Word: prymaat
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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...
...mission to conquer Earth, a spaceship from Remulak crash-lands in Manhattan's East River. So the Coneheads must make do in the land of the Bluntskulls. They make better than do. Despite their three rows of teeth and their tendency to use condoms as chewing gum, Beldar and Prymaat and their earthborn daughter Connie (Michelle Burke) adapt splendidly to New Jersey suburban life. For this is the Conehead version of that familiar Hollywood fable, the grelbon out of pluvarb (bird out of water -- there are no fish on Remulak...
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...
Belder and Prymaat are well on their way to a conquest of the bluntheads that inhabit Earth when they crash-land in New York harbor. The Conehead command back on Remulak is upset that they have damaged their space vehicle, so they are forced to fit in with Earthlings while they wait for relief. The wait could last many years. Beldar quickly realizes they are scrabnord (screwed...
Besides the Sandler scene, the movie has two outstanding humorous metaphors...er, comedic moments. One is a home movie sequence during which we see Beldar and Prymaat's precious "young one," Connie, reach maturity. There are all the obligatory black-and-white clips of the typical American young family, with a twist. Beldar, like any proud father, is seen tossing his baby into the air. He just throws her 40 or 50 feet higher than most dads would...
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