Shawn's Meet Dave Review

2008 Movie # 75 - Meet Dave

God damn it Eddie Murphy. We know you're capable of better than this. And Norbit. And basically every movie you've made in the last forever. Except Bowfinger, Bowfinger's awesome. Did the Oscar nomination like piss you off or something? You didn't think you were worthy of it maybe and then decided to keep it from ever happening again you would make stuff like this.

Granted Meet Dave isn't quite the I want to kill myself train wreck Norbit was, it's still not good. It just barely reaches the level of tolerable. It features all the same jokes you've seen 1000 times in other, better movies....well actually you've seen them before in 1000 other, also not so good movies since they're the same fucking jokes. "Oh he's an alien so things on Earth confuse him. HA! He doesn't know how to dance and shit! Uh oh he wants to shake hands with him, the fuck is he gonna do now?!" And so on.

I can safely say that just about everyone in the cast deserves better than this, especially Elizabeth Banks. She was in Slither damn it! Everyone in Slither should be just handed gold bars at random due to their wise movie selection. I know she's not hard up for work so I really can't imagine why she would agree to do this movie. She couldn't have read the script and thought "Wow, this is unlike any movie ever." The same applies for Ed Helms. You're on the Office man! COME ON!

That's really all there is to say about this one. It's not funny, but at the same time it's not excrutiatingly bad. It won't be remembered as an epic Eddie Murphy failure such as Adventures of Pluto Nash, but only because it won't be remembered at all.

* 1/2 / 5