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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: Blu-ray
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN num: 0024543533238
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 8345
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 11/25/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rated by buyers Pg
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Meet Dave is a family space farce with enough Eddie Murphy slapstick to make the whole family chuckle. With elements of InnerSpace, Starman, Men in Black, and even a bit of Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, the film may not break new ground, but Murphy's giddy performance lifts the material to an engaging level. Murphy plays a space ship in human form, carrying wee aliens on an excursion to earth. As 'Dave Ming Chang,' he interacts with his surroundings and fellow humans by following the orders given by the ship's commanders inside his 'head.' It's an endearing fish-out-of-water yarn that riffs of pop culture as well as potty humour for its laughs. ('Lieutenant Bottoms, what is your status?' 'Captain, we had a small gas leak. It was silent, but not deadly.')
In the course of his mission, Dave is hit by a car, becomes a substitute teacher in a New York City public school, and starts to develop feelings for earth kids--and ladies. All the while his homage to the Bee Gees, from the white suit to his high-pitch-perfect rendition of 'Stayin' Alive,' provides an oddly perfect backdrop and symbol for Dave's being ever so slightly behind the times. Murphy is engaging as always, firing off deadpan one-liners and happily being the straight man to the film's jokes. A potential love interest, Gina (Elizabeth Banks), mentions that her late husband was a captain in the Navy. Dave says, 'I am a captain.' Gina: 'Oh really? A captain of what?' Inside Dave's head, the crewmembers frantically search their earth database to give him the answer: 'I am a captain of crunch.' --A.T. Hurley
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This film is far more entertaining than I expected.
Depending on the movie I either like Eddie Murphy or can barely tolerate him. This is one of his keepers. With near perfect comedic physical humor, Murphy plays a believable space ship and ship captain. Some of the dialog is comedy gold. Murphy's robotic awakenings and learning curve are laugh out loud hilarious.
Amazingly clean with the exception of a few party scenes where the crew reacts to new stimuli including mojitos and salsa dancing. A number of crew members (the weapons expert is exposed to the Rockettes and is never the same, the tech guy finds MySpace) play out some stereotypes that tend to get annoying, but do add a bit to the story. Plenty of bodily function humor. The mostly family friendly storyline makes for some predictability.
Fans of Murphy's Daddy Day Care and Dr Doolittle and fans of Galaxy Quest should find much to like.
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Eddie Murphy is sure no chicken, he takes on parts probably against his
managers wishes. The man's got guts. I was impressed with the budget and
the quality of this project. It might not be the perfect movie, but it
was entertaining and had a good message. The effects were above average
and i like the ending.....Enjoy
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Eddie Murphy is a comic genius as he displayed in Nutty Professor. He falls way short in this movie because nothing about the movie utilized his genius. Instead, he walks around like a personality-less robot. All of his humour antics were missing, even his famous laugh.
This was NOT an Eddie Murphy movie. It was a silly movie with a dumb concept that Eddie Murphy happened to be in.
This movie would have been better as a Saturday morning show staring Miley Sirus.
It might be entertaining for 8 to 12 year olds.
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The medium of a ship which looks like a human is more original than most movies in this genre you will find. Unfortunately the overall plot is extremely simplistic and formulaic. The movie really needed some stand out laughs but was only smirkably funny. It is worth a rent, it will get you through to the end, but just barely.
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Meet Dave is definitely an under-rated film, but the question is by just how much? Certainly Eddie Murphy has made some, well let's just say 'interesting' decisions when it comes to choices of movies to do. He turned in Oscar calibre work in Dream Girls, but then took a serious dive by doing the relatively pathetic Norbert (which probably cost him the Oscar for Dream Girls). Besides Dream Girls though, just what serious, or better labeled 'quality' work would anyone really remember Murphy from over the last several years? You'd have to go back to the original 48 Hours, or Beverly Hills Cop movies to find material that would generate any sort of consensus as being 'quality work'.
Murphy has turned out some family oriented, or at least youth oriented, films in the meantime including Daddy Day Care and the like, and the audience for that film seems to be the audience that is the target for Meet Dave.
The Dave that viewers will be meeting turns out to be a space ship filled with tiny humanoids that have come to retrieve a device that was sent to gather materials for providing power in the homeworld of the space travellers. The ship just happens to look like the captain who we see in the command chair, and of course the ship also resembles an Earthling which is supposed to make it easy for the space travellers to accomplish their mission while roving the planet. Nothing could be quite so simple though as the travellers have researched Earth culture from a few different sources, none of which provide a complete and detailed enough view of the world to really help them blend in. Along the way the inhabitants of Dave learn a lot about the Earth creatures and perhaps learn a lot about themselves as well.
The movie basically bombed in theatres, and seems to be flying below the radar on Blu-ray and DVD which is somewhat sad as it would be entertaining for most families. Take a chance and at least rent it and view it with an open mind and perhaps somewhat lowered expectations, you must might find it was worth the effort.
(Note that if half-stars were possible, I'd probably put this in the 3.5 range, more down in the 3 star range. I've rated it a little higher because it has been somewhat panned and under-rated, so I'm hoping the higher rating might balance out some of the non-love it may find along the way ;-) )
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