CONEHEADS (1993) **1/2 Arguably the greatest, and without question the most easily converted to full-length format, Saturday Night Live skit revs up with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin intact as the interstellar icons of insomniacs and the hip gathered around television sets nearly 15 years earlier. Sadly, John Belushi is no longer available, having consumed his own liberal version of "mass quantities," but the credits read like a "Who's Who" of first and second generation SNL stars: Garret Morris, Laraine Newman, Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Tim Meadows, and Jon Lovitz; also shoulda-been SNLs Michael McKean, Michael Richards, Drew Carey, Jason Alexander, Sinbad and Tom Arnold. It goes without saying that Chris Farley steals the show in black leather, as a well-meaning cone-grabbin' rocker. Politics is more name-checked than engaged-the offerings on US immigration policy are sensible and well placed, but weren't there even more issues in '93 than there were in '78? Weren't things worse, wasn't there less hope? How, I wonder, could there be so little alcohol in this film, no drugs, and no decent music to speak of? Still fun after all these years, I'm glad they did it, we miss ya John. Outer space is all the richer for our loss.
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