Meet Dave (Blu-ray) PG
There's a whole other world going on inside of him.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 25, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eddie Murphy & Elizabeth Banks | |
Performer: | Austyn Lind Myers, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms & Kevin Hart | |
Directed by | Brian Robbins | |
Screenwriting by | Rob Greenberg & Bill Corbett | |
Composition by | John Debney | |
Produced by | Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki & David T. Friendly | |
Director of Photography: | Clark Mathis | |
Executive Production by | Arnon Milchan & Thomas M. Hammel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
This is made-for-TV material dressed up by Eddie Murphy's participation into a theatrical release.
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ReelViews
Even in C-movie junk like this, Murphy manages to wring a few laughs out of the material. But the humor is so broad it barely fits onto the screen.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 2/6 --
Even for a high-concept, lowbrow summer release Meet Dave is drab, shoddy work.
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Time Out
Rating: B- --
I'm sure a more refined filmmaker could've squeezed the premise tighter for sophisticated laughs, but as family-angled sci-fi comedies go, Dave is actually quite agreeable. Who knew Murphy still had some fun left in him?
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BrianOrndorf.com
Murphy makes his face a blank slate....There's a hint of deviltry in his stone-featured Buster Keaton gaze....Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Meet Dave alone may not radically change the course of Eddie Murphy's drooping career. But it is, at least, a little olive branch held out to his audience. And that's better than Nil.
Salon.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...one could certainly do much worse as far as Murphy's family-friendly output goes.
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Product Description:
Actor-turned-director Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES, THE PERFECT SCORE) is at the helm of comedian Eddie Murphy's alien adventure, MEET DAVE. Murphy stars as the minuscule captain of an alien spaceship that lands on Earth in the shape of a human being that looks just like him. The tiny crew is responsible for making the spaceship look and act like a human being as they search for a powerful orb that went off course and landed in Manhattan. Along the way, the captain--aka Dave--is befriended by Josh (Austyn Lind Myers), a fifth-grade boy who is being raised by his artist mother, Gina (Elizabeth Banks), since the death of his heroic Naval officer father. Although Dave and his crew land on Earth believing that the human race is inferior, they soon realize that there is something to be said for emotions, feelings, and friendship.
The fun in this film lies in watching the spaceship Murphy try to assimilate as a human. His exaggerated facial expressions are priceless, and his skill at physical comedy is apparent throughout the film. Dave is a sponge soaking up everything around him. The crew's attempts to understand human culture are also amusing, as they get most of their cultural information from Google and Yahoo. Gabrielle Union stars as No. 3, the cultural officer, while Ed Helms is No 2., the second in command who thinks that his captain is adapting to Earth way too easily. Kevin Hart is No. 17, the crew member charged with dealing with many of the spaceship's internal functions.
The fun in this film lies in watching the spaceship Murphy try to assimilate as a human. His exaggerated facial expressions are priceless, and his skill at physical comedy is apparent throughout the film. Dave is a sponge soaking up everything around him. The crew's attempts to understand human culture are also amusing, as they get most of their cultural information from Google and Yahoo. Gabrielle Union stars as No. 3, the cultural officer, while Ed Helms is No 2., the second in command who thinks that his captain is adapting to Earth way too easily. Kevin Hart is No. 17, the crew member charged with dealing with many of the spaceship's internal functions.
Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
There's something that makes Dave stand out from everyone else in New York City. It's that he's an alien! More accurately, he's an alien ship, on a mission to Earth to save his home planet. Torn between the voices in his head - a tiny alien crew led by a high-strung, miniature version of himself - and the world around him, Dave struggles to appear normal. But when he falls for an Earth woman, the consequences are hilarious in this "cleverly conceived... comedy" with plenty of laughs for all ages."