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- ComedySci-FiAdventure
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Meet Dave, 2008
English
USA
Profile of Meet Dave
The mood of Meet Dave is humorous. The plot centers around benign aliens, disorder, and escapades. It features slapstick humor and silly humor. Meet Dave is a comedy, sci-fi, and adventure movie. In approach, it is fantastical. It takes place, at least partly, on a spacecraft. Meet Dave is set in New York. It happens in contemporary times.
Summary of Meet Dave
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 July 2008 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dave Ming Cheng / The Captain
as Gina Morrison
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com
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- by: Stephanie Zacharek
Variety
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- by: Joe Leydon
