Men really ARE from outer space.
But Gary Shandling's efforts at spoofing the differences between the sexes are very uneven in this comedy about an alien who must impregnate a human woman. Annette Bening, John Goodman and Ben Kingsley co-star. And if she has a problem with that, well, that's her problem. The joke, which may be lost on those unfamiliar with Shandling's acidic comedy of insecurity, is that Shandling's comic persona is exactly the opposite. Shandling plays H1449-6, resident of a planet four solar systems away that has cloned itself into near extinction.