but I didn't expect to be having aliens for lunch." Later, she reads off a tin of instant pudding, "Just add water. "Oooooh," she says, scoping out the contents of the fridge, "not much here. The next day, while she's mooning by the swimming pool in her fuchsia bikini, trying to dispel all the negative energy, a spaceship driven by three brightly colored, fur-covered spacemen drops into the water, looking for all the world like a gigantic bathtub toy. When she finds out, though, she breaks off the engagement and boots him out of the house, and then goes on a rampage, busting up everything in sight. Not exactly a coffee achiever, Valerie is sweetly naive and trusting it would never cross her mind that her fiance' (Charles Rocket) is palpating someone else. Trapped in a bum relationship with a philandering surgeon, Valerie looks as if her noggin should have party umbrellas sticking out of it. Set in Southern California, the movie is a bauble, bright with pop-your-eyes-out colors, but it has a message for all the women of the world who complain that there are no good men out there: Watch the skies!Īs the Valley manicurist Valerie, Davis doesn't so much scan the clouds as have her head permanently stuck in them. "Earth Girls Are Easy," a frisky extraterrestrial romance starring Geena Davis, is the movie equivalent of cheap champagne - even though it's lousy, it still gives you tickles up the nose.
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