Film

Meet Dave

July 18, 2008 00:00

By

Gerald Aaron

1 min read

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Director Brian Robbins’s seriously silly but entertainingly science-fiction comedy has Eddie Murphy playing the commander of an Eddie Murphy-lookalike spaceship on a mission involving the destruction of Earth.  Forget the plot and enjoy watching spaceship Murphy, under the command of his minuscule alter ego, learn to walk and talk and bond with humans in a series of mostly crude but often very funny verbal and visual gags.  

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