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Coneheads is a 1993 American science-fiction comedy film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Lorne Michaels, directed by Steve Barron, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Michelle Burke. The film is based on the NBC Saturday Night Live comedy sketches about aliens stranded on Earth, who have Anglicized their Remulakian surname to "Conehead". Michelle Burke took over the role played by Laraine Newman on SNL. The film also features roles and cameos by actors and comedians from SNL and other television series of the time.

Coneheads
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steve Barron
Screenplay by	Tom Davis Dan Aykroyd Bonnie Turner Terry Turner
Based on	Coneheads sketches from Saturday Night Live by Lorne Michaels
Produced by	Lorne Michaels
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Jane Curtin
Cinematography	Francis Kenny
Edited by	Paul Trejo
Music by	David Newman
Production companies	Lorne Michaels Productions NBC Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 23, 1993 (1993-07-23)
Running time	87 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million
Box office	$21.3 million[2]

Three years after the release of Coneheads, screenwriters Bonnie & Terry Turner and star Jane Curtin revisited the premise of aliens arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society with the TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun, with Curtin instead playing a human character.

Plot

Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, who fire on the unresponsive craft and cause it to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, near Manhattan. The aliens from the planet Remulak aboard, Beldar Clorhone and his "genetomate" Prymaat, survive and quickly adapt to the human lifestyle, despite their conspicuous conical-shaped heads and metallic-sounding voices. Assigned by Highmaster Mintot to conquer Earth (a 'Protoid Re-fueling Station') as 'Fuel Survey Underlord of the Wilderness Planet at the end of the Noctolium Solar Chain', Beldar becomes an appliance repairman, and upon discovering his undocumented status, his boss Otto arranges for a false identity, which quickly alerts the INS. Meanwhile, after the couple discover from fellow Remulakian Marlax Zanthstrom that a rescue vessel will not arrive for seven "Zurls" (many years), Prymaat informs Beldar she is pregnant. Ambitious INS agent Gorman Sneedling and his assistant Eli Turnbull unsuccessfully attempt to capture the couple.

Months later, Beldar has become a respected taxi driver, and the couple live in his boss, Khoudri's basement. After their daughter Connie's birth, they buy a home and move to suburban Paramus, New Jersey, adopting the surname Conehead, where Beldar begins another new career as a driving instructor. Meanwhile, Gorman gets a promotion and decides to leave the Coneheads' case to his replacement, but the case's extreme expense forces him to ensure its closure.

The now-teenaged Connie simply wants to fit in with her peers, though her father greatly objects, especially when she begins seeing auto mechanic Ronnie Bradford. This causes tension between Connie and Beldar, who strongly disapproves of Ronnie, even tearing the roof off of his car and threatening to kill him after he tries to make love with Connie, which irritates her. Despite this, Ronnie and Connie reconcile after talking. Meanwhile, Beldar is preoccupied with winning a golfing trophy at his country club, while Prymaat becomes concerned about his attractiveness to her due to one of his driving students, Gladys Johnson, flirting with him.

Gorman and Eli track the Coneheads to their home, posing as Jehovah's Witnesses to enter. During the conversation, Prymaat discovers their communication device to Remulak is beeping and notifies Beldar that 'the Big Phone' has contacted him, causing him to promptly eject the two. He is then notified of their approaching rescue vessel.

At a costume party that night, Beldar wins the golfing trophy. After Connie is told of their imminent rescue, she returns home with Ronnie, where she almost consummates their relationship using her parents' "senso-rings". Beldar and Prymaat discover them, just as the INS arrives to arrest the Coneheads. Ronnie helps stall the INS while the rescue vessel arrives just in time, and Gorman and Eli are taken aboard with the Coneheads.

On Remulak, Beldar is welcomed home, presenting the Highmaster with various Earthly 'gifts', including Gorman and Eli as slaves. Initially satisfied with Beldar's accomplishments, Mintot notices that Beldar's teeth are capped (something Otto had advised Beldar to do to blend in), accuses him of treason and sentences him to fight the ferocious Garthok ("knarfle the Garthok"), greatly distressing Prymaat.

After the Garthok easily and gruesomely kills other criminals sentenced to fight it, Beldar uses his Earthly golfing skills to save himself, killing the creature. Afterwards, he requests to return to Earth to oversee its conquest, taking Gorman back with him as a minion. Mintot agrees and hires Eli as his personal assistant, who quickly acclimates to his new role. Departing for Earth with Prymaat, Connie, and Gorman in tow, Beldar soon prioritizes Connie's feelings over planetary conquest by quickly faking an Earth attack, ordering his invasion force to retreat and proceed to their secondary target in another part of the galaxy, while making it look like a superior weapon has destroyed his spaceship. For rescuing him, Gorman agrees to give the Coneheads Green Cards due to Beldar's marketable talent.

Ronnie arrives to take Connie to the prom. Beldar gives him 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, he and Prymaat review the oversized photo, saying, "Ah, memories. We will enjoy them".

