Coneheads (DVD)

Coneheads has to be one of the strangest films I have ever seen and I think by the name you can see that! The film is a comedy and I really did find the whole film in general to be very funny. I really did like the storyline and concept of the film also because I felt that it was something different. The film features Robert Knott and Jonathan Penner who really are exceptional throughout the film and they were great fun to watch. The film is most certainly something different and I really think it would be a popular film. The comedy is sustianed throughout the film however, and so it could definately be improved. I did find the overall production quality to be very good ...  Read the complete review

Coneheads was an adaptation of a series of sketches that Dan Aykroyd wrote for Saturday Night Live. He performed them on the Show with Jane Curtin. They were fairly amusing in their original form, so why doesn't this film work? After all, Dan Aykroyd has written "Ghostbusters" and "The Blues Brothers" (also a Sat Night Live adaptation) so he can certainly write comedy. What I think went wrong was basically TIME. Too much time has passed between the Saturday Night Live days (late 70's/early 80's) and this film 1993. Dan has moved on as a writer and performer. he has aged, his sense of humour has changed and developed, and ...  Read the complete review

It's been a fair old while since I last saw this movie but it's still pretty darn good. Dan Ackroyd & Jane Curtin, both great alumni of Saturday Night Live bring to the big screen this version of Coneheads. 2 aliens who came to earth to conquer the planet, crash-land and then get stuck and have to adapt until rescue arrives. And the fun ensues. It's a pretty heavy name cast including very brief appearances from Adam Sandler (selling fake id), Drew Carey (as a cab customer), Ellen Degeneres, Phil Hartman and a few others who I no doubt missed. You also get Dan's brother Peter (playing another Conehead) and his daughter Danielle playing 3yo Connie proving ...  Read the complete review

Dreadful.Apalling.A travesty. I could go on but it would take me too long to think of enough words of this ilk to adequately describe this film. Once agian this was a film I stayed up far too late watching and again regretted it. It just wasn't funny. The voices of the aliens annoy not amuse and people didn't comment on the fact that they were alien. This would be fine but you'd expect this to be where the comedy came and as it couldn't you'd expect it from elsewhere but again it didn't come. I can't remember one decent joke in the whole film and I doubt anyone else can either. ...  Read the complete review

Every time you hear the word, CONEHEADS, you seem to wonder. What is it about? What is it's potential? Well here you have it, one of the best films of 1993 is CONEHEADS! The introduction of aliens to earth has been a mighty genre for some, and Coneheads is one example. It surpasses most elements in humour and hilariaty. It involves secret alien rituals (like their sort of sex) and how the stroy develops and what happens. We see these 'newcomers' adapt to human life in every sense of the word, without blasting them to bits or exzamining areas such as their genitals. Before GM was Coneheads, an extremely hilarious film with superb ...  Read the complete review