Meet Dave

Name: Meet Dave
Released: 2008-7-11
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms

Meet Dave

PG
1h 31m
2008

20%

age 9+

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Seeking a way to save their doomed world, a crew of tiny, human-looking aliens arrives on Earth in the perfect disguise--a spaceship shaped like an ordinary man.

Director:

Brian Robbins

Producer:

Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki, David T. Friendly

Writer:

Bill Corbett, Rob Greenberg

Cast:

Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

20%

Critics Consensus: Easy gags and slack direction drag this occasionally clever alien-out-of-planet comedy down to unimaginative lows.

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

A disappointment from an actor who has recently shown the world he's capable of mighty fine acting.

I might even go out on a limb and actually say that Meet Dave is, um, good.

I'm sure a more refined filmmaker could've squeezed the premise tighter for sophisticated laughs, but as family-angled sci-fi comedies go, Dave is actually quite agreeable. Who knew Murphy still had some fun left in him?

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 9+

Common Sense Says

Not as crass as Norbit, but as forgettable.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that although this Eddie Murphy comedy is mostly inoffensive, the alien characters display some off-putting stereotypes about gay men, women, and African Americans. The jokes aren't crass -- they're just cliched and stupid (for example, liking showtunes means you're flamboyantly homosexual, being black means you love rap, etc.). Otherwise, there's some scatological humor, a couple scenes of mild violence, some mild drinking and language, and a whole lot of product placements.