MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN (1988) Review : Awfully Good Movies
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2024
- Now that GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE has finally hit theaters and reunited the surviving Busters, Awfully Good Movies is celebrating with Dan Aykroyd’s less successful paranormal comedy of the 80s, MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN!
With Aykroyd being a real life enthusiast of ghosts and aliens, he was the perfect choice to play a widowed astrophysicist who finds both alien life and a new lover when his signal to space attracts a sexy alien played by Kim Basinger at the peak of her hotness, who must marry the doctor to gain his help in saving her dying planet. But with this movie originally written as a dark sci-fi allegory for child abuse by a guy who claimed to have actually encountered a child abusing alien-not even kidding, folks-things are bound to get real weird even without Aykroyd throwing any diaper wearing baby-men into the script.
Basinger’s got a penis shaped alien puppet sidekick who hides inside her purse and teaches her how to seduce the earthling through porn magazines and outdated pop culture catchphrases; Aykroyd’s daughter (a pre-teen Alyson Hannigan) is hellbent on getting her dad laid again before she goes off to band camp; and Aykroyd’s sleazeball brother, played by his fellow SNL alumni Jon Lovitz, secretly wants Basinger all for himself. And did I forget to mention the voice cameo from Harry Shearer as Carl Sagan? It may make for a very hackneyed and confusing comedy, but it sure is an awfully good one whose synth pop soundtrack and cameos from a pre-stardom Seth Green and Juliette Lewis will bring back fond memories of the 80s.
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I remember watching this movie as a little kid, and realizing I would always have a crush on Kim Bassinger
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@@archimmes Even in her 60s, she could still be incredibly sexy. Back in about 2014, she did this little Danish film called The 11th Hour (or I Am Here, depending on what country you live in). There's this scene about 15 minutes in, where Kim Basinger just randomly pulls out one of her breasts and squeezes it until all of the milk comes out. And the camera just focuses on her hard nipple the entire time. When taken out of context (in the movie, she plays a woman who has just suffered a miscarriage and desperately wants a child), it's easy to consider this a movie where you just want to watch it for the gratuitous "fan service".
I think everyone who saw that movie was the same.
me too dude. one of my first crushes
Had Hollywood made a live-action Barbie movie in the '80s or early '90s, instead of now with Margot Robbie, then I think that Kim Basinger would've been perfect. Kim Basinger was arguably the Margot Robbie of her heyday in that she was Hollywood's go-to actress for a blonde bombshell and soft variation of a femme fatale. It's just like that if Cool World was made to day, Margot Robbie is the person who I would first envision as Holli Would.
Alison Hannigan was 13 in 88…she was still in high school in American Pie in 99 at 24. How many years was she held back?
I just learned a few days ago that both her and Elizabeth Shannon where 5 and 6 years older than Jason Biggs 😂
Kim Bassinger back in the day.. smoking hot.... up there with 80's Kim Cattral from Porky's and Police Academy, Kelly LeBrock (sp?), Weird Science, and Mia Sara, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemount High. Dan Aykroyd basically is Ghostbusters-like character with a kid.
Weirdly, Kim Basinger's best performance. _My Stepmother Is An Alien_ is a great double feature with the "ahead of it's time live action _Futurama_ movie" _Mom & Dad Save The World._
Well that and the Tom Petty video where she plays a corpse!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot Jon Lovitz was the villain in that. Amazing, of course. I definitely want to do that one, and I'll take it easy on the Jeffrey Jones jokes. Not on Jeffrey Jones though, fuck that guy.
Nicely put! =)
@@JeonardShadby505 I on the other hand forgot Jon Lovitz was in this film.
I saw it, when I was 8. I loved the movie 🎥 and I am in love with Kim Baisinger ever since 🥰
I just posted the same comment in different words, I think all of us where in love with Kim Basinger 🤣
My all-time favourite movie from my childhood.
I don't think it's fair to compare it to serious movies. After all, it's a kid's movie with risque scenes, typical of the 80s.
oh, dear. i'm sorry for your terrible childhood... my condolences.
Where Cool World ends My Stepmother is an Alien begins. It's like Kim Bassenger is the same in both films opposite a guy that would do anything for her.
This movie is SO brilliantly bizarre!! 👏 A true 80's classic! 😆 😀
Somehow this is a lot less bizarre than "Stepsister from Planet Weird" which involed Alien Bubble people... (I wish I was making that up.)
The kissing scene was my favorite part of the movie. It was so ridiculous and it just kept going.
Hey she survived this and Alec Baldwin,nothing she can't survive.
Yes the Coneheads the movie is severely underrated. I like whenever back on their planet and he has a fight that monster and the guy that went before him said that he had study the monster's moves and he was ready for it. And then I can we was like yep and let me know when Elvis gets here.
Narful the garfalg .
