Coneheads

Plot synopsis:
Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, and they fire on the craft when it doesn't respond. Activating a cloaking device too late, the spaceship crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, near Manhattan. The aliens aboard, Beldar Clorhone and his life-mate Prymaat, survive and quickly adapt to our human way of life, despite standing out with their conical shaped heads. Beldar was assigned by the Highmaster to conquer earth as a Protoid Re-fueling Station under the title of 'Fuel Survey Underlord of the Wilderness Planet at the end of the Noctolium Solar Chain'. Beldar gets work as an appliance repairman, and when his grateful boss Otto discovers that Beldar has no documentation, he arranges for a false identity, which sends up a red flag that quickly alerts the INS. Meanwhile, after communicating with their world (Remulak) and discovering that a rescue vessel will not arrive for seven "Zurls" (many years), Prymaat informs Beldar that she is pregnant. They now need to completely adapt and safely blend in in order to raise their child among humans. Ambitious INS agent Gorman Seedling and his assistant Eli attempt to capture Beldar and Prymaat, but they are able to elude the two agents.
Months later, Beldar has become a respected taxi driver, and the couple live in his boss's basement. After the birth of their daughter Connie, they buy a home and move to suburban Paramus, New Jersey, adopting the surname Conehead. Beldar begins a new career, this time as a driving instructor. Meanwhile, Gorman gets a promotion and decides to leave the Coneheads' case to the agent replacing him. His promotion, however, is soon held-up by the case's extreme expense, forcing Gorman to continue until it's closed.
Now a teenager, all Connie Conehead wants to do is fit in with her peers, much to the objections of her father, especially when she begins seeing Ronnie, an auto mechanic. This caused tension between Connie and Beldar, who strongly disapproves of Ronnie, with Beldar going so far as tearing the roof off Ronnie's car and threatening him after he tries to sleep with her (an act that angers Connie greatly). Beldar is also preoccupied with winning a golfing trophy at his country club, while Prymaat becomes concerned about her attractiveness to Beldar due to one of Beldar's driving students making a pass at him.
Gorman and Eli track the Coneheads down to their home and pose as Jehovah's Witnesses to gain entry to the Conehead home. During the conversation, Prymaat discovers their communication device to Remulak is beeping, and she promptly tells Beldar that he has a phone call from 'the Big Phone'. This cause Beldar to promptly eject Gorman and Eli from their home. Beldar then receives word that their rescue vessel is on its way.
At a costume party that night, Connie is told that they will be rescued soon. She disobeys her "parental units" by returning home with Ronnie. Once there Connie consummates their relationship using her parents "senso-rings". Beldar and Prymaat walk in on them, just as the INS shows up to take the Coneheads into custody. Their rescue vessel arrives just in time, and Gorman and Eli are taken aboard with Beldar, Prymaat, and Connie.
On Remulak, Beldar is welcomed home, presenting Highmaster Mintot with a variety of 'gifts' from earth, including Gorman and Eli as slaves. Mintot is at first satisfied with what Beldar has accomplished during his time on Earth, until he notices that Beldar got his teeth capped (something Beldar had done as a part of blending in). He accuses Beldar of treason and sentences him to fight the ferocious Garthok ("narful the Garthok"), much to Prymaat's distress.
After the Garthok easily and gruesomely kills others who were sentenced to fight it, Beldar uses his Earthly golfing skills to save himself, killing the creature. For his victory, he is then granted a request: Beldar wishes to return to Earth to oversee its conquest, taking Gorman back with him as a minion. Mintot agrees, and Eli is left behind, becoming the Highmaster's personal lackey, acclimating to his new role rather quickly. Beldar leaves for Earth with Prymaat, Connie, and Gorman in tow. He soon demonstrates that Connie's feelings are more important to him than planetary conquest by quickly faking an Earth attack. Beldar orders his invasion force to retreat to Remulak, while making it look like his spaceship has been destroyed by a superior weapon. For sparing his life, Gorman agrees to give the Coneheads Green Cards in exchange for Beldar proving he has a marketable talent no other American citizen possesses, to which Beldar confidently agrees.
Some time later, Ronnie arrives to take Connie to the prom. Beldar gives Ronnie 55 words of advice, and then uses a massive flash bulb arrangement on his home-built Polaroid camera to document the happy event. As Connie and a now-sunburned Ronnie depart, Beldar and Prymaat look at the oversized photo, saying, "Memories, we will enjoy them".

Tags: cult, stupid

Review:
CONEHEADS was an inventive and smartly written 1993 comedy that expanded upon the original Saturday Night Live skits starring Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and Lorraine Newman as Beldar, Prymatt, and Connie Conehead, the aliens who are trying to live as earthlings and tell the world that they are from France.
The fact that this is a good film AND it was done by ex-SNL actors help this movie to really stand out for me.
