...but you have to be in the right mindset. If comedies like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, or yes, even Leonard part 6 are your style of comedy, this movie is for you! This comedy is dumb, but intentionally so. As a test, do you think an Emperor named "Todd" is funny? If so, see this movie! If not, maybe you should move on to a smarter comedy.

Tod (robustly played with deliciously hammy élan by Jon Lovitz),the idiotic emperor of the tiny planet of Spengo, plans to destroy the earth. It's up to chipper, frumpy housewife Marge (the always delightful Terri Garr) and her grumpy husband Dick (the excellent Jeffrey Jones) to stop Todd. Director Greg Beeman, working from a blithely inane and good-natured script by Chris Matheson and Ed Soloman, pitches the cheerfully dippy humor at an appropriately broad pitch and maintains an infectiously lighthearted tone throughout. The humor is essentially Monty Python meets Dr. Seuss, with several inspired moments of surreal silliness (the cute killer mushrooms and the gag about the deadly light grenade are especially sidesplitting). The cast have a field day with the divinely asinine material: Garr and Jones make for appealing leads (their bickering scenes in particular are hilarious),Lovitz is an absolute riot as the hopelessly stupid and arrogant Tod, Thalmus Rasulala contributes a winning turn as General Afir, Kathy Ireland looks positively delectable in her skimpy outfit as Semage, and there are nice bits by Eric Idle as the absentminded King Raff and Wallace Shawn as meek torturer Sibor. Tony Gardner supplies a bunch of funky creatures; the fish ladies and bulldog men are simply adorable. Kudos are also in order for Jerry Goldsmith's spirited zany score and Jacques Haitkin's crisp cinematography. A very funny and charming goof of a film.

Ever seen License to Drive? That's a Greg Beeman movie, too. This one, he got Jeffrey Jones, usually the villain, to play the heroic dad opposite Terri Garr. Of course it bombed. But it ended up becoming an HBO and video store favorite.

Emperor Tod Spengo (Jon Lovitz) rules the planet Spengo, the leader of idiots who have created a Super Death Ray Laser that will destroy our planet. That's all before he fell in love with the aforementioned mother.

Once they arrive on Spengo, courtesy of the Magnobeam, Marge is waited on by servants with fish or dog heads, while Dick is stuck in the dungeon, where he meets Raff (Eric Idle),who is the real leader and goes into the desert to find his son White Bird and the rebels.

Jon Lovitz left Saturday Night Live to make this film. I'd compare it to Flash Gordon but you know, Jeffrey Jones instead of Sam J. Jones.