Maybe you loved this movie as a teen and want to share it. Maybe your kid is obsessed with 80s aesthetics (hello, Stranger Things generation). Or maybe it popped up on a streaming service and the cast list caught your eye—after all, Jim Carrey and Jeff Goldblum are household names now.

The film sits in that weird space of being "old enough to be retro" but not quite classic cinema. It's got musical numbers, physical comedy, and a visual style that's either delightfully kitschy or aggressively dated, depending on your tolerance for day-glo everything.

The Rating Situation
Earth Girls Are Easy is rated PG, which feels wild by today's standards. This was peak late-80s PG, before PG-13 really found its footing. What does that mean practically? It means there's content here that would absolutely earn a PG-13 today, maybe even pushing toward R.

Sexual Content
This is the big one. The movie has significant sexual content and innuendo throughout. We're talking:

There's a scene in a nightclub that's essentially a extended music video about hookup culture. Another involves the aliens learning about human attraction in ways that are played for comedy but are definitely not subtle.

Other Content Concerns

The Vibe
This is a sex comedy wrapped in a musical wrapped in sci-fi wrapping paper. It's not explicit, but sexuality is the engine driving most of the plot and humor.

Not for younger kids (under 13): Hard pass. The sexual content and themes are just not appropriate, regardless of the PG rating.

Ages 13-15: Probably still too much for most families. If you have a particularly mature teen and want to use this as a conversation starter about how media has changed, maybe—but know what you're getting into.

Ages 16+: This is your sweet spot if you're going to watch it at all. Older teens who understand irony and camp, who can discuss how gender and sexuality were portrayed in the 80s versus now, and who won't take it as a how-to guide for relationships.

The real question: Is this the movie you want to watch with your teen? Because the sexual content isn't just background—it's front and center, and sitting through those scenes together might range from awkward to genuinely uncomfortable.

Here's the thing: Earth Girls Are Easy is not Footloose or The Breakfast Club or even Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Those 80s classics have stood the test of time with content that, while dated in some ways, still works for family viewing with teens.

This movie is a very specific kind of 80s artifact—campy, sexually charged comedy that was trying to push boundaries even then. The PG rating is misleading by modern standards. If you loved it as a teen, remember that you probably saw it in a very different context than watching it with your teen today.

If you want 80s nostalgia with your teen, there are better options: Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, E.T., or even Ghostbusters will give you that retro vibe without the awkward couch moments.

If you're determined to watch it, wait until they're at least 16, and maybe consider whether this is a "watch separately and discuss later" situation rather than a family movie night pick.

The movie isn't harmful or traumatizing—it's just aggressively, unapologetically horny in a way that makes for uncomfortable parent-teen viewing. And honestly? That's okay to acknowledge. Not every piece of your youth needs to be shared in real-time with your kids. Sometimes nostalgia is best left to your own rewatches.