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4.8/10   11,784 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Rob Greenberg (written by) &
Bill Corbett (written by)
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Release Date:
11 July 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave more
Plot:
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman. full summary | full synopsis
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3 nominations more
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Eddie Murphy: a defence
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 27 November 2009, 9:43 AM, PST)

Eddie Murphy’s Return To R-Rated Comedy To Be ‘Fluffy?’
 (From Screen Rant. 20 November 2009, 3:04 PM, PST)

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Meet Eddie Murphy's last shred of dignity more (89 total)

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Also Known As:
Starship Dave (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for bawdy and suggestive humor, action and some language.
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90 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Revealing mistakes: The Captain and the crew show themselves to be utterly clueless as to cultural mores of Earth, yet - as do many Earth men - Dave's left ear is pierced. more
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[first lines]
Department of Defense worker: Dude, dude...no, I was like..."Yes, we *do* have nuclear missiles", and he was all like "No, you don't", and I was all like "Yes, we do." "Whatever." And I was like "Well, what part of 'whatever' do you not get?"
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Features It's a Wonderful Life (1946) more
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Bat Out of Hell more

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74 out of 107 people found the following comment useful.
Meet Eddie Murphy's last shred of dignity, 17 July 2008
2/10
Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois

Once upon a time, in a magical world we like to call the 1980's, Eddie Murphy was on top of his game, not only was he on top, he was actually funny! He made comedy after comedy after comedy of non stop laughs and nothing seemed like it could stop him; then the world of the 1990's came, as much as we hoped for Eddie, it seemed like he had more mediocre comedies; then the new millennium, oh, boy, his world has shattered since then. He was very lucky to have an Oscar nomination with Dream Girls, yet continued to release bad movies such as Daddy Day Care and the disaster that was Norbit, now we have Meet Dave, which would've been a good bad movie with unknown actors, but since we have well known actors, you can't help but feel bad for them, but Eddie Murphy just keeps making mistakes after mistakes and I'm just wondering what the heck was he on to think this was the script that will save his career, because I want whatever he's taking since he's in a La-La land right now.

I feel silly telling you the "plot", but I'm going to try to make it work. Dave is an alien who has crashed into Planet Earth, he has little people inside him who control his movements and voice. Dave is on a mission to gather all of the Earth's water and bring it back to his home planet. But when he meets a single mother, Gina, she shows him a good time in New York City and all of a sudden the little people wanna stay on Planet Earth. But one little alien named Agent number 2 is planning on succeeding at the mission and take over, yeah, that's the plot.

I work at a movie theater so I get to see movies for free, the way I figure it is even if a movie looks bad, just give it a shot, it may not be as bad as it seems. Now granted, this movie is one step above Norbit, that's the relief, but the major problem here is, this movie isn't even good for the kids, it insults everyone's intelligence. Now I love movies, I also have an extremely open mind and will say if a movie was fun and to give it a shot, but Eddie Murphy, we need to save him if he can't save himself, his intervention must be the biggest movie flop in the world, well, I think he's succeeding with Meet Dave. Meet Dave has 2 funny moments, then the rest of the script could have been written by 5 year old. I wouldn't recommend this, the only thing it wasted was my time.

2/10

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