My Stepmother Is an Alien Movie Review

Eccentric physicist Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd) sends a beam out to a galaxy far, far away and gets a visit from the beautiful and sexy (although from some angles she does look like Mick Jagger) Celeste (Kim Basinger). Fortunately for the plot, and the ensuing slapstick comedy, this gorgeous blonde is an alien with a mission: seduce the recently widowed Steve and get the details of his experiments which could save her planet. Despite her rather odd (and sometimes funny) habits, romance commences, love and marriage follow. Celeste's fellow alien on the mission comes off as a living Felix-the-Cattish bag and supplies some great comic moments – the kissing scene is a classic. Jon Lovitz is fun as the pervert-playboy brother. Fast forward through the Durante imitations. Otherwise it's good fluff.

1988 (PG-13) 108m/C Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green, Wesley Mann, Adrian Sparks, Juliette Lewis, Tanya Fenmore; D: Richard Benjamin; W: Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, Jonathan Reynolds; M: Alan Silvestri. VHS, Beta, LV COL