- Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano
- Directors: Ron Underwood
- Writers: Neil Cuthbert
- Producers: Bruce Berman, Cami Bourquin, Frank Capra III, Louis A. Stroller, Martin Bregman
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- VHS Release Date: 10 Mar 2003
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000087I2V
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,474 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 humour. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Current holder of the title biggest flop in film history (budget in excess of $100m, worldwide gross under $8m), The Adventures of Pluto Nash isn't the worst film ever made but it is one that leaves you wondering why they ever bothered, let alone why anyone ended up spending over $100m and two years in post-production on it. An object lesson in the perils of playing it safe, it's formulaic almost to the point of inertia, with unimaginative and mechanical action scenes and, as you'd expect from the presence of a cameo from John Cleese, a man who hasn't been funny since 1988, few visible sign of any jokes in the film. What attempts at wit there are can be found in the production design, though Hilary Clinton's face on dollar bills has now passed its sell-by date. The look is half TV-movie, half-Total Recall (the flatter scenes and one major plot twist), but despite the 12 years the script spent in Development Hell it almost feels like Moon Zero Two with a bigger budget but without the laughs. The pluses are minor: Randy Quaid makes more of his role as Eddie Murphy's robot bodyguard than there is in the script, Rosario Dawson is easy on the eye and John Powell's score is good, but I doubt any of them includes this on their showreel. Rather than spectacularly bad, it's just utterly mundane, destroying Tremors director Ron Underwood's movie career without even leaving a good looking cinematic corpse like other colossal money losers like Cutthroat Island or Hudson Hawk. Not unwatchable, merely pointless.
Minimal extras include 4 deleted scenes, trailer, music video and featurette - on the making of the music video since no-one seem to want to talk about the film when it finally escaped.
Minimal extras include 4 deleted scenes, trailer, music video and featurette - on the making of the music video since no-one seem to want to talk about the film when it finally escaped.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Not Eddie Murphy at his absolute best (I liked him more in Beverley Hills Cop), but still very good. A well paced plot, a few laughs (including some with John Cleese), good special effects. Worth watching.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
After watching the trailer for this film it looked like it was well worth taking a look at this film as I thought it could be a sleeper, on first viewing I thought I was wrong.
I do like Eddie Murphy, but he's not the most consistent actor in Hollywood when it comes to his choice of film to make.
There are lots of faces that people will recognise, a strangely restrained Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, an unfunny role for the late great Peter Boyle and good turns by both John Cleese and Luis Guzman, plus Pam Grier who has a couple of shorts scenes too.
With the cast assembled this could and should have been a riot, but it's takes at least 10 minutes to get going, there are some good moments and I like the idea of the film, but the plot is a little thin.
Eddie Murphy plays it straight and I can't help thinking that because he's playing it straight then no one else was allowed off their leash to be funny and upstage Murphy, the stars must have realised that this was just not funny enough to be a comedy as most of them just go through the motions, the only people with any real enthusiasm in their performances were Cleese and Guzman, but they were not in the film enough to have any real impact on proceedings.
After watching this a second time I'd say don't go into it thinking it's a comedy, there are some fun bits and laughs to be had here there's no doubt about that, in a way it reminds me of The Princess Bride, an adventure that's fun to watch, but not full of laughs, but has it's moments all the same, plus this is set in space.
Maybe worth renting before any potential purchase, after my first viewing I'd have given this 2 stars, the second now gets 3, now that I know what to expect maybe it'll go to a 4 next time?, a good little film and a nice bit of fun and adventure.
I do like Eddie Murphy, but he's not the most consistent actor in Hollywood when it comes to his choice of film to make.
There are lots of faces that people will recognise, a strangely restrained Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, an unfunny role for the late great Peter Boyle and good turns by both John Cleese and Luis Guzman, plus Pam Grier who has a couple of shorts scenes too.
With the cast assembled this could and should have been a riot, but it's takes at least 10 minutes to get going, there are some good moments and I like the idea of the film, but the plot is a little thin.
Eddie Murphy plays it straight and I can't help thinking that because he's playing it straight then no one else was allowed off their leash to be funny and upstage Murphy, the stars must have realised that this was just not funny enough to be a comedy as most of them just go through the motions, the only people with any real enthusiasm in their performances were Cleese and Guzman, but they were not in the film enough to have any real impact on proceedings.
After watching this a second time I'd say don't go into it thinking it's a comedy, there are some fun bits and laughs to be had here there's no doubt about that, in a way it reminds me of The Princess Bride, an adventure that's fun to watch, but not full of laughs, but has it's moments all the same, plus this is set in space.
Maybe worth renting before any potential purchase, after my first viewing I'd have given this 2 stars, the second now gets 3, now that I know what to expect maybe it'll go to a 4 next time?, a good little film and a nice bit of fun and adventure.
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Don't buy it for the laughs, buy it for the sheer style
I wouldn't call this a "nearly laughless comedy," but it isn't Eddie Murphy's funniest movie. Plot-wise, it's a bit on the thin side, and if you've read the other reviews, you... Read more
Published on 10 May 2008 by Beedo Sookcool
YET ANOTHER EDDIE FILM
NOT HIS BEST BUT I LIKE HIM ANY WAY,
IF YOU ARE INTO EDDIE THEN YOU WILL LIKE IT .
IF NOT STAY CLEAR
IF YOU ARE INTO EDDIE THEN YOU WILL LIKE IT .
IF NOT STAY CLEAR
Published on 23 Nov 2005 by "daznlis"
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