The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
R | 03 September 1999 (USA)
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David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.

Reviews
Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW)

Everybody loves nature shows. For this movie, this one for aliens. "The Mating Habits of The Earthbound Human" is like a show by itself. This is not for science classes, because the whole thing is for aliens only. Using a great cast for the movie worked out very well. Mackenzie Astin, Carmen Electra, Lucy Liu, Markus Redmond, Leo Rossi, and many others provided a very strong cast of characters for this film. Showing how we evolve, how we survive, and how we mate with the significant other. The funny part is where Jenny Smith(Electra) gives Billy(Astin) her number, losing it in the dry-cleaning, spent days trying to find her number. So when he does, he gets very lucky. His pal from working tries to warn him about this. Takes no heed, he goes with the flow. Slowly. He copulates with her several times, and when she was pregnant, he acts just like a jerk. When he comes to his senses, he knows she's the one, and they do what they needed to do. It's a funny and fun movie to watch. Everything there can make it look like a real documentary, only star studded! 3 out of 5 stars!

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jungfrau_augen

In general this movie is just "ok" but there are a few absolutely hysterical moments. My favorite are the representations of how different contraceptives work that are done by men on a track dressed as sperm. The spermicide and pill are two funny ones in particular. Towards the end of the movie, the Male drives past them as they film and wonders what is going on. While it is just one moment, it made the whole movie worth while. Carmen Electra doesn't hurt either. I would like to state my opinion on this "minimum of ten lines of text to post a comment" policy. It is silly. I feel that my comment may be useful to someone. Why do I have to be long winded about it? It leads to filler like this, which helps no one. I certainly don't think my comment is any less valid simply because I can't write a paragraph on "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human." It's a good movie, but not ten lines good.

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rontnd

I found this film fascinating and very well done. The interest does not flag from beginning to end and the concept is so very true. In my 80 years I have seen this happen so often both with young people and old. I wish I were young again.

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Eka

I came across this movie by accident, flipping through my cable-channels. To my surprise I found it very good! This is a relaxing movie that makes you smile. It makes you comfortable. The movie is really a classic one: Boy meets girl, falls in love with all the complications that follows...The narrating is excellent with all the missunderstandings of things you take for granted. People are not logic ;)

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