The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Jesus. This was allegedly a comedy, but to call it merely unfunny would imply that there were attempts at humor. Nobody here appears to have been trying to fashion any actual jokes -- even the performers are as somber as players in a Bergman film. Really, it's disheartening to think that this is what $90 mil buys these days; you could give a hi-def camera and $100,000 to a nauseous and blind high school student who had just finished consuming his tenth doppio espresso and make him adhere to the rules of Dogme 95 while holding the camera with his teeth.... and the resulting mess would likely STILL be more impressive than this thing. (I can't bring myself to call it a "film"... sorry.) Between this, Showtime and the upcoming I Spy (also pretty disastrous-looking), this will not have been a very good year for Eddie Murphy. I guess we can all stop making fun of John Travolta now.
Grade: F
Jesus. This was allegedly a comedy, but to call it merely unfunny would imply that there were attempts at humor. Nobody here appears to have been trying to fashion any actual jokes -- even the performers are as somber as players in a Bergman film. Really, it's disheartening to think that this is what $90 mil buys these days; you could give a hi-def camera and $100,000 to a nauseous and blind high school student who had just finished consuming his tenth doppio espresso and make him adhere to the rules of Dogme 95 while holding the camera with his teeth.... and the resulting mess would likely STILL be more impressive than this thing. (I can't bring myself to call it a "film"... sorry.) Between this, Showtime and the upcoming I Spy (also pretty disastrous-looking), this will not have been a very good year for Eddie Murphy. I guess we can all stop making fun of John Travolta now.
Grade: F
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