Synopsis
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.
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Cast
- Christopher LloydUncle Martin
- Jeff DanielsTim O'Hara
- Elizabeth HurleyBrace Channing
- Daryl HannahLizzie
- Wallace ShawnColeye
- Christine EbersoleMrs. Brown
- Michael LernerMr. Channing
- Ray WalstonArmitan
- Shelley MalilFelix
- Jeremy HotzBilly
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
The movie is pretty much what you might expect from a big-screen adaptation of a once-popular '60s TV series: good-natured, appealing, and sophomoric. - 60
The New York Times
Travel from Mars to Earth is an amazing feat, but not much more remarkable than reviving a sitcom that had been dead for a third of a century. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
My Favorite Martian is slapstick and silliness, wild sight gags and a hyped-up acting style. The Marx Brothers would have been at home here. The movie is clever in its visuals, labored in its audios, and noisy enough to entertain kids. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
An intermittently pleasing children's film. - 40
Variety
Martian is loud, busy and altogether pointless. Worse, it’s simply not as engaging as the show that inspired it. - 40
Time Out
Dire Disney effort, with competent sfx, inspired by the '60s TV series. - 38
The Associated Press
The biggest problem of My Favorite Martian: It lacks an edge. Its promising approach - sort of a Three Stooges meets Close Encounters - never gets off the ground. It tries to bite occasionally, but is so concerned with remaining a kid-friendly movie that it keeps sinking into pablum. [11 Feb 1999] - 38
Boston Globe
Even the presence of Walston himself, as the government heavy in charge of tracking Lloyd's zany Martian, does little to alter the inescapable conclusion that this My Favorite Martian reincarnation is more likely to find favor with the undemanding than the nostalgia-minded. [12 Feb 1999, p.E5]
