Don’t Wanna MEET DAVE!
Posted by Ray DeRousse
I am speechless.
I remember Eddie Murphy from the very beginning of his career. He erupted from one of the worst casts to ever assemble on the Saturday Night Live stage with a magnetic blend of charisma, wit, and nasty charm. He created indelible characters and skits during his brief run, including Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, Gumby, Buckwheat, and Little Richard. However, these characters were more than merely funny; they also skewered and examined the social, sexual, and racial divisions within society at the time. Entire graduate theses’ could be crafted from the wealth of information contained in some of these sketches.
Murphy parlayed this television success into a series of films which continued his scathing riffs on modern society and class structure. Films like Trading Places, 48 Hours, Raw, and Beverly Hills Cop, cemented Murphy’s standing as heir apparent to Richard Pryor.
In my mind, Murphy’s nauseating descent began with the release of the disastrous misstep The Golden Child. Despite Murphy’s constant mugging, this over-produced shitbag revealed Murphy’s desperate desire to cross over into family-oriented blockbusters. This trend continued with films like Coming To America (which gave us the first taste of Murphy playing every fucking role in the movie) and Boomerang.
The first true nail in the coffin of Murphy’s career was hammered in tightly the moment he made the fateful decision to star in 1996’s The Nutty Professor. A huge blockbuster, the film made Murphy a household name, and suddenly popular with a large segment of the Wal-Mart-shopping population eager to stare, slack-jawed, at the latest dumbed-down slapstick bullshit.
Since then, we have been soaked in a steady stream of bewilderingly-bad Murphy films. Dr. Doolittle … I Spy … Daddy Day Care … Norbit. Even a monumental disaster like Pluto Nash - a cinematic justification for abortion if ever there was one - hasn’t seemed to slow down Murphy’s idiotic train at all.
Which segues nicely into this trailer for Murphy’s latest film, which many feared would become another Pluto Nash. Previously known as Starship Dave, the newly-monikered Meet Dave stars Murphy as an alien who commands a starship in the form of a robot that looks just like Eddie Murphy.
How meta. Yawn.
The trailer makes the film look less appealing than having a Klendathu ant-creature rip open your anus and lay eggs up inside your small intestine. The only way I would ever buy a ticket to this projected bloodfart is if the ticket came with a free shot at Eddie Murphy with a shotgun. Watching him here makes me want to bore my thumbs into his googly eyes for what he’s done to himself.
Anyway, here’s the fucking trailer for the film guaranteed to make you despise the medium:
P.S. Using the song Staying Alive doesn’t make your movie cool, Ed. It’s become a cliche … stop using it.
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Somebody needs to write an article about the continuing crap that keeps getting made from 4 comedians:
Eddie murphy, mike myers, adam sandler, will ferrel
All 4 are great candidates to talk about. Murphy’s upcoming “Meet Dave(originally Starship Dave, wtf?), Myers’ “The Guru”, Sandler’s “Zohan” and finally Ferrel’s “Step Brothers”
Is it me or were they only their best when they were on SNL and after with their rising success from that show? All 4 comedians seem to have lost it now.
so im just saddened to see repeated crap coming from these 4. can somebody write about this please? I think it’s a pretty serious issue lol
Wow.
Absolutely horrendous.
I didn’t think it could get worse than Norbit but the moment Murphy high pitches “Stayin’ Alive” and smiles into the camera is rock bottom for him.
Tarantino needs to get that INGLORIOUS BASTARDS script complete and work his resurrecting magic with him.
@ Matt - Let’s not give Quentin any more bad ideas, okay??
wow..this looks amazing!
@ Ruud - Please tell me you’re being sarcastic. This is the worst trailer I have seen in a long, long time.
@ Ray - Hell no, this looks awesome. especially the part where (real) eddie murphy is running around on the street and almost gets hit by a basketball. It just doesn’t get better than that!
On a serious note: that girl he’s with in this flick looks gorgeous as always. Don’t think its worth buying a ticket for though..
@ Ruud - Hate to get existential here, but who is the “(real) Eddie Murphy” anymore?
“…projected bloodfart….” awesome. You are so right-what the hell happened to Eddie? Don’t forget, in real life, he’s known to be a womanizing bastard and very,very rude. I waited on him once in LA-I know…he deserves this -esp since he got up and left the Academy Awards when he didn’t win for “Chicago”-not classy…Good Lord, the phrase” honor just to be nominated” never ,ever applied as much as when Eddie F**kin Murphy was up for an Oscar!
ALK-
Couldn’t agree more-esp concerning Will Ferrell-his descent makes me sad, cuz he is truly funny-as is Myers,who I have hope for, even though this “guru” thing is just re-hashed Austin Powers. Sandler lost me after “Chuck and Larry”.And for Eddie-his true nature and personality have forever turned me off his performances, in the same way Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson have.
@ Ray - Good question. It’s all about money, obviously.
There arent a lot of comedic actors out there that stop at the right time. I take my hat off to Chappelle (ok, he does mostly tv but had the balls to walk away from the same old).
@ ALK - True that..Ferrel is in some real shitty movies. For some reason i still like Gibson. At least for his skills as a director: Apocalypto was an amazing flick