usatoday.com - 7/11/2008
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But there's not much else to recommend in this banal fish-out-of-water comedy. The lackluster title hints at the dull, witless and hackneyed story. Murphy plays the captain of a Star Trek -type ship filled with miniature human-looking aliens who are far more advanced than earthlings. Apparently, they are traveling on an important mission from their planet, Nil — an appropriate name given the ...
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Eddie Murphy's shiteous new movie, Meet Dave, is getting awful reviews.
The film is so bad that he skipped out on the film's premiere earlier this week.
Time to retire!
Don't Meet Dave, Really
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... "If only the movie had heeded its own advice and tried to be different from the standard formula." USA Today "Only first-trimester zygotes will find this funny." ...
Eddie Murphy In Eddie Murphy In Eddie Murphy In... Another Really Lame Comedy [Critical Mass]
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... Me" to "Innerspace" to "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex" without the sex. Murphy's Dave is typified by a look of pop-eyed otherworldliness. Better material and more adept direction might've made this a perfectly solid commercial enterprise. As is, "Meet Dave" is imperfectly lame, and until Murphy—and other movie stars in his relative position of power—hold out for fresher goods, the multiplexes will continue to offer sporadically diverting time-wasters such as this one. USA Today : Jokes are laced with racism, homophobia and stereotypes of all stripes. Given that ...
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NONSENSE • Cher to wed Hell's Angels boy toy - Metro.co.uk • Eddie Murphy on Homeland Security watch list: He's made another bomb! - USA Today • Ernie Hudson busts the Ghostbusters - kotaku.com
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filmschoolrejects.com 7/11/2008 —
Even though I am a critic at heart, there are times when I really want to say something – anything – nice about a movie. However, films like Meet Dave make it really, really, really hard to do this.
If you haven’t heard of this movie, consider yourself lucky. After the smashing success of Pluto Nash , Eddie Murphy has been tapped for another sci-fi comedy. This time, he plays a ...
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Variety.com 7/10/2008
Film Reviews: Some cynics may expect the worst of another Eddie Murphy vehicle involving extraterrestrials -- insert joke about "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" here -- but that only makes "Meet Dave" all the more pleasant a surprise.
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Variety.com 7/11/2008
Film Reviews: Some cynics may expect the worst of another Eddie Murphy vehicle involving extraterrestrials -- insert joke about "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" here -- but that only makes "Meet Dave" all the more pleasant a surprise.
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Rolling Stone Movie Reviews 7/11/2008
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Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Judah
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