Starship Dave

[Dim of the Yard]

Good God, now I'm curious.  If the black SUV rear-ends the Eddie Murphy head, is it a car accident or vehicular manslaughter?

[Tripe]

The biggest hazard would be if any of these lovely ladies are hitching a lift on the side of the road:




The car just won't be able to help itself.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Good God, now I'm curious.  If the black SUV rear-ends the Eddie Murphy head, is it a car accident or vehicular manslaughter?

And if it were a white SUV, would it be a hate crime?

[bettertomorrowamy]

Good God, now I'm curious.  If the black SUV rear-ends the Eddie Murphy head, is it a car accident or vehicular manslaughter?

I think it'd be a mercy killing.

[AmandaGal]

Am the only one who laughed at the previews?

{silence}

I don't think it will be bad.

[Junkyard]

... while I, however, am 100% certain it will be.

Of course, that's mostly because I don't like the KIND of humor the concept promises, so it could still stand on it's own.

[bettertomorrowamy]

I just heard the last podcast Bill did on the fourth and it sounded like creative control was given to Hollywood helper monkeys.  They always have to dumb things down for the widest audience, but I hope it isn't Norbit 2.

[Tripe]

See I like the concept, The Numskulls (see spoiler for an example) was one of my favorite comic strips when I was a nipper.

Spoiler

However the trailer didn't look all that good really.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Good God, now I'm curious.  If the black SUV rear-ends the Eddie Murphy head, is it a car accident or vehicular manslaughter?

I think it would be part of the Highway Beautification Project.....

[mrbasehart]

There's a review of the movie over at IGN:

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/887/887834p1.html

I'll quote a little just in case people don't like to click:

Move over Pluto Nash because Meet Dave just took your place as the worst science-fiction comedy starring Eddie Murphy. It boggles the mind why Murphy thought such a genre hybrid would work better for him this time around.  Although the script was co-written by Mystery Science Theater 3000 vet Bill Corbett, Meet Dave is exactly the kind of god-awful genre flick that MST3K would have hammered.

Eep.

[Asbestos Bill]

"Coming out this week... 'Meet Dave,' a stupid looking sci-fi comedy, but I'll probably see it just because of the Murphster--I mean come on!"

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[Artie]

From Rotten Tomatoes:
"The pundits say Meet Dave has a reasonable premise and a couple decent chuckles, but it's indifferently executed and weighted down by pretty juvenile humor"

I'd say it's pretty clear who is responsible for which parts here.

We can only hope that some day we'll get read the original script and imagine what should have been.

[GLaDOS]

How can the movie be so bad if Bill Corbett wrote it? I mean I know it's already gotten lots of awful reviews, but I just don't understand this.

[bettertomorrowamy]

How can the movie be so bad if Bill Corbett wrote it? I mean I know it's already gotten lots of awful reviews, but I just don't understand this.

creative control was given to Hollywood helper monkeys.

[GLaDOS]

Well that makes sense but if I were Bill Corbett and I was writing a movie like that I would want to adopt a pseudonym.