rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States, Australia; 2002
Directed by Ron Underwood; produced by Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman, Louis A. Stroller; written by Neil Cuthbert
Starring Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, Peter Boyle, Burt Young, Pam Grier, John Cleese, Alex Baldwin
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'The Adventures of Pluto Nash' has the colorful look of a 'Power
Rangers'-episode, therefore seems to be made for especially children, but
has the kind of violent outbursts you see in a Sylvester Stallone film. That
the guns are purple and futuristic does not change that very much.
The film starts in the year 2080 in Little America, a place on the moon. We
meet Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy), a guy who once was a criminal but now owns a
famous bar. Certain people want to buy him out and when Pluto refuses they
blow up the place. This is the beginning of an adventure that involves
Pluto, the girl who just worked for him named Dina (Rosario Dawson) and
Pluto's robot Bruno (Randy Quaid). With the help of friends Rowland (Peter
Boyle), Felix (Luis Guzmán) and Tony Francis (Jay Mohr) he must get to the
mysterious man who wanted to buy him out in the first place.
I must admit that the first half of the movie is not that terrible. There
are some funny moments that includes some funny futuristic dancing, some
funny money and some funny moments with robots. But the simple jokes stop
being funny in the second half and everything else goes wrong there as well.
In sequences where we are not supposed to ask any questions we just have to
ask some. Why are some space suits made so they fit the female forms
perfectly? Or better, why are those suits so conveniently in car Pluto and
Dina have stolen. Normally I do not ask those kind of questions but for some
reason here all the little flaws annoyed me.
Besides some funny moments you could see this if you are a fan of one of the
actors. Together with Murphy, Quaid, Dawson, Boyle, Mohr and Guzmán we also
meet Pam Grier as Pluto's mother, Alec Baldwin, James Rebhorn and Joe
Pantoliano as villains and even John Cleese as a driver. What where these
performers thinking when they said "yes" to this movie? Another one of those
questions.