Meet Dave |  | Actors: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Hart, Floyd Levine, Rob Moran
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 13034
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2253303
UPC: 024543533030
EAN: 0024543533030
ASIN: B001F7Q4IY
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 25, 2008
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Product Description
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 25-NOV-2008
Media Type: DVD
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Meet Dave is a family space farce with enough Eddie Murphy slapstick to make the whole family chuckle. With elements of InnerSpace, Starman, Men in Black, and even a bit of Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, the film may not break new ground, but Murphy's giddy performance lifts the material to an engaging level. Murphy plays a space ship in human form, carrying wee aliens on an excursion to earth. As "Dave Ming Chang," he interacts with his surroundings and fellow humans by following the orders given by the ship's commanders inside his "head." It's an endearing fish-out-of-water yarn that riffs of pop culture as well as potty humor for its laughs. ("Lieutenant Bottoms, what is your status?" "Captain, we had a small gas leak. It was silent, but not deadly.") In the course of his mission, Dave is hit by a car, becomes a substitute teacher in a New York City public school, and starts to develop feelings for earth kids--and ladies. All the while his homage to the Bee Gees, from the white suit to his high-pitch-perfect rendition of "Stayin' Alive," provides an oddly perfect backdrop and symbol for Dave's being ever so slightly behind the times. Murphy is engaging as always, firing off deadpan one-liners and happily being the straight man to the film's jokes. A potential love interest, Gina (Elizabeth Banks), mentions that her late husband was a captain in the Navy. Dave says, "I am a captain." Gina: "Oh really? A captain of what?" Inside Dave's head, the crewmembers frantically search their earth database to give him the answer: "I am a captain of crunch." --A.T. Hurley
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 Meet Dave December 31, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings, is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose car strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth's giants, Josh and his mom, have anything to teach these brainy aliens. Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in.
This is a very good and clean movie that the whole family can enjoy. This movie is suitable for all ages, which is very rare these days. Overall a decent and funny movie.
I agree with most of the reviews,the most underrated film ever September 27, 2009
Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States)
"Meet Dave" is so original.It showcases all of Murphys talents.I heard so many bad reviews of this movie I never even bothered to watch,untill I went over my Sisters and she had this DVD playing,and I couldn't leave.
IF you happen to come accross this film,make sure you watch it or rent it or buy the DVD.You will not be dissapointed.
Funny Movie - light-hearted humour September 4, 2009
AwakeNow.co.uk (UK)
Meet Dave was a light-hearted bit of fun with the life-sized Eddie Murphy being a space ship to transport a miniture himself to earth along with his crew.
Murphy does some very funny routines which have not been part of any of his other movies, in specch and in actions and the movie was funny and entertaining as the spaceman has to interact with strangers on another planet - earth.
 Not as Bad as "Norbit" August 25, 2009
Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan)
"Meet Dave" is a one joke movie stretched to the limit. Actually it was stretched way beyond the breaking point. The comedy is sporadically funny and even clever, but to pad out the film's running time, the filmmakers added easy jokes and uninteresting subplots. What makes me really sad is that the film stars Eddie Murphy. I really like him, but what happened to him?
Eddie Murphy plays double roles in "Meet Dave," a tiny humanoid alien captain of a man-sized spaceship that landed in New York City to save his dying planet, and the spaceship itself that resembles the captain. The first Murphy operates the second Murphy from within, with other crew including Gabrielle Union.
On Earth the aliens (or the spaceship) befriend a single mother Gina Morrison (Elizabeth Banks) and her son Josh (Austin Lynd Myers). Josh happens to have a secret device that the crew of Eddie Murphy's spaceship, now called "Dave Ming-Chang," must recover, no matter what it takes.
Actually, what follows is a series of silly jokes. Some of them are funny, but soon the film runs out of tricks. You know, any aliens coming from outer space doesn't need much time to retrieve a lost object from an unsuspecting boy, so "Dave Ming-Chang" finds a romantic interest in an unlikely figure. There is also a subplot about a police officer seeking the crash-landed spaceship (played by Scott Caan). The writers hired for the film seem to have been so desperate.
Eddie Murphy has played multiple roles in his films and in most cases the results are effective. But playing a spaceship (and walking and talking while being controlled from inside) is something new to him, and here he is just OK. Some people may find Eddie Murphy walking like a broken robot very funny. Sorry, but not me, perhaps because I still remember him as the star of "48 Hrs" "Trading Places" and "Beverly Hills Cop."
I almost forgot this. The director of "Meet Dave" is Brian Robbins, whose films as director include "Good Burger," "Varsity Blues" "Ready to Rumble" "Hardball" "The Perfect Score" "The Shaggy Dog" and awful "Norbit," the last one starring Eddie Murphy. At least "Meet Dave" is not as bad as that.
Underrated Movie July 3, 2009
Stamen Lolov (VA)
The only reason i did not see this movie, was the negative reviews it got.
The movie is awesome. I wish I knew when it came out first to go and see in the cinema.
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