Meet Dave
Headline: ** Comic Mixture **
Title: MEET DAVE
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: VV
Sex: None
Nudity: N
RATING: PG
RELEASE: July 11, 2008
TIME: 90 minutes
STARRING: Eddie Murray, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Banks, Austyn Lind Myers, Ed Helm, and Scott Caan
DIRECTOR: Brian Robbins
PRODUCERS: Marc Turletaub, Todd Komarnicki, David Friendly, and Jon Berg
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: None
WRITERS: Rob Greenberg and Bill Corbett
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox
CONTENT: (Pa, RoRo, BB, C, PC, Ho, LL, VV, N, AA, M) Light eclectic pagan worldview with strong Romantic themes, strong moral and redemptive elements with a Christian reference that include a couple positive acknowledgements of God and asking for God's help, plus some politically correct homosexual content when a side character turns effeminate, which adds to the movie's Romantic themes; two obscenities, 11 light profanities (such as "My God"), some toilet humor in two scenes; sometimes slightly strong comic violence and action violence such as humanistic android spaceship lands face down in dirt, android spaceship hit by car which knocks one foot sideways, man knocked out by baseball, police shoot at android spaceship, spaceship fires lasers in police station which destroy walls and objects, scared man kicks a cat hard, tiny people almost squashed by large speeding cars, tiny people washed away by liquids going down throat of android spaceship; no sex scenes but couple kisses passionately in park and a side character acts in an effeminate manner in several scenes; partial rear male nudity in one scene and upper male nudity in another scene; alcohol use and apparent drunkenness; no smoking or drugs; and, aliens make money to pay for things, aliens want to take ocean salt from earth, alien crew stages a mutiny, and comment is made about heterosexual men not dancing very well.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children to adults
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SUMMARY: MEET DAVE stars Eddie Murphy as the tiny captain of a human-sized spaceship designed to look like him, on a mission to drain earth's oceans of all their salt. Eddie Murphy gives one of his funniest, most winsome performances, but some Romantic themes and an effeminate character spoil the movie's humor and its uplifting moments.
IN BRIEF:
MEET DAVE stars Eddie Murphy as the tiny captain of a human-sized spaceship designed to look like him. Coming from the Planet Nil, the spaceship's mission is to blend in among human beings on earth to search for a powerful orb that can drain earth's oceans of salt to bring energy to Nil. The captain discovers that the boy of a pretty young widow has found the orb encrusted with meteorite dirt. He also discovers that a school bully has taken it. As the boy helps the talking spaceship find the bully with the orb, the captain becomes sympathetic to the earthlings. Will he change his mind about destroying their oceans? Complicating his decision is that his crew has become infected with powerful emotions because of their contact with humans.
There are many funny jokes in MEET DAVE. The movie also has some heartwarming, touching, morally uplifting moments. Eddie Murphy gives one of his funniest, most winsome performances. During the second half of the movie, however, the worldview turns Romantic, which includes one crew member acting like an effeminate homosexual. MEET DAVE also has light scatological humor and light foul language.
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