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Before
I left for the theater, I hit up IMDb for the show times of this
movie, and right across from the
listing for Pluto Nash, was Austin Powers. I
couldn't help but see the likeness in those names. I hoped the
movie would be original
and entertaining. Afterall, Eddie Murphy, the man, was the main
star! You couldn't go wrong, could
you? Well, something during the production
went terribly wrong. This movie may have been original-- I mean
has their ever been a movie about a
night club on the moon?-- but it was by no
means entertaining.
Again, this movie takes place on the moon. About 80 years from
now. 2080, where Hillary
Clinton is on the 10,000 dollar bill, and space suits look
even dorkier than they did in cheap
sci-fi films that get laughed at on Mystery
Science Theater 3000. That's right, I wanna know who the costume
design was...Wait, why don't I go
check IMDb right now? Be right back. Okay, I'm
back. 5 minutes to me, but only one second to you. Shepherd
Frankel is the Art
Director. I couldn't find a costume designer. Perhaps this was the
problem?
The movie is about this guy, Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy), who bails
out a friend (Jay Mohr)
from a pickle and takes over his bar. He turns this crappy,
filthy, ghost town of a bar, into a very popular night club and
thus rids himself of all
the debts he assumed when he helped out his friend. And
what happens to people when they
become successful? Other people want to buy them
out, that's what! Meet Mogan (Joe Pantolino). He wants to buy Club
Pluto for 10 million. Pluto says no
deal. And you just know that this wouldn't
be a movie if Mogan could take no for an answer!
This movie is not entirely unfunny, but for the most part, it's
boring and stereotypical.
Eddie Murphy has some great moments, one of them looking like
a rip-off of the Nutty Professor,
but still pretty funny. Randy Quaid and Jay Mohr
also add some humor. Actually, Randy Quaid does the best comical
job of them all. I mean,
his role is critic proof! "What do you mean I looked
lifeless and made out of
cardboard?! I was playing a robot!"
Alas, those few funny moments aren't enough to save this picture.
The movies only attempt
at a heroine completely hits a brick wall and fails. Rosario,
show some backbone! When your
friend just gets attacked from behind, don't throw
up your hands and look pitiful. Get you skinny self to his
defense! So sexist....
Avoid this movie at all costs.
Eddie, I love ya, but no sequels please!
-- James
( 1 1/2 out of 4 pops )
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Billy Ray ( 0 out of
4 pops )
After seeing "Simone",
I had another film I could choose to see, and it came down between this
film or "Blue
Crush".
I really didn't care about seeing a surfing flick at the time, so I put
my faith in Eddie Murphy and went to see "Pluto Nash"--the
worst Eddie Murphy movie ever and one of the worst films of the year.
I didn't laugh a single time in this film and came very close to walking
out halfway through. I don't know why Eddie would have agreed to
make this piece of crap, but he must have really needed the money.
I expect this one to bomb at the box office, as it certainly should, and
I hope this isn't the sign of things to come for the usually funny
Murphy. Some films defy explanation and this film would be a
sterling example. Eddie Murphy should hire a new agent and Pluto
Nash should burn in hell.
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