Metacritic Film

Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, The

Starring MacKenzie Astin, Carmen Electra, and David Hyde Pierce

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality and language

Independent Artists
Romance
88 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 8, 1999

A quirky, irreverent and unique "mockumentary" look at sexual attraction, love, single life, and dating in the late nineties as seen through the eyes of a misinformed, though completely authoritative extra-terrestrial narrator. (Welb Film Pursuits)

WRITTEN BY
Jeff Abugov

DIRECTED BY
Jeff Abugov

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

26 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Los Angeles Times Kathleen Craughwell
The film's greatest strength is the deadpan narration of Hyde Pierce.
40 The New York Times Anita Gates
A one-joke mockumentary.
40 TV Guide
Slight, smart-alecky romantic comedy.
38 New York Post
A witless and vulgar romantic comedy wrapped inside a mock documentary.
30 Film.com
Has a cute idea. Which it promptly runs into the ground.
25 New York Daily News
A one-joke idea...wears itself out almost instantly.
20 Film.com
It's very much like a porn film without the porn, and that's about as bad as it gets.
20 Austin Chronicle
Belongs in the histrionic comedy genre, packed as it is with just plain silly situations that fail to elicit grins, much less guffaws.

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