The Adventures of Pluto Nash

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime and started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A.I., this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humor. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon

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Set on the moon in the year 2087, the action/adventure comedy "Pluto Nash" stars Eddie Murphy as the title character, an audacious nightclub owner who finds himself in hot water when he refuses to sell his club to the local mob.

Customer Reviews:

The Movie is Kick!.......2007-08-18

Granted the film is not state of the art sci-fi, it does have many funny scenes with a good story line and yes, some cornball stuff. It pokes fun at the hard core space films using robots and updating robots. It is a fun film not a film for serious film critics or hitech sci-fi fans. The film is clean of language and sex that is all too common in today's films and, the film does not really need them.

If you are looking for a non-typical fun film to kick back and watch, Pluto Nash can be just good clean fun.

Good kid movie.......2006-11-11

The DVD was delivered quickly. I bought it because I thought that my son would enjoy it and he loves the movie.

I thought it was good..........2006-09-23

Although this movie doesn't depict the Eddie Murphy we all might think, if you put your expectations of Eddie aside and just watch the movie, it's actually pretty good. I wouldn't say it was my favorite Sci-Fi Comedy movie, but I'm tired of people giving it a bad rap just because they focus on Eddie Murphy doing something "different" than what they expect.

If you want to watch this movie because you loved "Eddie Murphy Raw" then maybe you shouldn't watch it...however, if you want to laugh at light-hearted humor, then I think it's definitely worth the watch.

Makes the Fifth Element look like Citizen Kane........2006-07-03

Just a horrendous movie. A flop of the highest order..luckily for Rosario Dawson no one watched this monstrosity or she would have never landed another role.

How Eddie Murphy ended up in this position boggles the mind. Once such an edgy and brilliant comedian and he is doing grade A Trash like this?

Just awful on all levels.

This is what Sci-Fi comedies are all about!.......2006-04-08

OK, first of all, I have to qualify my point of view: get this-- I am a huge fan of good, funny sci-fi flicks. I have to shake my head and wonder what the f*^k those folks that bashed this movie were expecting? I mean really. I was expecting (hoping for) complete silliness. This delivers nonsense in great heaps. If you are an Eddie Murphy fan, then this is Eddie at his most absurd! If you liked the Fifth Element, this is even better! The effects are great, the chick is FINE, and the jokes are non-stop. I laughed out loud I don't know how many times.
For those of you that gave this anything less than four stars, I say you are doing the rest of us a disservice. You should watch films that are more suited to your tastes. Geez!

Average customer rating:

The Movie is Kick!
Good kid movie
I thought it was good...
Makes the Fifth Element look like Citizen Kane.
This is what Sci-Fi comedies are all about!

The Adventures of Pluto Nash [Region 2]
Starring: Eddie Murphy , Randy Quaid , Rosario Dawson , Joe Pantoliano , and Jay Mohr
Director: Ron Underwood
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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