THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH(2002)
Ok, this is one of those movies that you really need to
watch at least twice! The first time through, I hated it!
But having re-watching it for the second time 19+ years
later, I find it actually quite entertaining! It helps
that Peter Boyle, Alec Baldwin, John Cleese & Randy Quaid
are in it! The female lead, Rosario Dawson, does quite well,
and while the SFX are somewhat lacking, it still is passible!
I highly recommend watching this at least twice, with
at least a few months, if not years, in between! B
From Amazon.com:
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