Mannen från Mars

My Favorite Martian

Spirits and energy are high, mugging is permitted, dialogue is rapid-fire, nobody walks if they can run. As kids' entertainment, it's like a live-action cartoon, and I can recommend it on that level...

...the movie is pretty much what you might expect from a big-screen adaptation of a once-popular '60s TV series: good-natured, appealing, and sophomoric..

Christopher Lloyd does his rubber-faced weirdo shtick and the ever-game Daniels is just along for the ride, but the movie's salvation is Hurley, who shows that her comic turn in AUSTIN POWERS was no fluke.