Critic Reviews

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  Is it as bad as all that? Oh yes.

• Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle

  Formulaic films are released every week, but it's rare that one has a $100 million budget, big stars whose roles are embarrassing to watch and unusual special effects that only serve to mask a predictable plot and cliche-ridden scenes.

• David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer

  A paralyzingly dopey mess, Pluto sat on the shelf for more than a year while Warner Bros. tried to inject some life into it. You might as well try to revive a stuffed moose.

• Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

  Forensics experts will be digging through the rubble of this fiasco for a long time, trying to reconstruct the accident. How did so many lines fall flat? Why were the action scenes so corny and unconvincing? Who put the stink on this?

• , Time Out

  Some diverting cameos, but Murphy struggles to keep this one grounded.

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

  Another zillion-dollar dud.

• Christopher Borrelli, Toledo Blade

  Pluto Nash will set lunar exploration back decades.

• , Daily Mail [UK]

  Murphy sleepwalks through it, and who can blame him?

• James Keith La Croix, Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

  An action-comedy vehicle factory-made from worn clichés, wearing riffs and virtually vacuum-sealed away from both adventure and laughs.

• M. K. Terrell, Christian Science Monitor

  With colossal sets, a remarkable cast, and hundreds of extras, this sci-fi comedy-adventure spoof of '30s movies should be funny and adventuresome, but it falls flat.

• , Film4

  Murphy and Underwood must have had a lot of explaining to do.

• , Total Film

  Despite being set in 2080, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash only makes you hanker for the days when Eddie Murphy really was take-no-prisoners funny.

• Nathan Rabin, AV Club

  A waste of talent and money, Pluto Nash seems convinced that simply sticking Eddie Murphy in outer space with expensive special effects will produce laughs.

• Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile

  It's a real turkey.

• Mark Halverson, Sacramento News & Review

  An abundance of noise, explosions, gunplay, chases, special effects, futuristic eye candy and star power (including John Cleese, Pam Grier and Peter Boyle) generates very little pure fun or excitement in this cluttered visit to the moon.

• Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

  worst futurama rip-off ever

• Sheila Johnston, This is London

  In his early forties, the star seems to be struggling for scripts to fit his mercurial bad-boy talent, and this very expensive space comedy won't do his seesaw career any favours.

• Nick Rogers, State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

  The movie is set in 2087, or approximately 100 years after scribe Neil Cuthbert last bothered to touch up his script.

• Aaron Hillis, Premiere Magazine

  'The proper term here is 'Battlefield Earth bad'.'

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