Yeeesss narfuling
Is there a series on Jo Blo it can be reviewed on?
Don't ask but as a kid an uncle of mine had rented 9 1/2 Weeks and that was my first exposure to the gorgeous Kim Basinger and her sexy dance here to Pump Up The Volume was very enticing to my young mind and I was shocked to see her next movie would be Batman '89.
I'm glad you pointed out this movie's virtues; yes, it's dated, but still has charm, and always be a secret favorite of mine! Also, thanks for defending 'Coneheads' too! I'VE been defending that one since I was a kid! =)
I agree. Underrated gem.
My stepmother would be in for a close encounter if she look like that.
Loved watching these movies back in the early 90s. Splash, Burbs, My Girl, Home Alone, Problem Child, Mom and Dad Save the World, Skin Deep, Adventures in Babysitting, Stay Tuned, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Wayne's World, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, Police Academy, Gremlins, Big, Vice Versa...
I think Kim basinger was my first Hollywood crush after seeing this movie! I was probably in the 4th or 5th grade
Love this movie from my childhood, first watched watched it as a little kid in the late 80's/early 90's which my dad rented from the video store, it's getting a Blu-ray release for the first time by Arrow Video which I'm definitely buying.
Hey guys what about:
"WTF Happened to KIM BASINGER"?
I think that where it began to go all went wrong for Kim Basinger was when she hooked up with Alec Baldwin and got sued into bankruptcy at the start of the '90s. Not only that, but Kim started gaining a reputation for being a diva with her antics on the set of The Marrying Man with Baldwin and Ralph Bakshi's Cool World. Plus, other than Batman and LA Confidential, many of her movies post-1988 didn't do very well at the box office and/or with critics. And by the start of the new millennium, she was simply aging out of the "sex kitten" image that earned her most of her success. She simply wasn't even with an Oscar to call for, really that strong of an actress to transcend that stigma.
@@TMC1982Part2 she was in 8 mile with Eminem, Cellular with Jason Statham, The sentinel with Michael Douglas, all great movies, also I actually liked Getaway from 1994 and The real Mccoy with Val kilmer in 1993, two fun movies. He still has some movies in the 2000s, after the 80s and early 90s.....but not many in the 2010s, only a little part in The nice guys in 2016
@@Locadel2003 Plus, Kim has had numerous mental health struggles such as her lifelong battle with agoraphobia. That also naturally, had to have limited the roles that she could take in her career.
This was a weird movie. I was like 6 when i saw it (80s was a different time). It's got one of those special places in my heart.
I love Nothing but Trouble. It's a weird little oddity that's like gross out horror/comedy.
My goodness, what a blast from the past. I'm wasn't all that excited about seeing this video until I heard Tony Jay's voice. It brought back so many wonderful memories. Of course I'm talking about legacy of kain. I did not expect a comedy to remind me of a tragedy. Rip Tony
God I love these breakdowns of movies....insightful and hilarious. Great work!
Wasn't there a running joke in this movie about sneezing?
Coneheads is a classic. Kim Bassinger and her spaceship crew..beam me up.
that mad man Tom Jones at 80 is still killing on A(ustralia)GT. not just judging, but he's sung live more than once. usually spontaneous. he looks 60 and sounds like he's 30 when he sings.
Tom Jones is a legit legend
@@JoBloOriginals and it's quite likely you're becoming a YT legend.
Jericho after watching this movie would say "Nobody will ever, evvvverrrr be the same again".
After telling me about the Ann Prentiss thing, I looked it up. Damn, this movie got a little bit darker than I thought.
Always a pleasure, Jesse.
Love the MST3000 reference . TomServo!
I'm surprised this video review didn't do a loving memory tribute of Peter Aykroyd since he passed away this weekend.
I always loved when the lady in the station wagon that hits the daughter at the end just peaces out like nothing happened.
I'm glad the aliens are humanoid
8:19 that made me laugh so hard 😂
I can’t stop replying this
Finally, the Aykroyd-verse saga gets covered again...all is missing is Loose Cannons, Exit to Eden, Neighbors, and Doctor Detroit, now that this movie and Nothing But Trouble have joined the other Aykroyd movies that aren't Ghostbusters to the collection of Aykroyd blu-ray, it is only a matter of time until the collection is complete. I am jealous of Aykroyd in his movies sometimes and in general, he gets donna in real life and also gets women like Jamie Lee Curtis and Kim Bassinger. I am sure everyone knows that if aliens did exist and did come here they'd know Aykroyd, they'd recognize Beldar anyway (Coneheads is coincidentally Dan's favorite out of all the movies he has made), besides he already has met mork i.e the late robin williams.
I remember this blog called "LeBeau's le Blog" when looking back on Kim Basinger's career, described My Stepmother Is an Alien as one of those weird ideas that only Dan Aykroyd really seems to think is funny.
