Oh, and I loved the explanation Joey comes up with why Mary looks like us: “You believe that God made us in his image. and return back to her planet to, I dunno, lead the rebellion. Cue a whole lot of running from the twin Terminators and eventual interspecies lip-locking before Mary has to make an E.T. In short, she’s adorable and talented, and you understand why Joey would upend heaven and earth to keep her safe. Mary also takes makeup and does All The Things with it on her face like she’s in kabuki theater. Every time she needs to convince people she’s an alien, she pulls off some weird mental trick, like making pool balls float or snow start falling. He’s got the sort of energy that only the youthful have, and it fits in well with an ’80s romance flick.īut he has to make room for Mary, who’s the star here with her wide eyes, fascination with TV, and overall secretive nature. But it’s fascinating to see him much younger as an extremely talkative romantic lead. Honestly, his roles tend to creep me out even when he’s supposed to be a good guy. While Joey is a bold guy who knows his way around the city and isn’t afraid to stick his neck out for his friends, Mary’s harboring telepathic and telekinetic powers as befits her species. And Starcrossed manages that, which lessens the uncomfortable feeling that it’s just a guy taking advantage of a very lost girl. This sort of premise doesn’t work when all of the power and know-how is wrapped up in one person. Well, thank goodness I’m not that pathetic any more! Yes. I figured that if I could never get a great girl, maybe there was a visitor from Pluto who might need my attentive guidance through the art of love. I think it’s the added layer of having somebody be extra protective and explaining modern society while getting all googly eyes that made it a personal fantasy. The ’80s had a lot of these movies where someone falls in love with a non-human - whether mermaid, alien, android, or computer program come to life - and I was always a sucker for them back in the day. Before you know it - literally before the opening neon credits and super sappy made-for-TV song are done - they’re sort of a traveling item. He thinks she’s a Russian escapee, but the truth is that she’s actually an alien freedom fighter on the run from the oppressors who took over her planet.Īlien fugitive or no, Mary the alien (Belinda Bauer) is undeniably cute and Joey the mechanic (James Spader) is undeniably hard up for a date. Justin’s review: Out of a dark alley, a woman in a red leather coat flees two ominous goons and bumps into a mechanic who offers to give her a lift to a bus station. “You have courage and dignity, and I’ve been a coward.”
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