Meet Dave

Name: Meet Dave
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Romance, Family
Released: July 11, 2008
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks

2008

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MEET DAVE

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 11, 2008

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks

Summary: Dave Ming Chang, newly arrived in New York City, may be the ultimate fish out of water. There's something about him that's not quite right - for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: "Dave" is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain. It'sDave Ming Chang, newly arrived in New York City, may be the ultimate fish out of water. There's something about him that's not quite right - for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: "Dave" is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain. It's little Eddie in the BIG family comedy Meet Dave. (20th Century Fox)

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Director: Brian Robbins

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Romance, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 90 min

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TV Guide Magazine - Ken Fox

Aside from some unnecessarily crude stereotypes, Eddie Murphy's least-painful comedy in years has a certain peculiar charm. Read full review

Philadelphia Inquirer - Carrie Rickey

Meet Dave isn't great, but it's good enough. And it proves once again that Murphy can do anything - even a PG comedy in which he isn't a donkey. Read full review

Salon - Stephanie Zacharek

It's a good-natured if flimsy comedy that, at the very least, suggests that Murphy hasn't completely lost whatever made him funny in the first place. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow

More palatable than "Norbit" but equally uninspired, Murphy's benign, pedestrian Meet Dave mostly gives us "Mr. Ed," with a bit of Crazy Eddie mixed in. Read full review

The A.V. Club - Keith Phipps

Proven comic talents like Judah Friedlander and Ed Helms make up much of Murphy's crew, but apart from speaking in contraction-free spaceman-ese, the film doesn't give them anything funny to do. Read full review

Washington Post - Ann Hornaday

The kind of bland, generic, high-concept midsummer comedy that drives a critic to the thesaurus in search of new ways to say "vapid." Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Marjorie Baumgarten

After his disastrous outing in 200X with "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," there was no direction for Murphy to head but up in terms of another space alien movie. Indeed, Meet Dave is a step up, but that's only in relation to Pluto Nash. Read full review

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UnknownUnknown

Jul 11, 2008

Good comedy by my favorite actor Eddie Murphy. I found only his acting was good, but i felt the effects could have been made better. Overall i like it.

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LisD.

Jul 9, 2008

Made me laugh.

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jelenabiebs31

Jan 21, 2016

A load of great actors and actresses. Dave is seriously funny. I'm about to watch it again.

Watch it online for free: https://www.primewire.ag/watch-545-Meet-Dave-online-free

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Jmsbpp

Aug 5, 2013

es entretenida pero no del todo convincente para mas clificacion me quede en un 4.6 pero no alcanza a un cinco porque falta aun mas para algo mas expansivo en la comedia, pero sin embargo es muy poco ridiculo es algo pasajero que se intento aprovechar

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ChadS.

Jul 13, 2008

Most New Yorkers aren't the trusting sort. Most New York moms would be hesitant about leaving their sons home alone with a stranger they barely knew. After hitting a brother from another planet with her car, Gina Morrison(Elizabeth Banks) discerns nothing at all peculiar about his Most New Yorkers aren't the trusting sort. Most New York moms would be hesitant about leaving their sons home alone with a stranger they barely knew. After hitting a brother from another planet with her car, Gina Morrison(Elizabeth Banks) discerns nothing at all peculiar about his "coincidental" materialization across her apartment window, or the fact that he's injury-free, without a trace of bloody muss on his body and natty attire. "Meet Dave" is a comedy, but a comedy needs some semblance of realism in order for the farcial circumstances to provoke unstrained laughter from the audience. In Ron Howard's "Splash", the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah may act unusual, but not unusual enough to try our patience. Even when "Madison" shatters all the lobster tanks as she says her name using the aquatic parlance(right then and there, the Tom Hanks character should recognize that the girl isn't human), we permit the film some leeway, because the mermaid had seemed human enough to our satisfaction. That's why "Meet Dave" doesn't work. Dave's behavior is so erratic, the mother should either drive this odd behaving man to a hospital for a full psychiatric evaluation, or stay far, far, far away. She seems stupid. And stupid people are anathemic to comedy. An even bigger mess posited by the film's refusal to enmesh the fantastical in a lifelike milieu, are the aliens themselves, who seem suitably human before they supposedly acquire our cultural and social norms. The only flash of wit on display in "Meet Dave" is the alien's Chinese surname, in conjunction with the spoof for Nike's "I am Tiger Woods" television advert(the one where people of all colors claimed to be Eldrick). Like Dave, Woods is not completely black(he's actually 1/2 Asian, 1/4 Black, and 1/4 American Indian), even though the golfing phenom is marketed like he was a brother from another planet.… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Jan 10, 2016

Like Disney's second Shaggy Dog remake, this is another one of Brain Robbins' movies we find him better for. Even though the backtalk is not acceptable here, but really.

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Caleb

Jul 1, 2008

Annoying.

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