Years before playing the alien in Steve Barron’s Saturday
Night Live movie Coneheads in 1993 (also opposite Jon Lovitz onscreen),
comedian Dan Aykroyd played the opposing side in Milk Money director
Richard Benjamin’s science fiction infused romantic comedy My Stepmother is
an Alien. An underrated comic gem
that was all but overlooked completely when it first came out but has since
amassed a minor cult following, this sexy risqué comedy is a quasi-riff on such
fare as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman with just a hint of Marilyn Monroe bombshell
comic romps. Originally pitched as a
dark allegory for child abuse before it was reworked into a family comedy of
sorts, the film came and went before languishing on home video until recently
the good folks at Arrow Video oversaw a 2K restoration from the original camera
negative. While far from a hidden
masterpiece waiting to be rediscovered, it’s a fun 80s romp in league with Weird
Science for its mixture of sex comedy and sci-fi.
--Andrew Kotwicki