In an unrelated subplot that never quite went anywhere, Julie Brown's character fell for Jim Carrey's alien. Guess what? Geena eventually falls in love with Captain Jeff. With their ship down for repairs the boys will have to stay with Geena and, doing her part for interplanetary relations, takes them to her ditzy manicurist cohort Candy (Julie Brown, who also helped write the film) to give the guys make overs so they can pass for Earthlings. Furry aliens Jeff, Jim and Damon crash land in Geena's pool the day after Geena discovers how unfaithful Ted's been and the sight of them understandably throws her for a loop. Anyway, in this their third and final film together, Geena plays a beautiful but romantically unhappy manicurist Valley Girl who's doctor boyfriend Ted is cheating on her and Jeff plays the blue furred ringleader of three furry aliens, the other two being yellow furred Damon Wayans and pre-movie stardom red furred Jim Carrey (with his hair dyed blond!). Well, for what it's worth this is a hell of a lot more fun to watch than most celebrity couple films. ![]() ![]() I've often theorized that the reason celebrity couples do films together is because it gives them a chance to spend time together and work together (seeing as how the hectic Hollywood schedule tends to keep people apart for long periods of time) and because studios can cash in on the respective fan bases of both stars. Then after boldly going where no Hollywood couple had ever gone before in said remake of "The Fly", they returned to light hearted comedy with our film here "Earth Girls Are Easy". The 2nd one they did and also the only serious one was the 1986 remake of "The Fly", in which Jeff played a good natured but lonely mad scientist who turned into a giant fly monster (that looked nothing like a fly and something more like a killer praying mantis) and Geena played his journalist lover. and Geena played a sex starved nymph who was convinced she was a vampire. The first film, also the film where they met, was the horror movie spoof "Transylvania 6-5000" (which I keep looking for but can't seem to find), in which Jeff played a reporter sent to Transylvania to follow a story with partner Ed Begley Jr. Earth Girls Are Easy is in every way a relic of the late '80s, from the MI DIed sequencers underpinning almost all the songs to Davis and Brown's hairstyles in the booklet photos, but approached in the right frame of mind, it's definitely got its charms.Former real life Hollywood couple Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis made 3 films together, two of them comedies, one of them serious. "Brand New Girl," though a weaker song, proves that Brown actually has a fine voice - better than a lot of her contemporaries, in fact - and might have had a career even without her daffy sense of humor. ![]() The title track, remade by producer Nile Rodgers under the pseudonym the N, and "Cause I'm a Blonde" are superior remakes of great songs from her first EP, 1985's Goddess in Progress. (Royalty's "Baby Gonna Shake," written and produced by Madonna's ex, Stephen Bray, sounds like a reject from the Material Girl's first album.) However, it's the three Brown-composed songs that are the heart of the disc. Daryl Hall and John Oates do a fine version of the Philly soul classic "Love Train" and session singer Jill Jones' reading of Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly's "The Ground You Walk On" is one of that songwriting team's better ballads. ![]() Although a couple of the tracks feel like leftovers added to the disc because someone at Sire/Reprise thought the bands could stand the soundtrack exposure (there's no other excuse for the Information Society's moronically repetitive "Hit Me" or Depeche Mode's pointless cover of Bobby Troup's "Route 66"), there's a handful of solid commercial pop songs to be found. Julie Brown's 1989 film Earth Girls Are Easy, starring the flirty singer/comedian, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and a pre-stardom Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, is a likable although slight bit of pop fluff, a description that applies to the soundtrack as well.
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