‘Imagine That’ another Murphy clunker

Director: Karley Kirkpatrick

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Nicole Ann Parker, Thomas Hayden Church

Cert: PG

Maybe it’s the fact that it’s an Eddie Murphy film that makes this reviewer dislike it so, but there’s also the fact that it just isn’t any good, based as it is on a poorly written script for ill-constructed characters.

It tries hard to be a cute, family-friendly story, but none of it manages to click together.

Murphy – playing the serious role rather than the funny one – is a struggling financial guru more interested in his job than in his seven-year-old daughter (Shahidi) who escapes into a fantasy world of imaginary friends … who happen to pass on useful financial tips to dad.

His business rival, played by a wasted Church, is a daft character much given to quoting obscure Native American nonsense for reasons that have no relevance to anything else going on.

Murphy quite simply doesn’t make good films any more.

Star Rating: 1/5