for being better than I expected it to be
Eddie Murphy was once a foul mouthed comedian. He used to make rated R movies. But a few years back he stumbled into a gold mine of family oriented Disney films. Meet Dave is another one.
Honestly, I went into this movie expecting it to be a pile of crap, or at least another bland family film that I knew would make money but wouldn’t interest me at all. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised. Meet Dave was funny, genuinely funny. Sort of a mix between Galaxy Quest and Starman, it is about aliens who travel to Earth in a giant space ship that looks like a human. This is because they are about an inch tall, so the human shaped ship also doubles as an android allowing them to move through the population unnoticed. They have come because they are planning to suck the oceans dry and take all the salt in order to save their own world. Of course, on the way to destroying our planet, they learn that maybe we aren’t so bad and might just be worth saving.
Anyway, I enjoyed it… I don’t think I would ever pay $10 to see it in the theater, but I would absolutely throw it in the rental queue on Netflix.