Glimmerubro
It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Lela
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Predrag
"My Stepmother Is an Alien" is an American comedy, science fiction, romance movie that was filmed in three locations in California. "My Stepmother Is an Alien" tells the story of an eccentric physicist (Aykroyd) who harnesses the power of lightning to send a beam to another galaxy. The response is a visit to Earth by a spaceship bearing Basinger as an alien who takes human form but never gets it quite right. She materializes on the beach, saunters into a party being given by Aykroyd's brother and starts to nibble on the cigarette butts. Aykroyd falls in love with her - not because she looks sexy, but because she makes him laugh. There are lots of misunderstandings and sight gages. However the Alien learns of love and people (including Jimmy Durante). This movie is just too jam - packed with fun to describe. The plot about an Alien living in disguise on Earth, getting used to the strange ways of the humans, who do not suspect the deadly peril they face from Outer Space, is not meant to be taken too seriously. It was a movie with a fun story, great actors and it kept you laughing and waiting to find out what was going to happen next. I think it's great for anyone to watch it especially if you like Kim Basinger, such a different part for her, yet she did a great job. It has no blood or guts dripping all over the place, and sexual content insinuated but not shown like in other movies of today. It is a comedy as it is in that genre.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.
Leofwine_draca
MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN is one of those films with a great title but little in the way of a real plot to go with it. It's a typical lame '80s comedy in which a bunch of dated aliens beam down on Earth and one of them adopts the rather unlikely form of Kim Basinger in order to infiltrate mankind's society. What follows is an endless barrage of dated jokes, unfunny jokes, and just plain weirdness.I'll admit from the outset to not being a fan of Basinger, although she's well cast as an alien character here; there's always been something a bit weird about her, after all. Dan Aykroyd is stuck in the 'everyman hero' type role and can do little with it, although there's novelty value that arises from seeing future stars like Alyson Hannigan, Seth Green, and Juliette Lewis when they were but children.The special effects in the film have dated, not to mention the fashions and hairstyles, and overall it only raised a few chuckles along the way. Overall I think the '80s wave of alien comedies (such as MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE and EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY) was a disappointing one, an assembly of movies that did little to progress either the sci-fi or comedy genres in any way.
Dalbert Pringle
Well, darlings - Here we go again - Kim Basinger plays Celeste Martin, the "dumbest-bimbo-of-an-alien" to ever set foot on the face of this goddamn planet.This so-called Sci-Fi/Romance/Comedy was obviously geared to totally capitalize on Basinger's chilling facade of beauty. And at every opportunity it did just that.You know, I, for one, am sure relieved that this flick didn't try to capitalize on Basinger's brains - 'Cause if that were the case we'd all really be in for the scare of a lifetime.Celeste's ridiculous mission here on Earth is to find the means to reverse the effects of a ray that was sent from our planet to hers, which has drastically altered the gravity situation there.Unfortunately, the idiot creator of this ray, scientist, Steven Mills (played by that big, fat, lard-assed, doofus, Dan Aykroyd) doesn't even know how the hell to re-create it. Thinking Mills to be a total liar, Celeste, naturally, resorts to (what else?, but) sexual seduction and (get this) the promise of marriage to get Mills to cough up the secret.Like, talk about low-brow comedy at its all-time lowest. There wasn't a single, solitary funny, or worthwhile joke in this entire film.You know, I had always thought that beings from other worlds would be of a far superior intelligence to that of human beings. But this flick proves this assumption to be utterly erroneous - Especially when you've got the likes of that bimbo-brained Basinger at the helm, as a space traveler.
chow913
This is the type of film one just looks forward to hating.I remember when I saw the original trailer in theaters. I almost walked out before the actual feature had even started.Everything from the premise to the acting to the dialogue is so bad it's good.It's still unclear if the film makers were intending to make something this ridiculous or if they lost be bet and were seriously attempting to make real movie and did everything wrong and just accidentally got it right.This is truly either a work of genius or utter stupidity. But it surprisingly works.The entire story takes place within only 48 hours. As the title states the plot revolves around an everyman widower scientist Dan Aykroyd whose bizarre experiments accidentally send a devastating death ray to a super intelligent aliens race in another galaxy.Kim Basinger quickly arrives as a femme fatal alien agent sent to reverse the ray. Hence most of the jokes revolve around Basinger's alieness such as drinking battery acid out of cars and reading books by touching them, as well as her super powers such sending people literally flying away, and of course her complete lack of understanding of human culture, mainly her lack of understanding sexual innuendos.It's as if 'My Favorite Martian' was a blonde bombshell.Basinger's sidekick, her sassy alien super powered handbag is actually a major star of the film as it provides many of the jokes.The speed of the plot itself set much of the slapstick tone. Aykroyd and Basinger marry within 12 hours! It's because the plot cannot be taken seriously that so many of the gags work. A few examples: When as security guard asks Basinger for some ID, her bag prints out a gun belt of 30 IDs each with the same photo of her present hair and clothing.When she goes grocery shopping at 3:00am she attempts to pay with a softball sized diamond, then a $5,000 bill. When the cashier asks her for something smaller she predictably produces a smaller $5,000 bill.When she asks her bag to describe "sex," well you can pretty much guess what it punches out.When Aykroyd's boss catches her snooping around his lab she sends him literally flying all the way back to his car. He's in such shock he say, "Yes, yes, on my way home. Must get home." As I said, these gags shouldn't logically work but they do.A few of the father daughter scenes are downright creepy. Even creepier than the scenes in 'Poltergeist' when the parents smoke pot around their kids and Craig T. Nelson later reveals his wife is 32 and their daughter is 16.Aykroyd brags to his daughter, a young Willow from 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' about his scoring with Basinger, more than one to which she is happy for him. Creepy! This film also enjoys some cult status due to its early performances by very young Juliet Lewis and Seth Green.As it was said about 'The Naked Gun,' no one over the age of seven can possibly enjoy it. The same is true here. Just embrace how dumb this movie is and it really is a lot of fun.
