when i saw that mike nichols be make another picture and i be automatically interested . after make motion picture like the graduate and who afraid of virginia woolf and he have slip severely and make only a couple decent film since . so and naively and i go to what planet be you from to find out if he could stem the tide of failure . and and triumphantly and i leave the motion picture with an answer represent no and no and no . if what planet be you from . succeed at anything ( and that a big if ) and it do succeed at have a surprisingly talented cast and crew and for what otherwise represent a make for usa motion picture . star garry shandling and annette bening and greg kinnear and and ben kingsley and i expect something decent and at least from the last three . but and they all disappoint me . the story of what planet be you from be a one gag premise represent garry shandling play an alien who have be send to earth to impregnate a woman and thereby allow his alien race to reproduce and slowly take over earth . that end up be the entire story . never any twist and never anything clever that the beginning of the film indicate . the film open with thousand of the alien be teach what human woman be like and provide the only legitimate laugh of the entire film . then and shandling be send to earth and bumbles around and meet the sleazy greg kinnear and who take him to aa meeting to meet woman . he meet annette bening and who seem to be phone in her performance a a recover alcoholic or real estate agent . she insist on marry before have sex and and so the alien marry her . all through this point and every time the alien have try to reproduce and his mechanical genitals make a whirring noise . apparently and this pass for humor and because nichols depend on this noise for about 30 minute of the film . then and they marry and they try to have child and be frustrate and and eventually she give birth . then and the baby be kidnap by kingsley ( the leader of shandling planet ) and and the alien return to steal it back and set up a trite end and give the audience a merciful stay of execution . the film be a massive disappointment from everyone involve and and i give it half out of 5 star .