Dan Aykroyd is terrific as Beldar and it shows that he CAN do a decent film (and he's done some stinkers--Neighbors, 1941, Nothing But Trouble, Dr. Detroit).As I said above, I haven't been that impressed by many of the films by ex-SNL cast members--especially when they are movie-length versions of SNL skits.
Also, although I generally hate David Spade, his annoying personality fits in perfectly with the character he plays.This is a good film for the whole family.
Beldar (Aykroyd) & Prymaat (Curtin) Conehead are two aliens who come from the planet Remulak their ship has crash landed on earth and have no way to return home.
Coneheads is a great family comedy with tons of laughs from start to finish , Chris Farley 29, & Michelle Burke 23, play the star crossed teenage couple with humor and warmth 8/10 Stars.
I really wondered if you could pull off a feature film from basically a 5 minute TV skit...but the script is so well written with so many funny jokes...David Spade is another who delivers line after line as the smarmy kiss butt assistant to Michael McKean's character.
If I did not fear incarceration by human authority figures, I would terminate your life functions by applying sufficient force to your blunt skull — as to cause its collapse." The cameos from Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spaid,Drew Carey, Jon Lovitz, Sinbad, and Jason Alexander all made for hilarious moments.
Great cast, silly plot, this movie is good for all SNL fans.
Just like Beldar's homemade fireworks display this movie may not make a lasting impression immediately, but give it a chance.The movie is a really fine piece of work, it's good for a laugh again and again.On top of that most (US) comedy actors worth mentioning are in the movie!.
Based on a skit from Saturday Night Live (when SNL was really in its heyday) this is a fun look at the lives of the Coneheads - Beldar and Prymatt and their daughter Connie, a family of pointy headed aliens who get stuck on earth and have to blend in among the "bluntskulls," claiming to be from France (which no one ever questions) and enjoying such earth delicacies as "charred mammal flesh" and "flattened chicken embryos." Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin (as Beldar and Prymatt) demonstrate remarkable talent just in being able to get through this with relatively straight faces.
Simply watching the Coneheads attempting to blend in to human society would have been sufficiently enjoyable.The movie has a surprisingly low rating here, suggesting to me that many people are perhaps treating it too seriously.
"Coneheads" is the perfect kind of movie to have on killing time late at night, or when you just want to veg and not think about anything.
Dan Aykroyd really loves his Beldar character, and it shows here as much as it does in the many Saturday Night Live skits about the Coneheads..
"It's Pat: The Movie" (1994), "A Night At The Roxbury" (1999)), but "Coneheads" stands today as a very funny mix of comedy and science fiction.The early Saturday Night Live sketches vaguely explained how the Coneheads came to Earth.
This movie takes some of its humor from the humans' obvious lack of observational skills, but it's really Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtan's consistent disappearance into these character that really makes the movie funny.
They talk in monotone voices and spew out complicated alien jargon without missing a beat, and they use the film's special effects to their advantage.I also liked how, because the last Coneheads sketch was 14 years prior to this movie's release, the movie started from the beginning, explaining how Beldar (Aykroyd) and Prymatt (Curtan) landed on Earth in modern-day America, and worked their way from a hotel room to the projects to the suburbs.
Although the subplot where she begins dating 29-year-old mechanic Ronnie (Chris Farley) still seems creepy to me, considering her character was supposed to be 15 or 16, I thought Burke added a really nice touch to what could have been a Dan Aykroyd impersonation.The main conflict of the film served as an interesting analogy to illegal immigration, but had some definite plot holes.
Based on that fact, a giant plot hole emerges when INS agents and antagonists Gorman Seedling (Michael McKean) and Eli Turnbull (David Spade) don't age at all over that time period.Also, near the end, the rescue ship finally comes for the Coneheads, and it seems to take about a day to travel back to Remulak, their native planet.
Also, perhaps better than any other SNL movie to date, having numerous former and (then) current Not Ready For Primetime Players in various roles large and small served as a great tribute to "Saturday Night Live".
There were also a few cameos from then-unknown stand-up comedians who would go on to be big stars (Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Carey, Eddie Griffin)."The Blues Brothers", "Wayne's World", and "Wayne's World 2" (1993) were hard movies to top, but "Coneheads", while not great, is pretty funny, and miles away from the notoriously bad SNL movies that were to come.
The whole point of the movie seems to be to make an old sketch funny and hip again, and bring together 18 years of Saturday Night Live members under one roof, and actually it succeeds at both.
Beldar and Pyrmatt Conehead were funnier here than they ever were on the SNL sketches, and cast members from all the years appear including all the surviving original cast members (minus Chevy Chase).Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Pyrmatt (Jane Curtain) are coneheaded aliens accidentally stranded on Earth.
