Let's start with what was good
um, well
I got a really good parking space. Seriously. A really good parking space. And this was at The Esquire. If you've been there then you know what an accomplishment that was.
Now, on to the rest of the movie.
Not since Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow has a movie so short felt so long.
In Meet Dave a crew of tiny aliens (space not illegal) pilot a spaceship that has the form of a human. Eddie Murphy plays both Dave (the ship) and the captain of the ship. They are sent to Earth to steal our water essentially destroying our planet to save their own.
The only enjoyment that I got from this film was listing in my head all the other movies it was ripping off.
A person not totally in control of his body Liar, Liar (and for those of us over 30 All Of Me) Main character with a tin ear toward American society Coming To America Incredibly tiny characters lost in our world of "giants" Honey, I Shrunk The Kids Eddie Murphy in space Pluto Nash Eddie Murphy piloting a device that he can't completely control Best Defense Character attempting to prove that they saw an "other worldly" creature Splash A cast of wacky characters piloting a human body Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
I'd recommend turning it into a drinking game but I fear for your safety. They even trotted out the cast lip-synching to the oldies over the closing credits.
As Dave makes his way through New York City, the aliens that operate him see how wonderful humans can be and learn to give up their alien ways and become more like us. Unfortunately, "more like us" means that the "repressed black guy" became a "sassy black guy" and the "repressed gay guy" became a "sassy gay guy". Apparently there is something about our culture that brings out the stereotypes in people.
There's nothing about this movie that isn't derivative of another film. It's almost as if they took the scripts from the previously mentioned films, threw them in the air and then randomly picked up pages off the floor and incorporated them into this movie.
And, as if the movie wasn't already crass enough, early in the film there is a three minute product placement for Old Navy that has all the subtlety of a Ron Popiel infomercial.
In the ultimate irony, the movie is co-written by Bill Corbett writer and voice of Crow T. Robot on Mystery Science Theater 3000. If that show was still on the air, he could make a good living churning out dreck like this and then making fun of it on MST3K...like a snake eating its own tail.
There are other people in this film (many of them talented) but they will remain unnamed here for much the same reason that most major newspapers won't reveal the identity of rape victims.
On a "Family Friendly Eddie Murphy " scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being Nutty Professor and 1 being The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, Meet Dave gets a 3.
Now, on to the rest of the movie.
Not since Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow has a movie so short felt so long.
In Meet Dave a crew of tiny aliens (space not illegal) pilot a spaceship that has the form of a human. Eddie Murphy plays both Dave (the ship) and the captain of the ship. They are sent to Earth to steal our water essentially destroying our planet to save their own.
The only enjoyment that I got from this film was listing in my head all the other movies it was ripping off.
A person not totally in control of his body Liar, Liar (and for those of us over 30 All Of Me) Main character with a tin ear toward American society Coming To America Incredibly tiny characters lost in our world of "giants" Honey, I Shrunk The Kids Eddie Murphy in space Pluto Nash Eddie Murphy piloting a device that he can't completely control Best Defense Character attempting to prove that they saw an "other worldly" creature Splash A cast of wacky characters piloting a human body Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
I'd recommend turning it into a drinking game but I fear for your safety. They even trotted out the cast lip-synching to the oldies over the closing credits.
As Dave makes his way through New York City, the aliens that operate him see how wonderful humans can be and learn to give up their alien ways and become more like us. Unfortunately, "more like us" means that the "repressed black guy" became a "sassy black guy" and the "repressed gay guy" became a "sassy gay guy". Apparently there is something about our culture that brings out the stereotypes in people.
There's nothing about this movie that isn't derivative of another film. It's almost as if they took the scripts from the previously mentioned films, threw them in the air and then randomly picked up pages off the floor and incorporated them into this movie.
And, as if the movie wasn't already crass enough, early in the film there is a three minute product placement for Old Navy that has all the subtlety of a Ron Popiel infomercial.
In the ultimate irony, the movie is co-written by Bill Corbett writer and voice of Crow T. Robot on Mystery Science Theater 3000. If that show was still on the air, he could make a good living churning out dreck like this and then making fun of it on MST3K...like a snake eating its own tail.
There are other people in this film (many of them talented) but they will remain unnamed here for much the same reason that most major newspapers won't reveal the identity of rape victims.
On a "Family Friendly Eddie Murphy " scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being Nutty Professor and 1 being The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, Meet Dave gets a 3.