Product Details

• Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn
• Directors: Donald Petrie
• Writers: Deanna Oliver, John L. Greene, Sherri Stoner
• Producers: Barry Bernardi, Daryl Kass, Jerry Leider, Marc Toberoff
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0788816462
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,247 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "My Favorite Martian" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Tired but watchable adaptation of the popular '60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. Like Disney's other live-action remakes 101 Dalmatians and Flubber, the emphasis is on quick-moving scenes and special effects--not character. Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. Much of the film feels like a retread borrowing heavily from other sci-fi comedies (and "fish out of water" films), including Lloyd's own Back to the Future. Lloyd and his talking space suit (voiced by Wayne Knight who brings the same personality as his Newman role on Seinfeld) don't know simple Earth customs but inexplicably know every pop culture reference in the last 10 years. Daryl Hannah and Elizabeth Hurley are along for the ride as Daniels's good-girl and bad-girl flames. TV's Martian, Ray Waltson, shows up as a secret agent alien hunter--and pours more emotion into his scenes than the rest of the movie combined. Ages 6 and up. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Miss this Martian, February 2, 2007

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Bennet Pomerantz "Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD" (College Park, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Favorite Martian (DVD)

I like Christopher Lloyd. From Star Trek three's Kruge to Taxi's Reverend Jim. The man is a great character actor. I like the classic Martian show

However, this movie version is for the birds. It seems to recycle old ALF plots rather than cover any new ground.

Jeff Daniels and a pre "Kill Bill" Daryl Hannah is wasted in this remake.

I wont subject you to the worst stuff this film offers like a talking space suit with a mind of its own.

The cameo by the original martian, Ray Walston is cute, but worthless in this drek

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I Nearly Cried, November 19, 2005

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Seeker (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Martian [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Now I understand what Don Maclean is trying to say.
'My Favorite Martian' was one of my favorite shows as a child. I looked forward to seeing how the movies would render it: but I must say I was sadly disappointed. This is a violent, over the top mess. The grotesque Christopher Lloyd has no charm as the Martian and Daryl Hannah needs to be in a slasher film to play out her twisted sensibilites. I do not know what the director was thinking about. Is everyone in Hollywood on some kind of mind zapping stimulant?
This is supposed to be family entertainment? It has been appropriated by the dark side.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as I remembered it to be..., December 7, 2004

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TerryT (OK, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Martian (DVD)

In fact, far from it! I don't know why I didn't enjoy this when I saw it for the first time. It's actually a funny, enjoyable movie--clever and amusing, with great acting and special effects/animation. Being unfamiliar with the original series, I can only go by this movie, which I now heartily recommend. It's a lighthearted comedy. Any fault to be found with it--perhaps not the most defined plotline?--would be ascribed to the writers, and no others. As far as live action Disney goes, this is one of the better ones.