You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Brian Robbins, and I won’t have it!
Trailers can be deceptive, but they ain’t deceptive enough to mask the odious stench emanating from the cinematic offal heap now known as Meet Dave (aka Starship Dave). What more could we possibly expect from the director of Norbit, the producer of Wild Hogs and, it must be noted, the star of C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud? A two-hour loop of Bud Dwyer blowing his top? Personally, I don’t go to Brian Robbins movies because I’m deathly afraid of this happening.
But families will flock to this fucker when it opens on July 11th (against Hellboy II: The Golden Army), and kids will surely delight in Eddie Murphy’s robotized, cat-punting antics. I don’t know whether to be thankful that Murphy’s temporarily eschewed the fat-suit humor, or to simply weep at what’s become of his career. Perhaps I’ll just watch Trading Places and pretend he’s retired somewhere making man-babies with Scary Spice (and, yes, I know he’s married to Tracey Edmonds).
Meet Dave is essentially a crass reworking of Joe Dante’s classic Innerspace (which was, of course, an affectionate parody of Fantastic Voyage). Murphy stars as a flesh-and-circuit spaceship piloted by tiny aliens from an endangered planet; when the human-looking craft is taken in by a single mom (Elizabeth Banks), the wee folks’ mission is jeopardized. Romance blooms, stock comedic situations ensue, and the human spirit is wadded up and sullied like a spunk towel.
Meet Dave makes Norbit look like Kind Hearts and Coronets.
18 comments
Firstly, my penis was made to be hard the first time I saw Demons.
Secondly, Mr. Murphy needs to stop rocking the Joe Jackson 'stache.
That's all I got.
i'm waiting for eddie murphy to go the way of bill murray. he will be funny again.
I will see it to support Bill Corbett.
That movie looks two million kinds of retarded. The trailer wasn't even amusing in the slightest. Except for Elizabeth Banks, who has a pretty good track record of amusing my penis.
What the fuck was that? I feel like someone just shat up my nose after watching that.
Unless Elizabeth Banks gets anal-ysed, I do not wish for this film to blow a cock into my eye sockets. Oh, Eddie. Why man, why?!
I wish they had an intervention program for the iconic funnyman on the slide. We're here because we love you, Eddie. Put the script down. Do we have to bring out Joe Piscopo?
Movie might be terrible but the little eddie murphy waving on the poster made me laugh.
Man, I look forward to Hellboy Deuce. Man, I do NOT look forward to more of Murphy at this given point in time.
Can we sign Mike Myers up for that intervention?Talk about coasting…
I have been enjoying the last few years of Myers-free existence. I'll take a string of barely seen Eddie Murphy movies over a single over-quoted Myers movie.
no Don Piano? could Eddie fall any lower…
I really wonder what Bill Corbett's (MST3K) original script was like since there are other writing credits I am sure he got re-"written" to death.
i wouldnt say its an "interspace" type of concept, more like a herman's head, cept dudes a robot
It would be nice if one of you assholes could go one article without trying to shoehorn in some psuedoarcane pop culture reference. You're not proving yourselves to be cool or smart and you're rarely funny. Nick used to be good at this stuff. You tools aren't. You're the Troy Duffy to his QT.
'…and the human spirit is wadded up and sullied like a spunk towel'
I'm still chuckling at that.
You really have to wonder what is going on when someone who is/was obviously talented start repeatedly churning out junk like this appears to be.
Is Demons any good, I had it my hand earlier today but put it back on the shelf cause I promised myself I wouldnt blind buy anymore.
Eddie Murphy! Fuck you! Fuck you Eddie!
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