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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:18
Rotten:78
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Easy gags and slack direction drag this occasionally clever alien-out-of-planet comedy down to unimaginative lows.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 10, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $11,644,832
Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES, THE PERFECT SCORE) is at the helm of comedian Eddie Murphy's alien adventure, MEET DAVE. Murphy stars as the minuscule captain of an alien... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan
Director: Brian Robbins
Heralding a return to form for Eddie Murphy, this cleverly conceived and executed sci-fi comedy offers plenty of laughs for all ages. The considerable challenge for the filmmakers was to streamline three realities and make each one credible.
Top CriticHeralding a return to form for Eddie Murphy, this cleverly conceived and executed sci-fi comedy offers plenty of laughs for all ages.
Top CriticNot much about Meet Dave is memorable, so I'm having trouble remembering.
Top CriticMeet Dave alone may not radically change the course of Eddie Murphy's drooping career. But it is, at least, a little olive branch held out to his audience. And that's better than Nil.
I walked out of Meet Dave... I invested about 50 minutes in the film, which was more than it deserved, and then I finally gave up and left.
The worst sci-fi comedy since, well, since Eddie Murphy made The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
Meet Dave, the latest in a long line of disposable Eddie Murphy vehicles, plays like a half-hour sitcom episode that has been stretched to feature-length running time.
Top CriticRemember a time when Eddie Murphy actually used to be funny?
Contrary to appearances Meet Dave isn't terrible, with several laugh-out-loud moments funnier than anything in, say, a month.
it's got nothing to recommend it except maybe that actor in a frogman suit clinging madly to a giant uvula
I doubt many kids will follow the bit about using an orb to desalinate the earth's water, but that's just the MacGuffin of a film whose nature is to whiff across the top of a kid's head and then evaporate, which it does, leaving almost no residue.
Meet Dave is a fish-out-of-water comedy with a rather annoying fish.
Meet Dave is "Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy," literally, metaphorically, exhaustively.
Some genius work in the first act by Eddie Murphy, showing his masked technique from Klumps & others without the mask... but then a quick decline.
Wholly bland entertainment that never rises above sitcom humor.
Isn't an awful film because it's Eddie Murphy, it's awful because most of the "comedy" presented is flat, lacking in any hint of timing, and is dated by about thirty years...
This gimmicky, one-note comedy takes a well-deserved place in the pantheon of Murphy mega-bombs.
Eddie Murphy -- was that Oscar nominated performance in Dreamgirls just something I imagined? -- continues to trash his very real talent with bottomfeeding material.
With a lazy script that uses the cheapest gags and most obvious plot points, this is yet another big Hollywood movie that squanders a strong premise on a badly undercooked vanity project.
Like an awkward party guest who hopes you will be charmed by his earnest effort to overcome his lack of social graces, and just when you're on the verge ... he belches loudly and rudely - and expects you to think he's both cute and funny.
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