Aykroyd and Curtain were actually great together and had quite a bit of chemistry.This is a fun movie, and for any Saturday Night Live fan, this will be great.
They are odd in the extreme eating toilet paper, light bulbs, and talking in jargon laced monotone.But in doing that they also made life on earth and the simple pleasures we all enjoy, something to be appreciated...from an outsider's point of view.I think another thing that makes the movie a joy to watch is the high production values.
It's a comedy about a richly detailed alien culture with first-rate sets, interesting devices, crazy and funny characters (most of the humans are deeply flawed) and some of the best stop-motion animation ever filmed.
I got turned off right near the beginning of the film when the alien couple got a motel room and the wife was seen laughing out loud as she read the Bible: a typical Hollywood cheap shot.After that, however, it was fine and had some funny, outrageous scenes.
There were a number of sex remarks and innuendos, maybe to make up for the little profanity but by today's standards this was an inoffensive film.It's an hour-and-a-half of goofy humor played by the same people (Dan Achroyd, Jane Curtin, etc.) who made this couple famous on television..
The story of Beldar and Prymaat crash landing while on a scouting mission of our primitive planet and getting marooned here lead to some good times and a lot of laughs.
All in all it's tough to make a five minute comedy sketch into a feature length film and that's why many of the SNL movies aren't all that great or memorable even.
Coneheads is different, it has some good lines and brilliant comedians sure, but it also has.a story that adds depth and character to the seemingly robot like, pointy headed out of towners we knew from the 70s ground breaking sketch comedy icon known as Saturday Night Live..
I never saw the Coneheads on SNL, but someone suggested I see the movie, and I was pleased.Just the voice they talk with and their word usage is enough to make an ordinary statement very funny.
While you may think that this is a silly concept; Aliens crash land on earth, adapt to the culture, and eventually succeed and prosper, all the while averting capture and deportation by diligent and determined civil serpents of the renowned INS, only to be suddenly rescued by their own kind and returned to their home planet where Beldar is tried and convicted for losing his space ship.
Not only is there a huge contingent of SNL stars from the 70s up to the 90s (Aykroyd, Curtin, Garret Morris, Laraine Newman, Jan Hooks, Michael McKean, Julia Sweeney, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Tim Meadows, David Spade, etc.) but others like Jason Alexander, Drew Carey, Michael Richards, Dave Thomas, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey and Tom Arnold.
Most characters in the movie barely notice or mention the cones; most of the time the coneheads make little effort to fit in, and only a few people seem to notice the difference.
Granted, Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin were funny on SNL as Beldar and Prymat, but the movie has given them the chance to show how funny they can be as these two aliens from "France"!
Coneheads is full of cameos including Adam Sandler, Jon Lovitz and Tom Arnold and great small parts by David Spade and Chris Farley.
However, with a majority of past SNL characters, Coneheads lives up to the the original sketches with Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin.
Eventually Mrs. Conehead has a daughter, Connie (Burke) and they try to live a normal life on earth.
The Saturday Night live people who appear in this movie are: Adam Sandler (Who is also very good in his part as a guy who gives Veldar his new identity when Veldar is discovered by Otto as being an "illegal alien".),Chris Farley(I've already told you about him), Dan Aykroyd, and Jane Curtin.
Coneheads is one of the best "Saturday Night Live" movies.
Coneheads is one of the best "Saturday Night Live" movies.
Coneheads is one of the best "Saturday Night Live" movies.
Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymatt Conehead (Jane Curtin) are aliens from Remulak scouting for an invasion when they're shot down by an American fighter jet.
Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin were very underrated as comediennes, and the unsung heroes that held the cast together during its excellent run of the early days.What's hardly ever talked about, when it comes to movies based on SNL skits, is how important the supporting players are.
With "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels producing and a huge all star comedy cast including Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Jason Alexander, Chris Farley, Michael Richards, Lisa Jane Persky, Sinbad, Michael McKean, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Dave Thomas, Jan Hooks, Adam Sandler, Julia Sweeney and Drew Carey cast in the shenanigans, "Coneheads" should have been a gut busting laugh riot.
One of the "SNL" adaptations that actually worked, "Coneheads" has tall-headed aliens Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymatt (Jane Curtin) crash-landing on Earth and having to adjust, and also raising their daughter Connie (Michelle Burke).
grew up watching & loving this super Happy feelgood Crazy Comedy with the legendary DAN AYKROYD on great fun form,the CONEHEADS are a family of Aliens who land in America & try to fit into Suburban life & it's great fun.
Dan Aykroyd is always great to watch I'm a huge fan & GHOSTBUSTERS 1&2 & DRAGNET are some of my favourite movies of all time & CONEHEADS would fit in there too along with Spies like us!!!
