Meet Dave (2008)

The greatest movie ever!

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Meet Dave… or Don't You may find yourself faintly chuckling at the beginning of this cheesy comedy, and then quickly dozing off into a soft sleep toward the middle and through the end of the movie. Watching Meet Dave, staring Eddy Murphy, will allow you to experience Murphy's dreadful sense of humor, but the plot line gets boring immediately and the overused corny humor can annoy some to sleep. This movie is considered a combination of a comedy, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, but I would call Meet Dave a cheap comedy, too much fantasy, cliché romance, and a try hard science fiction.The 20th Century Fox movie studio released Meet Dave, directed by Brian Robbins, on July 9, 2008 in the theaters. Staring Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Hart, Scott Caan, and Ed Helms, I would rate this PG movie 4/10 stars. Little people, the size of dollhouse figures, create a robot that is human-like to come to Earth to retrieve their orb to save their own world. Meet Dave tries to incorporate too many genres into one movie, which creates an overwhelming plot line. Being filmed in the nice city of New York and California, this movie deserved a better plot line and more eventful purpose. By cramming 4 genres into one movie, Meet Dave does not have a chance to elaborate on one specific field. If the movie just focused on the science fiction topic, it may have had potential. But instead, however, romance was forced into the plot, which just made the love story predictable. The science fictional beginning of the movie made a grand entrance that caught my attention. After and orb comes flying through a young boys room and lands in his fish bowl, the next couple of month will be quite interesting for him. The scene then quickly changes from the bedroom to a man in a suit landing head first into a pile of dirt right by the Statue of Liberty. This man is robot-like and tries to copy other humans in their natural environment. I let out a few chuckles while watching this robot try to smile, shake hands, talk, roam around the city, and get launched across the road after being hit by a van. It was then revealed that this robot man, later named Dave, has little people inside of him that control his every move. They are here on Earth to retrieve their orb or their own civilization will come to an end and they only have 48 hours to do so. Everything Dave does seems sarcastic which adds slight humor. More funny scenarios happen at the beginning of the movie like when Dave drinks a bottle of ketchup and gets tangled in clothes in the dressing room. The minor comedy ends quickly when the real plot line comes into play. They begin the journey to find the orb and like any other movie, all of the people inside of the robot eventually turn on the captain for revenge. Dave, the robot, becomes friendly with the woman that hit him with her van. Of course, the captain (Eddy Murphy), who is controlling Dave, begins to actually fall for this woman (Elizabeth Banks). No. 3 (Gabrielle Union) and a worker inside the robot, becomes jealous that the captain has never noticed her before. Unoriginally, she tries to get his attention. She eventually succeeds and they live happily ever after together. The romance in Meet Dave was so common like in other movies; the guy falls for the girl he can't have, the other girl is jealous and sad, then the guy and the other girl eventually get together and fall in love.Meet Dave was so predictable and cliché, which made it enjoyable. The beginning and idea of the movie were unique and had potential with the people inside a robot on Earth. Once the same old romance and cheesy science fiction that they have to save the world was incorporated, it went down hill from there. Older people will find this comedy dumb and not entertaining. Younger kids, however, may get a kick out of it. Meet Dave is similar to the 2009 movie Mall Cop, which is also rated PG staring Kevin James. They both include stupid humor that mostly young kids would enjoy. I would, therefore, not recommend this movie to anyone over the age of 11 because of the corny comedy and romance.

It's a strange little movie and it's a little hard to believe no one would notice the aliens in some scenes. There are some obvious cgi and compositing, but if you are the type like myself that gets a kick out goofs you might actually like it anyway. As for the humor itself, I liked it and did laugh out for some parts. If you were to make-believe what an experience for tiny people would be like, the situational writing is quite good and understandable. Ed Helms is interesting to see as the uptight and funnily named Number Two and he might be a surprise to some who might not have remembered that he was in this. I'm not promising you'll like it, but perhaps if you read more on the flaws before expecting anything great, it might be more tolerable. Seems to work with me.

I know most people are hating on this movie, but I liked it! For me it was funny and well acted and very original. And while at parts I felt it was abit over board, like with the annoying guy who likes dancing and fashion and crap, who really sounds gay ( Pat Kilbane ). Most of this film were pure fun and I just found this to be a good movie. While not an award winner it was fun, original, and while the ending was lacking the rest of the film fixed that. Eddie Murphy, still has it. Even though he's slowing down and his movies are getting worse by the minute, this film still shows he ha s what it takes! The special effects are just excellent! Loved this. Great for everyone. It'll keep your children entertained for the meager 90 minutes this movie runs. Gotta say I liked it! B+

Another great kids film by Eddie Murphy! :D A funny film which has an interesting plot and is great for people of all ages My little sister loved it and laughed pretty much all the way through.I don't know how people can write bad reviews on such a great film! It may not be the most exciting film in the world but hey! it's better then most. Has some great acting by most of the cast including Elizabeth Banks and Eddie Murphy.The film had a great ending and people shouldn't listen to the negative feedback :)-Jade-