Meet Dave

Meet Dave

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Meet Dave

Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Elizabeth Banks, Judah Friedlander

A massive fireball from space hits New York's Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall...( read more  read more... ) and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with an Earth woman who's always picked losers for previous romances.

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  • July 18, 2009
    You think this might be a crappy unfunny typical Murphy family film at first, but it isn't, well not much anyway. Its actually not bad, the humor is very basic, childish and predictable but it has a certain charm, a certain something that makes it enjoyable instead of embarassing...( read more). Murphy is the same as most of his 'family films' to be honest, same facial expressions and same silly impressions which we saw awhile back, but he does do quite a nice job as a robot or spacecraft in human form.

    The concept is ok nothing too original and its all very simple looking with some really terrible effects later on in the film. The internal scenes inside Murphy are quite good, they look good and are alittle amusing in places as the crew helm the Murphy spacecraft hehe

    Very silly, very basic usual family stuff from Murphy, but it does have alittle spark of charm, genius or loveability that somehow manages to grab you, dunno how or why though haha
  • May 23, 2009
    Good kids movie but otherwise nothing special.
  • March 29, 2009
    Eddie Murphy continues his rich tradition of great films with Meet Dave. Yes, that means it sucks. It really sucks. I can't believe I watched this garbage, but I figured someone had to take one for the team.

    The film revolves around an alien spaceship that looks like Alex Foley....( read more) Inside are people about an inch and a half high with their captain also looking like Axel Foley. It starts as your typical rube in New York City story with Murphy's ship getting hit by a single mom (why Elizabeth Banks, why!?!?) and her son who also happens to be the kid that found the water sucking orb that will save their planet. The film is basically the rube story as Murphy's Captain character realizes that he can't destroy this world to save his own.

    Meet Dave is ridiculous as hell. I'm not talking about the little people alien aspects of the film, I'm talking about the piss poor writing from Rob Greenberg and Bill Corbett. I'm checking to see if they're in the 2nd grade- no, but Corbett worked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. What the hell did they run out of movies and needed another piece of garbage to trash? Two examples that stick out for me are the stereotypes. A black crewmember on the S.S. Murphy hears hip hop and suddenly transforms into a jive talking gangster. The second crew member sees thirty seconds of A Chorus Line and suddenly becomes a homosexual. Hopefully none of them saw this film because they would be suddenly transformed into bad film makers and actors.

    Eddie Murphy plays the schtick that he's played in countless crappy family films over the last fifteen years. I heard that he was going to retire from acting and go back to stand up. I would be hilarious to see this kids growing up with Father Knows Best Eddie Murphy watching a sequel to Eddie Murphy Raw- including the jump suit! The rest of the cast are typical over actors because it's supposed to be funny. It's not funny. It's overacting you goofs.

    Director Brian Robbins' career is filled with tons of mindless crap that Hollywood loves to shove down our throats. He must work cheap, especially after last years masterpiece Norbit (I'm not willing to take that one for the team).

    If given a choice between Meet Dave and a colonoscopy, I would have to think about it. At least you get drugged during the colonoscopy. Or I would just watch a superior film with the same sort of story called Innerspace.
  • February 16, 2009
    I have no idea why this flop. This was a great family movie
  • January 10, 2009
    Eddie Murphy teams up again with Brian Robbins. Their previous work was "Norbit". His performance in that film pretty much made him lose the Academy Award...

    In "Norbit", Eddie Murphy has no fat suit. He plays the captain of a spaceship that looks like him. Ok, normally I would ...( read more)not watch a film with this kind of synopsis but I gave it a shot. Actually, "Meet Dave" had its moments.

    The film is filled with gags. The story is thin, almost harmless with the obvious storyline of an alien race learning about the human culture etc. The gags mostly base on this. Mix in a bit of love and there you have it... "Meet Dave".

    The film had me laugh out loud a couple of times. In overall, the film is a harmless, brainless, somewhat funny film, but it woun't last multiple viewings.
  • December 16, 2009
    much better than was told, I thought; good top 8 cast
  • December 14, 2009
    This turned out to be pretty good.. One of the best bits was to see that the aliens used Google to come up with how Dave should respond. To comic effect. Eg. when told that the "earth women" would be cooking meatlouf the Google search that Dave and his team of aliens did came up ...( read more)with the band.

    Good to watch if you want a good laugh.
  • December 9, 2009
    this movie was HILAROUS!!!!!
  • December 9, 2009
    I keep giving Murphy chances, and he keeps me hanging on. While I, like most, miss the old days of raw Eddie, "Meet Dave" is probably the best of his post-'The Nutty Professor' low-brow family comedy period. The concept is clever enough and Eddie has fun playing Dave as an idiot....( read more) Ed Helms has a modest breakthrough, and Elizabeth Banks is once again hot enough to keep my attention, though I'd like to see her play a multi-dimensional character sometime in the future. It's not all her fault - there aren't many good roles being written for women these days.
  • December 3, 2009
    Eddie Murphy isn't funny anymore.

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