Cast

In addition to Jane Curtin appearing as a regular cast member, Jan Hooks, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney, Kevin Nealon, and Laraine Newman all appeared as guest stars on 3rd Rock from the Sun, which was created by Coneheads co-writers Bonnie & Terry Turner and featured a similar premise of aliens making efforts to assimilate into American society. Additionally, co-writer Terry Turner cameos in the film as the sketch artist that Seedling describes Beldar to. Dan Aykroyd's real life daughter Danielle and brother Peter appear as 3-year-old Connie and Highmaster Mentot respectively.

Production

Tom Davis, who created the characters on Saturday Night Live, wrote the first version of the screenplay. He was unhappy with choices made by the producers, including setting the Remulak scenes in a gladiators' arena, rather than the suburban environment that he envisioned.[3]

While there are some differences, Coneheads mostly follows the same plot as in the animated special that was created ten years earlier. Similarities include the Coneheads being stranded on Earth, Beldar working as an appliance repair man, and Connie dating an earthling named Ronnie.

The film mostly takes place in Paramus, New Jersey. Some scenes were filmed in New York City and the New Jersey towns of Jersey City and Wrightstown.

Reception

The film debuted at No. 6 on its opening weekend, while its domestic box office grossed $7,100,501.[4] By the end of its domestic theatrical run, the film had grossed $21,274,717.[2]

Coneheads received mostly negative reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a low score of 33%, based on 31 reviews with a consensus that reads, "Listless, crude, and overall uninspired, Coneheads offers further evidence that stretching an SNL sketch to feature length can be tougher than narfling a garthok."[5] Roger Ebert gave the film 1+1⁄2 stars out of 4, describing Coneheads as "dismal, dreary and fairly desperate" and the actors as unable to overcome an uninspired screenplay.[6] Janet Maslin of The New York Times said the film "has its dopey charms", and that it is suitable for people who found Wayne's World too demanding.[7]

The Los Angeles Times called it "an unusually companionable jape; in this world it makes perfect sense that the Coneheads' friends and neighbors never really register that there's anything terribly different about them. They're all-American eccentrics—even if they happen to come from the planet Remulak".[8]

Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B+" on scale of A+ to F.[9]

The film received some critical re-evaluation during the 2010s, with multiple writers noting its satirical take on an immigrant family experience and immigration enforcement (meant as an exaggeration of Reagan-era politics) became eerily politically relevant following the September 11 attacks.[10][11]

Soundtrack

Coneheads: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	July 20, 1993 (1993-07-20)
Recorded	1992–1993
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	43:27
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Various Artists
Singles from Coneheads: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Soul to Squeeze" Released: August 19, 1993

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link

The soundtrack for Coneheads was released on July 20, 1993 by Warner Bros. Records. It features the songs "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, "It's a Free World, Baby" by R.E.M. and "Soul to Squeeze" by the band Red Hot Chili Peppers which would go on to reach 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[12] The album itself would peak at 162 on the US Billboard 200 chart.[13]

Track listing

None of David Newman's score was included on the above album, but it was issued on a 2015 Intrada album paired with his scores for Talent for the Game and Itsy Bitsy Spider.[14]

References

External links

• Coneheads at IMDb
• Coneheads at AllMovie
• Coneheads at Box Office Mojo
• Coneheads at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Die Coneheads

Die Coneheads (Originaltitel: Coneheads, dt. Kegelköpfe) ist eine Filmkomödie aus dem Jahr 1993 von Regisseur Steve Barron mit Dan Aykroyd und Jane Curtin in den Hauptrollen. Die Figuren basieren auf den in den Jahren 1977 bis 1979 gezeigten Coneheads-Sketchen der Comedy-Show Saturday Night Live.

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- [en] Coneheads (film)

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[es] Coneheads

Coneheads (titulada como Los Caraconos en España y Los Coneheads en Latinoamérica) es una película estadounidense de 1993 del género comedia basada en los sketches del mismo nombre del programa Saturday Night Live (SNL). Es dirigida por Steve Barron y producida por Lorne Michaels. Como ocurrió con la anterior película basada en sketches de SNL, The Blues Brothers, se ha dicho que Coneheads es una declaración política o un comentario social "accidental" o "sin intención" acerca de la naturaleza de las experiencias de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, aunque los creadores aseguran que lo hicieron con el único fin de entretener.

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[it] Teste di cono

Teste di cono (Coneheads) è un film statunitense del 1993 del regista Steve Barron, distribuito dalla Paramount Pictures.

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[ru] Яйцеголовые

«Яйцеголовые» (англ. Coneheads) — американская кинокомедия 1993 года. Фильм основан на скетчах о Яйцеголовых из телешоу Субботним вечером в прямом эфире. Точный перевод названия фильма — «Конусоголовые»; в действительности форма голов пришельцев из фильма похожа на конус, а не на яйцо.

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