriffinCustomer
- Michael RichardsMotel Clerk
- David SpadeEli Turnbull, INS Agent
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
A sweet, funny anarchic pastiche that should find broad based popularity. Its sly combination of the outrageous and the mundane is a surprisingly appealing screen entertainment that transcends the one-joke territory it inhabited on television. - 70
Los Angeles Times
You can't beat this film for demented heart-tugs though. When Prymaat looks at a big pile of cone-like eggplants in the supermarket and lets out a momentary shriek of horror, you know you're watching nutbrain perfection. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
As a big-screen comedy, Coneheads isn’t all that funny either, yet it’s blithe and inventive and surprisingly light on its feet. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Far better than advance word had it, Coneheads makes last year's Wayne's World film seem tame by comparison. And yes, Garrett Morris is in it, too. - 63
Baltimore Sun
Occasionally quite amusing, it just doesn't build. - 60
Washington Post
It's very funny in places, even sort of tender. But let's not get out of hand. - 50
The New York Times
Coneheads falls flat about as often as it turns funny, and displays more amiability than style. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
CONEHEADS represents a prime example of opportunistic commercial filmmaking, with plot and character sacrificed to an endless series of comic ideas that are never developed.
