Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

magicbilly384 the television series is cool Kodak magical and ray Watson does go home Finley if you watch near ending of new uncle Martian movie 1999 that doc brown back to the future scientist play new uncle martian in the new adaptation movie version and ray Watson takes off in that clone look alike space ship into outer space in Christ always chubby bill page illusionist magician in fun God Bless everyone

tom_interval As a child, I absolutely loved My Favorite Martian, watching as many reruns as I could get my eyes on. And after recently watching all three seasons on DVD, I've discovered that I love it and appreciate it even more as an adult.Sure, the special effects weren't as slick in the 1960s as they are today. And yes, in a few levitation shots, you can actually see the thread they used. But none of that matters.What made the show work is the incredible chemistry between Bill Bixby (Tim) and Ray Walston (Uncle Martian...er...Martin). Add to that cheeky but great writing, excellent comic timing, an overall great cast, and a hilarious (albeit redundant) laugh track, and you have a nostalgic sitcom that's sure to tickle your earthly funny bone and kick today's modern cynicism out of this world.

albe-6 I've always loved the Broadway Show Damn Yankees and if you watch Ray Walston on My Favorite Martian, the characters are very similar.On Damn Yankees Walston played the Devil and made many commentaries about the human race especially in the song "Those were the Good Old Days". He is also frequently seen making commentary about the human race on the TV show as well.The character Joe Hardy is given super normal baseball powers when he makes a deal with the devil. Tim O'Hara in My Favorite Martian is not given super normal powers but he takes advantage of what the Martian character can do for him. Ray Walston frequently points this fact out on the show.Also as the Devil in Damn Yankees, Walston possesses extraterrestrial like powers as he does in My Favorite Martian which in my opinion made him perfect for the part.I looked at some of the commentaries, and I did not notice anyone seeing this similarity of character.I would welcome any thoughts on what I think.

Aldanoli During its first two seasons on the air, "My Favorite Martian" often really *did* seem like the story of a Martian anthropologist providing insights into human society. In "We Love You, Miss Pringle" (the show's finest episode), for example, Uncle Martin helps convince a high school graduating class to honor Miss Pringle, one of the toughest (though hardly one of the nicest) teachers at Tim's old school. Martin used his "special abilities" to reveal that she had often helped students in trouble – but always behind the scenes. Or in "Martian Report #1," Martin decided to "study" a little orphan girl because Martian children have no "childhood" -- but when she learned about this and was hurt by it, he was forced to confront that she was a real person with feelings – not just a specimen.Sadly, by the third season, these "human interest" stories were largely forgotten, and each episode followed a predictable formula: in the first half of the episode, one of Martin's gadgets would wreak some kind of havoc (e.g., he accidentally exchanged his personality for that of Mrs. Brown; he shrank himself into a bottle, and had folks thinking he was a genie when it was opened; he developed a "Midas touch" and turned everything he touched into gold; and so on). The second half of the episodes were then devoted to "undoing the damage" from the first half.The worst, though, were a series of completely absurd "spy" shows "inspired" by the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." craze in which an organization called "CRUSH" battled a government agency called "TOPSEEK," with Martin and Tim caught in the middle. It was perhaps a useful "filler" idea the first time they used it, but with repetition, these episodes played like live-action cartoons. Even Ray Walston complained about the silliness of many of the third-season scripts.Despite these occasional shortcomings, though, in many ways this show was ahead of its time: apart from Superman, it was the first show to feature a main character endowed with special abilities, premiering a year before the whole boatload of such shows (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr. Terrific – not to mention the Munsters and the Addams Family) that populated television during the Sixties. Those first two seasons rarely relied on contrived "Martian havoc" to carry the episodes, and instead often had wonderful stories in which the characters acted like real people and Martin's powers or gadgets only incidentally were involved. The concluding scene in the "Miss Pringle" episode or Martin's scenes with the little girl in "Martian Report," for example, had a poignancy rarely found in what was supposed to be a comedy show.The scripts on the show were also often quite sophisticated; for example, Martin was forever telling Tim it was "no time for levity" – not "jokes," but "levity." Martin's well-developed vocabulary undoubtedly sent more than one viewer scrambling for a dictionary. And one of the few redeeming features of the last season, when Martin and Detective Brennan were always trying oneupmanship, was that they were constantly quoting Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Ben Jonson, or Edgar Allan Poe to one another.Perhaps most importantly, there was a remarkable chemistry between Bill Bixby and Ray Walston that's evident from the pilot onward. They genuinely seemed to care about one another, and that chemistry made what was otherwise a far-out premise seem, in their capable hands, completely believable. Had they stuck to the human interest stories and not gone in for gadget-driven plots, the show could have lasted a lot longer than it did.