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'Meet Dave' not Murphy's worst, but far from best
17/07/2008 - 20:40:30
 Director: Brian Robbins
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks
Cert: PG
Once upon a time we could look forward to a Murphy film, even when he turned out to be just as annoying as in the one before – doing his Eddie Murphy School of Acting thing – but that was a long time ago.
Here he’s not at his repulsive worst, but it still isn’t a great comic film.
He plays, wait for it, a human-shaped spaceship as well as the captain of said ship. The alien craft crash-lands in New York and its tiny inhabitants set out to explore the dubious delights of the Big Apple, realising that since they’re small they had better use the spaceship/human as their means of transport.
From then on it’s merely Murphy rolling his eyes, slapping hands and not being terribly funny at all.
A sad, sad waste of what might have been a great talent.
Star Rating: 2/5
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