Earth Girls Are Easy

As funny and silly as ever, it's even more interesting to watch as a period piece, exulting in the dream of the San Fernando Valley of the 1980s.

Intended by director Julian Temple and his screenwriters to affectionately skewer Tinseltown lifestyles.

This is deliberately, gleefully vacuous entertainment, and any satirical edge is blunted by the film's obvious affection for its subject.

It is a joyfully chaotic and wildly uneven work that shows Mr. Temple's roots in music videos.

An entertaining trifle.

The movie equivalent of cheap champagne -- even though it's lousy, it still gives you tickles up the nose.

A lot of it is still funny, and the performances are charming. But if anyone born in 1990 or later watched this movie, they probably wouldn’t understand half of what happens. (35th anniversary)

This is a movie that raises its bad taste as a defiant banner, which will have sworn defenders and staunch enemies. [Full review in Spanish]

Earth Girls Are Easy manages to both subvert and give in to the conventions of its time, creating a work so singularly absurd and campy, you can't not enjoy it.

...a larger-than-life premise that's employed to affable yet mostly forgettable effect by Temple...