So Much Talent

I just re-watched What Planet Are You From?, as epic flop from 2000. Even with Mike Nichols directing I don't get how they got such a big budget--$50 million--for a film that would be lucky to gross half that much. (It ended up making around $6 million.)

I'm a big fan of Garry Shandling, but the truth is the public just didn't want to see him star in a comedy. Even Larry Sanders, one of the best shows ever, didn't get great ratings by HBO standards.

The movie itself has some moments, but the plot--an alien from an all-male, unemotional planet comes to Earth to impregnate a woman--and the gags are surprisingly stale.

The thing I noticed this time: the end credits are done in the same font as The New Yorker. Yet another misfire.