Would You Like to "Meet Dave" (2008)?


What's with comedians trying to do drama? or find themselves in enigmatic looking characters?  It seems like they are trying to expanding their acting performances and its note worthy that Eddie Murphy tries his luck with this.

Featuring an cast of rising stellar proportions, we can a see a lot of them new actors here while on their way of becoming famous.  We see Elizabeth Hanks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Scott Caan and Kevin Hart.

A story of a group of aliens who crash landed on earth, New York actually and to disguise themselves their spaceship is in the form of a human.  Ridiculous if you ask us but that's how their premise goes.  These aliens turned out to be small, albeit 10cms tall at best.  And they control the human figure spaceship's motor functions to assimilate into our society while they find a way to get back home.

Their home being plagued with an energy crisis.  They need all the ocean water on earth and they have a metal ball for which to drain and store it.  This ball was lost and they found it in a photo with Elizabeth Banks son.  The spaceship, then named Dave Ming Chang, piloted by Number 1 (Eddie Murphy, and yes the spaceship is also in the form of Eddie Murphy) tries to befriend Elizabeth's character in the hopes of getting back that ball.

Being aliens, Number 1 has no idea with human interactions and emotions and in the process learns a lot.  He and along with his crew comes to grips with the emotions and experienced some changes in them as well.  

Literally a fish out of water black comedy, this movie is so ridiculous that you don't have to believe the premise.  Its so far fetched that watching this film solely on this merit will make you want to change the channel or move over to the next movie in your marathon.  That being said, we liked the richness of the creativity of its writers and director for coming up with a ridiculous film such as this.  We would like to acknowledge Eddie Murphy's attempts to do something new and innovative for a change.



The whole movie is something hard for us to review with its quirkiness and all but somehow we were able to finish the movie and experience the emotions shown in the film.  It reminded us of how human we are and that aliens learned from us.  It's ridiculous right?  Aliens learning from us, wait are there really aliens?

Currently being shown in Amazon Prime.


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