Artist: Chamber Boyz
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Steel Drums
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
 
During his days as SNL's reigning superstar, Eddie Murphy loved to compare himself
to Elvis. Sure enough: Two decades later, the previous '80s funnyman is allowing his
life history to die the same way The King did -- defenseless, bloated, and on/in the toilet.
One imagines that, as long as on that point are Shrek sequels to keep him financially rosiness,
the comic turned good can crank out whatever cinematic self-delusions he
wants. But with his latest effort, Meet Dave, Murphy faces unitary of his more intimidating challenges
ever -- erasing that atrocity known as Norbit from pop culture's tortured palate.
It's a feat he fails at, almost despite himself.
For the tiny extraterrestrials from the planet Nil, Earth seems like the perfect
root to their problems. With their motherland long low of its main energy Department
source -- salt -- the aliens plan on using an ocean-draining orb to replenish their
supplies. In their humanoid-shaped and -sized spaceship piloted by a brave captain (Murphy),
they will infiltrate Manhattan, locate the missing twist (it break apart landed at that place
three months earlier) and complete their mission. Along the way, the newly-named
vessel Dave Ming Chang (Murphy, over again) will befriend a cy Young widow (Elizabeth Banks) and
her boy Josh (Austin Lynd Myers). As the police try to data track down the man-shaped
slyness, a mutiny among the crew puts all in danger.
Meet Dave has to be matchless of the most disorienting experiences of this or any recent summer.
It's not that this film is bad, or simply mildly mediocre. No, Eddie Murphy's