@@TMC1982Part2 Aykroyd would obviously totally like the idea of having a monster girlfriend that's for sure.
'The research was all wrong, the food was all wrong, this dress is strange and what is this thing? this hat is too big and everything I said was crazy!'
You referenced MST3K Overdrawn at the Memory Bank during your review of this movie.
I will now like and subscribe.
The title of this movie sounds like somethig I won't google unless I'm in incognito mode.
I forgot about this. Probably saw it twice. I recall enjoying it
Another Kim Basinger movie that you could do for "Awfully Good Movies" is Bless the Child, which was one of her first follow-ups to her Academy Award winning performance in LA Confidential. The movie is like an unintentional camp comedy classic.
My Step-mother is an Alien: the original Species.
How and why isn't Dan Aykroyd the upgraded Art Bell?
@Gwyn and Gold
That, plus his intense enthusiasms for ufo lore and the paranormal.
Near the beginning of the movie, the kid makes herself some pop tarts, and covered them in jelly, and syrup.
This has stuck in my mind of over 30 years.
I've not seen this film in years so I'm looking forward to the upcoming Arrow films blu ray release next month 👍
I got this crap on VHS as a gift when I was a kid. Hated it.
I find it so weird that everyone is pretending this kid film it a logical follow up to the original anarchic comedy. Was it because everyone hated the remake so much everyone had to double down and like it regardless. Not being able to admit that Teen Ghostbusters isn't sequel anyone really wanted. The film might be good in and of itself. I'm not hating on it, I just find it an odd choice. It seems more like a safe Spielberg film rather than anything birthed from the edgy original.
For some reason, CBS was REALLY fond of airing this movie.
Right off the bat with the unnecessary hot takes that literally didn't need to be done. Finally gave me the push I needed to find something better to waste my morning commute on.
The Amber Heard cough lol 😆 so true.
Kim Basinger was the hottest woman of the 80s imo.
Kim Basinger = Great Woman.
It's crazy finding out movies you grew up with completely failed in the box office!... God Kim Basinger sexy as hell in this movie!
Well I actually liked it back then, I was only 17 ;-)
Sometimes, I like to Fill UP my Bathtub with Milk, lay in the Fetal Position and pretend that I'm a Cheerio....
T-R-A-S-H!! That's exactly what this film is. It's only list if TOP TEN WOSRT MOVIES EVER. It doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy or a horror film or sci-ficition. If it's a comedy how is putting a frightened child on a ceiling and taking a dog's bark away funny? If it's a horror movie why are Kim Basinger and Dan Ackroyd in it? Seriously, the scene that upsets me most is when she(alyson Hannigan) tries to convice a stuck-up Dan Ackroyd that his wife is a alien and he doesn't believe her. Dan Ackroyd, a gifted writer who gave us such classics like Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters looked at this crappy script and thought it was gold? Dick Benjaimain is obviosuly a crackhead if he thinks this is funny.
I wouldn't necessarily give sole credit to Dan Aykroyd for Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters. It has been said that Dan's original concepts for those movies were vastly different than what we got in the finished product. They were basically, much more bloated and trippy. In the case of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, the director liked his basic idea but told him that the movie that he originally wanted to make (a more overtly-sci-fi story about the Ghostbusters being able to travel through multi-dimensions while in SWAT-team like outfits) would've cost at least $300 million in 1983-84 money.
Dan Aykroyd kind of strikes me as a George Lucas or Tim Burton (at least concerning Batman Returns), where he's a great idea person, an excellent world builder, and has a terrific imagination, but he needs to surround himself with people (such as Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, and John Landis with Blues Brothers), who will be able to tell him to reign in his more crazy and incoherent ideas. Nothing But Trouble is probably the best example out there of what would happen if you let Dan Aykroyd do whatever the hell he wanted creatively without anybody checking him.
I like this movie, saw it twice as a child. Reminds me of "flight of the navigator", which I also saw twice.
This guy talking is funny as hell🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was probably around 12 years old and watched this movie a lot for a few years, as it was on the movie channel a lot. It's music is probably the soundtrack to that time in my life lol. I loved that version of "Kiss" by Tom Jones, and the song "Pump up the Volume" was a total favorite. A very nostalgic film for me.
Kim Basinger was my second big crush, behind Gates McFadden from Star Trek: TNG.
22:17 didn’t realize this was about Francine Hughes from 1977 and TV movie in 1984 called Burning Bed until right now. In fact in 89/90 to young to know about that. I’m fact I just heard about it recently and just now put 2 & 2 together.
Nothing But Trouble is 💣🥰 Weinerschnitzel? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is a sleeper classic from my childhood
I'm always reminded about how much Kim Basinger from this era looks like Taylor Swift. Maybe it's just my imagination but they literally could convincingly pass off as mother and daughter.
