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JUICE HEADS Daniels, clubbing Lloyd, provides the film's only electricity

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Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance; With: Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley and Christopher Lloyd
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

The big innovation is that Uncle Martin (Christopher Lloyd), the quizzical alien with the '50s TV antennas popping out of his head, has been given an anthropomorphic silver space suit -- a dancing, prancing, horny polymer uniform that carries on like Jim Carrey in ''The Mask.'' The big drag is that the suit completely outshines Martin. In this glorified special-effects demo reel based on the singularly daft '60s sitcom (what's next -- ''Petticoat Junction''?), Lloyd, when not spouting hyperkinetic scientific gibberish, makes scoops of ice cream fly around the room, guzzles the contents of a lava lamp, and literally falls apart into head and rascally limbs, as his earthly caretaker (Jeff Daniels) gawks in dismay. ''Flubber'' was more edifying -- and more fun.


Posted Feb 12, 1999
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