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WRITER: TOM DAVIS, DAN AYKROYD, BONNIE TURNER, TERRY TURNER...
There were suspicions of bottom trawling when Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels chose to follow up last year's hit movie Wayne's World with a new stretching of an SNL sketch. The Coneheads, with Dan Aykroyd as Beldar and Jane Curtin as his wife Prymaat, were amusing enough in 11 skits when the show was young and flush, but could they sustain a feature film 15 years and many * zeitgeists later? Affirmative. The movie is funny and sweet -- a vision of genially warped family harmony...
...Aykroyd's wonderfully fretful smile. It expresses worlds of ambiguities: anextraterrestrial's frustration at Earth mores, a doting parent's concern for his ripening daughter, a gentleman's willingness to be the sweet butt of jokes (and, in a funny shower scene, the butt of butt jokes). His mottos might be, Live and let live; Grin and bare...
...Coneheads," the new Dan Aykroyd-Jane Curtin comedy about pointy-headed aliens who immigrate to Earth, is, as its main characters would say, a celluloid presentation with only one amusement unit...
Fortunately, that joke--the aliens vs. American culture thing--works. Aykroyd is Beldar and Curtin his wife Prymaat. They hail from Remulak, a planet many zerls away (that's 2.17 light years) which rotates around the Black Hole (the center of its binary system...