Leonard Part 7
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:4
Rotten:68
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: Despite its exorbitant budget, The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a listless, desperate sci-fi romp that lacks both energy and wit.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $4,366,829
Synopsis:
Welcome to the Moon 2087. With all the natural resources mined out years ago, the Moon has become the new Wild West. A place where money and the right contacts can get you anything you want and...
Welcome to the Moon 2087. With all the natural resources mined out years ago, the Moon has become the new Wild West. A place where money and the right contacts can get you anything you want and anything goes.
"The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is an action/adventure comedy set on the moon in the year 2087, starring EDDIE MURPHY as the title character, Pluto Nash, an audacious, successful owner of the hottest nightclub in town. Pluto finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to Mogan (JOE PANTOLIANO), the lunar gangster that is helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
Joining Nash in the danger and lunacy are Dina Lake (ROSARIO DAWSON), a beautiful earthling who has traveled to the moon to further her singing ambitions, and Pluto's bodyguard Bruno (RANDY QUAID) - a robot quickly approaching obsolescence. Rounding out the cast are Rowland (PETER BOYLE), a pool shark and Pluto's confidant; Flura (PAM GRIER), Pluto's mother; and Tony Francis (JAY MOHR), Pluto's friend and an Italian singing sensation.
Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment presents, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" which stars EDDIE MURPHY ("Shrek"), RANDY QUAID ("Independence Day"), ROSARIO DAWSON ("Men In Black II"), JOE PANTOLIANO ("The Matrix"), JAY MOHR ("Jerry Maguire"), LUIS GUZMÁN ("Traffic"), JAMES REBHORN ("Meet the Parents"), PETER BOYLE ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), BURT YOUNG ("Mickey Blue Eyes"), MIGUEL A. NUNEZ, JR. ("Juwanna Mann"), PAM GRIER ("Jackie Brown") and JOHN CLEESE ("The World Is Not Enough").
"The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is directed by RON UNDERWOOD ("Mighty Joe Young"), from a screenplay written by NEIL CUTHBERT ("Mystery Men"). The film is produced by MARTIN BREGMAN ("The Bone Collector"), MICHAEL BREGMAN ("The Bone Collector") and LOUIS A. STROLLER ("The Bone Collector"). The executive producer is BRUCE BERMAN ("Analyze This").
OLIVER WOOD ("Mighty Joe Young") is the director of photography. BILL BRZESKI ("As Good As It Gets") is the production designer. PAUL HIRSCH, A. C. E. ("Star Wars") and ALAN HEIM, A.C.E. ("All that Jazz") are the editors. HA NGUYEN ("The Nutty Professor") is the costume designer. FRANK CAPRA III ("Story of Us") and MICHAEL KLAWITTER ("The Bone Collector") serve as co-producers. JOHN POWELL ("Face/Off.") is the composer. NICK DAVIS ("Entrapment") is the visual effects supervisor and the late MARY COLQUHOUN ("Legends of the Fall") served as the casting director.
"The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is a presentation of Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment. The film will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.
Castle Rock Entertainment is an AOL Time Warner Company.
This film has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "violence, sexual humor and language."
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese
Director: Ron Underwood
Director: Ron Underwood
Screenwriter: Neil Cuthbert
Producer: Martin Bregman, Louis A. Stroller, Michael Bregman
Composer: John Powell
Studio: Warner Bros.
Reviews for The Adventures of Pluto Nash
A dreadfully unfunny hybrid of recycled science fiction and Eddie Murphy mugging.
By never deciding what it wants to be -- wacky comedy or action thriller -- this film fails miserably on both fronts.
The screenplay from Neil Cuthbert feels lackadaisical in his hands and loses its playfulness early on.
May be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since Town and Country.
It’s not only dull because we’ve seen [Eddie] Murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed.
It might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a Three's Company-style laugh track.
Despite the long shelf time and the staggering amount of money lost, this is not one of the all-time cinematic disasters.
Never achieving comedic, satiric, or adventure serial heights, Pluto Nash has nowhere to go, and it doesn’t even care.
The last time Murphy played a nightclub owner, we got Harlem Nights, which was actually better.
The great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses %u2013 and ours %u2013 and retitle it The Adventures of Direct-to-Video Nash, and send it to its proper home.
This ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it.
Despite the premise of a good story ... it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles.
A listless sci-fi comedy in which Eddie Murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect.
Even Murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort.
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