Pre-Emptive Review: Meet Dave
My friend Matt once said that Murphy’s Law -” if anything can go wrong, it will “- could best be illustrated by the career of Eddie Murphy.
Additional properties: The wrongness multiplies exponentially when he attempts to play more than one character per movie. Like this one. And this one. And this one. And this one. The wrongness has an inverse ration of offensiveness (skyrockets) to cleverness (reduced to the lowest amusement denominator) when playing overweight characters.
This week, Meet Dave joins the pack.
This is the synopsis:
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Need I say more?
Oh wait… yes… I do need to say more and it’s this:
Marc Blucas is in this film.
Which means I might need to watch it to mock it. That’s all.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
At first I was like ‘Marc Blucas’? Who the hell is Mark Lucas, and why does Bonnie hate him so much that she’s oddly mocking his name?!
What kind of last name is Blucas? It’s like bland mucus. Which sort of sums up that guy in a nutshell.
Also, I had seen a poster for Meet Dave and had subsequently blocked the horror from my brain; I resent you reminding me how cruel the world can be!
July 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
In his bio, Marc Blucas says he listens to Creed. How did a Creed listener get to work with Joss Whedon? I hate glitches in the matrix.