No thanks a couple insult to Kim Basinger! Kim Wilde Looked a lot like Kim Basinger
That's rather than thanks my laptop was being a ducking cunt
no.
oh man, this movie
probably one of the very first movies I've ever watched
it was in 1990 or 91, I was just a small child and this was almost new haha
My brothers and I would watch this all the time as kids. Love it. Purse monster is fantastic.
She has a Dianoga in her purse. lol
" failed to invade movie theaters"
wow! so glad I spent my time on Earth Girls are Easy instead.
this movie traumatized me as a child. thanks
The jokes from the movie are actually better than jokes from this video.
I watched this over and over back in the day
I would kill to see awfully good movies tackle Batman and Robin to coincide with Matt Reeves Batman. The comedic possibilities would be endless!
A very kind labor of love to cover this unique little film. While JoBlo Origianls is hilarious and with keen observations and insights, it was a bit cold to recommend "Stepmother's An Alien" not for his humor, but for it's 80's nostalgia. I say, who cares if the comedy is a bunch of one-liners and slap-stick. Kim Bassinger pulls it off like a bomb-shell pro. Easily comparable to the astounding performance of Ellen Barken in "Switch." In that other lost 80's film Mrs. Barken plays a cruel, mysoginistic executive who is murdered, but gets sent back by God as a hot, blonde female. The acting of Ellen Barken as she plays a asshole corporate-dude trapped in a HOT woman's body should have gotten the Oscar that year. But then again, it's ONLY comedy, right? It's "only" Kim Bassinger. Dumb Blonde. // "My Stepmother is an Alien" is loaded with a lot of Freudain subtext and was a provocative commentary on gender roles in 1980's America at large. That, and also "Switch (1991)---highly recommended!
You look like Princes Stephanie. And you look like Princes Stephanie....😂
I forgot the details in this movie. This perfectly echos my marriage. No seriously just she is a legal alien now not an other world alien. Chinese. Sheesh
I remember this one as a teenager.
Another I remember seeing in the theater as a kid
It's a great movie ...and it's getting a new release on Arrow blu ray..
When she pulls the eggs from boiling water!!!!!!
Princess Caroline is Grace Kelly's daughter.
This movie used to play on cable a ton and along with my usual diet of any movie on cable, I watched it. It was hot, but not very good, but it was hot. It remains me when I went to see "I Know Who Killed Me" with Lindsey Lohan because I heard she stripped in it, back in the day. It was...not worth it. On a serious note, though, I can tell this movie suffered from a tonal problem. One minute it's a family friendly comedy with Dan Akroyd as a single dad , the next minute it's a supernatural male fantasy with a young hot Kim Basinger and well, Dan Akroyd and than it's a science fiction film. This movie probably needed one more rewrite to choose a direction to go.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can call the Klystron Tube a macguffin. The reason? They are REAL tubes used in microwave based communication equipment! Yes, what happens in this movie is pure fiction, but I don't think the Klystron tube deserves the macguffin label. A station as depicted in the movie WOULD likely have a Klystron tube as part of it's PA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystron
What's up with 90s movies and Jimmy Durante? I remember another movie where the climax included Michael J. Fox doing a Durante impersonation.
Yep that movie was Greedy (1994) - If it wasn’t for these two movies I don’t know if I’d know who Durante was.
Oh boy was the bitterness palpable in this one
Glad to see someone giving praise to Coneheads.
Some movies you want to put out of your brain that you seen and this is one of them. I forgot how BAD this movie, this movie isn't bad that's it good or guilty pleasure bad but bad, bad. Looking at all the scene from the movie I can't believe this got release at Christmas in 1988. Both Twins and Stepmother was release on the same date that the producer of Twins felt so bad that Twins killed Stepmother that he apologize.
Ironically both “Twins” and “My Stepmother Is An Alien” were co-written by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris.
I remember this being on a local basic station all the time when I was a kid
Boy, I just might as well turn it off when I hear that voice.
I was just binging clips of this show about 2 months ago. Or someone else reviewed it. Willow and Oz as babies.🥰
Say what you will but John Lovitz saved SNL for a few year's , Dan Aykroyd is a weird and lost human but this was a great movie. 👍
Just watched CONEHEADS a few days ago, still a damn good watch.
US GEN XERS DID HAVE THE BEST MOVIES.
I loved this movie and even bought the soundtrack. Thanks for sharing.
I liked this movie as a kid, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid.
I do hope Dan Got to "know Kim in the biblical sense".
11:29 "just like my japanese anime!"
I loved this movie. And bring European i really understood the reference to Princes Stephanie. I had seen her music videos
Me thinking: does this deserve to be here?
Watches review
... yes it deserves to be here....
Still waiting fir DOCTOR DETROIT 2 THE WRATH OF MOM!!!