Yesterday’s reviewed movie was a high-brow labor of love for its director, so in accordance with the idea of keeping things in balance, today’s movie is a low-brow vanity project. 1988′s Earth Girls Are Easy is an alien-themed romantic musical comedy written, produced, with music from and starring (though not in the lead role), Julie Brown, the singer/actress who got her start on MTV (not to be confused with fellow video jockey “Downtown” Julie Brown.)
One of these days I may learn that morbid curiosity is not a thing to be indulged, but today is not that day. And it was worth a look simply because it had early film roles for both Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans; while not the first film for either of them (in fact, it also wasn’t Brown’s first film despite the credits “Introducing” her), it gave each a fair amount of screen time before they had really made their names known. Continue reading