RELEASED IN 1993 and directed by Steve Barron, "Coneheads" chronicles events when a couple from the planet Remulak, Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymatt (Jane Curtin), are mistakenly ditched on Earth, during a reconnaissance mission for planet takeover.
I had my doubts about this movie because I didn't think they could take an amusing 9-minute SNL skit and effectively make it into a film ten times longer.
I can understand why some people may not like it, I would recommend before watching the film watching a few of the original 'Coneheads' sketches from Saturday Night Live because the film references several of them, while still keeping a fairly original story.
By the way, I've always found the movie very funny, a little dated, given that it was all seventies based humor from the original sketches on SNL and it was done over a decade later.
Dan Akroyd has shown himself a versatile comedic & dramatic actor.Coneheads (the movie & as seen on SNL) was wacky, a bit Sophomoric, but, for me completely entertaining.
A forgettable movie, like I know the Coneheads are in the movie but I don't remember what they do or why they do whatever it is being done, like well over a hour of film is spent on central characters who are aliens from outer space trying to live on Earth incognito and its an utterly forgettable movie, that's not on me, I didn't screw that up.
Aliens with cone shaped craniums (including Dan Aykroyd) come to Earth to observe everyday life.I am not sure which Saturday Night Live sketch was the first to be transformed into a movie, but at some point it became more and more common, and in the 1990s it seemed they could turn just about anything into a film.
Coneheads is the 1993 comedy adapted from a skit from Saturday Night Live which is at the moment rated at a lousy 4.9 out of 10.
Overall this movie is very funny and should be watched by fans of SNL and Dan Ankroyd.
"Coneheads" is a fine example of one of the worst films ever churned out from a now-unfunny show.Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin bring their SNL roles to the big screen, and they have a lot to be ashamed of.
Based on the popular sketch from "Saturday Night Live" episodes of the 1970s, the film follows a family of coneheads who come to Earth and live as normally as everyone else.
I have known about the "Coneheads" for years now, and may have seen a bit of a "Saturday Night Live" skit with the characters at some point back when I was a kid.
I don't know what I would think of any of the short "Coneheads" sketches, but there are definitely better movies featuring SNL characters than this one.Beldar and Prymatt are a couple with cone-shaped heads from the planet Remulak who find themselves stranded on Earth.
Nonetheless, the Coneheads live like this for quite a long time, and remain on Earth as Connie grows up.
The plot isn't the greatest one ever written.Like I said, better movies featuring SNL characters have been made.
Several other SNL stars appear at different points in "Coneheads", including Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, and David Spade, but for all of them, this movie was not a very high point in their careers.
The depressingly tame and repetitive nature of Coneheads grows maddening after a while, and what we're left with is an empty shell of a film that doesn't live up to thematic potential and just kind of flounders when it should be flooring its audience.Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, David Spade, Chris Farley, and Adam Sandler.
Dan Aykroyd is known for making good comedy films.
But in this film, rarely do people react at all to the conehead family as if they were aliens.
). In this comedy the entire project it's his , in fact the story of two aliens going from away space for conquest the earth but a spoilt constrict them a long adaptation stay on own planet is very funny and hilarious, if you think that the movie is based on a old `Saturday Night Live', you can understand the arrogance and the provocation that it contain( a little limited, but efficacious).
There are many special appearance to the new stars of the `Saturday Night Live' as Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, and the old but always funny Jon Lovitz.
Coneheads came out and for some weird reason that is beyond me got a bad rep, I know that this was a sillier movie and not the strongest to come out of the vaults of Saturday Night Live with it's goofy characters.
If you're telling me that you did not laugh one time during this movie, there is something wrong with you, check your funny bone because this movie has a great cast who looked like they just had a blast making Coneheads.Beldar Conehead and his wife Prymaat Conehead as they try to assimilate into American society and pursue the immigrant's American dream.
Life on earth must surely be as surprising to those aliens up there, as are the habits of these adorable coneheads to the amused viewer: Prymaat (Jane Curtin) avoiding any intermediaries and using her mouth to vacuum those dirty rugs, Beldar (Dan Ayckroyd) using condoms as chewing gums (their eating habits in general build up to a whole cluster of gags that seldom if ever fall flat) Connie's (Michelle Burke) way of kissing and so on.
Maybe because I grew up watching SNL live during its first 5 or so years but I really got a laugh out of the Coneheads when they would do that skit on SNL.
Dan Aykroyd and fellow writers from TV's long-running "Saturday Night Live" wrote this Sci-Fi comedy.
Dan And Jane, both great alumni of SNL bring to the big screen this version of Coneheads.2 aliens who came to earth to conquer the planet, crash-land and get stuck and have to adapt until rescue arrives.And the fun ensues.
While I appreciate the satirical nature of CONEHEADS, an early 1990s comedy from the Saturday Night Live team, I have to admit that I didn't find it funny at all.