Burt Young, Dennis Quaid, Eddie Murphy

The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime a...( read more  read more... )nd started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A.I., this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humor. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon

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Directed by: Ron Underwood

Release Date: August 16, 2002

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DVD Release Date: December 24, 2002

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  • September 23, 2009
    oh, this was quite bad. Even the great cast couldn?t save this stupid, stooopid film.
  • July 13, 2008
    This is the largest bomb of Murphy's career (which, as you'll soon see, is saying something) and one of the biggest box office failures of all time. Written in 1985 and rewritten dozens of times by several writers, the movie sat on the shelf for two years after filming wrapped be...( read more)fore finally offering itself to the public in 2002. It landed with a resounding thud. The production budget was more than $100 million. The movie grossed less than $5 million domestically. Ouch. The film has a terrific supporting cast, including Rosario Dawson, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese and Jay Mohr. The premise concerned Murphy's character searching the universe for the culprit who destroyed his intergalactic nightclub. A repeated joke in the trailer about Hillary Clinton's face being on American currency sealed the deal. Nothing about the film was funny and it was a terrible idea to begin with.
  • February 3, 2008
    Incomprehensible, unfunny, and has the distinction of being the biggest bomb of all-time. How Murphy recovered from a debacle like this is a testament to his popularity.
  • July 13, 2007
    Another God terrible film by Eddie Murphy who onces again wastes his talents for what else but a pay check
  • November 18, 2006
    Don't even bother.
  • November 11, 2009
    This is a sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy. I will admit that there are some funny scenes in this and some solid F/X to help out the movie. The story itself is kind of weak. Eddie Murphy seemed to be trying to hard to make a very funny film. Still not as bad as some people say...( read more). If it is on television or your a big time Eddie Murphy fan then you might want to watch this.
  • October 20, 2009
    So bad it's a must see.
  • August 23, 2009
    Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Why? Why? Why?
  • August 11, 2009
    This was a bad movie but not as bad as people said it was.
  • August 7, 2009
    REAL CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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August 25, 2002
Nick Schager, Matinee Magazine

A dreadfully unfunny hybrid of recycled science fiction and Eddie Murphy mugging. full review

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