The Adventures of Pluto Nash | 
| Director: Ron Underwood
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 17262
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Genre: 0
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
ESRB: Teen
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: WARD19041D
UPC: 085391904120
EAN: 0085391904120
ASIN: B00003CXWS
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 2002
Release Date: December 24, 2002
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Product Description
In the future a man struggles to keep control of his nightclub from mafia control in space. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Eddie Murphy Rosario Dawson Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg13
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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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It's The Bomb! February 22, 2009
Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To me there is something very fascinating about the box office bomb. Not just any box office bomb coz many great films have had bad luck in the theaters and never got their money back. I'm talking about the huge, colossal box office bomb-the enormously budgeted film that lost so much money after it's release that you'd swear somebody got fitted with a pair of cement shoes. These films are interesting to me coz it makes me wonder how bad a big budgeted Hollywood film has to be for people not to go see it.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is one of the most legendary cases. It had a huge budget and no one went to see it. This movie lost an ENORMOUS amount of money(look it up on Wikipedia). It was even shelved a few years before being released!! It was panned by everybody, many folks saying it's one of the worst films ever made. Naturally I had to see it. After all, a box office bomb doesn't necessarily mean the movie is bad, and likewise a megahit doesn't mean the film is good. If we followed that kind of logic, Once Upon A Time In America would be a lousy film and Armageddon would be a great film.
I was actually a bit disappointed in this movie. Why? Because it wasn't as bad as it's reputation would have you believe. It's not a great film, or even a very good film, but with that huge cloud of negativity around it, I thought it'd be much worse. Goes to show you can't really believe everything you hear and read. Oddly enough, I would have given this movie four stars had it actually been worse.
The plot is a very traditional one: Pluto Nash refuses to sell his nightclub to a shady crime boss who wants to turn the entire city into a gambling town. Some goons are dispatched to kill Nash. Nash, along with his robot bodyguard(Randy Quaid), and his newly hired waitress/nightclub singer(Rosario Dawson) go on the run, dodging the goons while trying to find their way to the top of the shady crime syndicate. Basically it's a chase movie. The plot goes back to crime films of the 40s, the only difference here is that it all takes place on the moon, thus giving the film makers an excuse to load it with visual effects. The film was directed by Ron Underwood, who has made some good films in the past, most notably Tremors and City Slickers. This certainly isn't Underwood's finest hour.
Like I said before, the movie really isn't all that terrible(I think people automatically think it is because it bombed so badly. It immediately tarnishes your opinion of the film. If you had heard the film was a huge success, you'd go into it with a different mindset, don't tell me you wouldn't). It does actually have a few laughs, and it's worth watching for Randy Quaid alone. He does a pretty good job of making you believe he's a robot. Plus, knowing that it's huge budgeted and tanked royally gives it a bizarre kind of entertainment value as well. It wouldn't kill ya to catch it on T.V. sometime. Hell, you can even get it here on Amazon for a penny! Makes a nice double feature with Battlefield Earth.
 Great sci-fi, slapstick comedy October 25, 2008
E. M. Van Court (Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA)
OK, so it's not "The Twelth Night", Eddie Murphy is good for some laughs in a gangster comedy set in the Moon colonies of the future. Rosario Dawson is a great, down-to-earth (Luna?) foil to Murphy's brand of humor and energy. John Cleese's role is small, but brilliantly executed. The Scottish crooner will have you shaking your head, but that's OK.
The whole sci-fi element was forced, with jokes and visual gags about life on the moon and in the future that felt 'stuck-in' at the last moment, and production values that took fairly good ideas and made them look cheap and sloppy.
So it won't show up on Masterpiece Theater, it's still good fun.
E.M. Van Court
 One of the worst movies ever July 4, 2008
Anastasia Beaverhausen (California)
One of the worst most unwatchable movies of all time. Right up there with I Dreamed of Africa, Battlefield Earth, Redneck Zombies, Fresh Horses and Zohan. I really hope the upcoming "Dave" movie is a whole lot better than this.
I liked the name of the film; I guess that's why I'm giving it one star, that, and I had to.
nightclub on the moon April 20, 2008
Gunner (Bethlehem,Georgia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Adventures of Pluto Nash DVD
The Adventures of Pluto Nash stars Eddie Murphy as an ex-con who owns the most successful nightclub on the moon circa 2,087. He runs into trouble when he refuses to sell out to the Mob.
If you like Eddie Murphy's brand of humor then you'll enjoy this movie. Recommended for fans of Eddie Murphy.
Gunner April, 2008
The Movie is Kick! August 18, 2007
Woodsman (East Coast)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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