Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
slightlymad22
The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002)Plot In A Paragraph: In the future, a night club owner tries to keep the mob from taking over his bar. What a mess. It lacks adventure and is not funny or interesting. I can only assume by the the talent in the cast (Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Burt Young, Randy Quaid, Joe Pantolino, Luis Guzman, Peter Boyle, John Cleese, Pam Grier and James Rebhorn) that at some point this movie was decent on paper, and read funny. Then it was botched on it is way to the big screen. The potential was there.Ron Underwood directed one of my favourite movies in City Slickers and a movie I really, really enjoy in Tremors. Was he hampered by meddling producers or studio execs?? Who knows!! But this is some uninspired directing. A prime example is I watched an episode of the tv show Seaquest DSV with Roy Schieder before this movie, and that TV effort from 1993 was better directed, and had better effects. As for Murphy, he is on autopilot. Rosario Dawson, is bland (but not as bad as she was in Men In Black 2) and she had zero chemistry with Murphy. As shown in Seven Pounds, she is a talented actress, John Powell actually gives the movie a much better score than it deserves!! The movie had actually been sitting on a shelf for two years before finally being released in 2002. It was an extremely expensive movie starring a big Hollywood star. But it was so bad, the studio waited two years to release it. After viewing the movie, Alex Baldwin insisted on being uncredited, whilst Murphy refused to promote the film, and stated that the money is the only reason he took the role. In absolute terms, this movie made the largest financial loss of any movie to date, with a budget of $100 million and a total US gross of $4.41 million (loss of $95.59 million) and a lifetime worldwide gross of $7,103,973 for a total loss of $92,896,027
pilon-34719
My wife and I love this movie and have watched it many times. Good clean action the whole family can enjoy. This movie has a great story and characters that are easy to like and root for. I would love to see another movie or TV show of Pluto Nash. If you liked,Princess Bride,5th Element or StarDust you will enjoy this movie.
eivindespenes
I found this movie to be thoroughly entertaining. I have no idea why this movie has such poor ratings. Maybe you just have to be a science fiction fan to enjoy it?I like the entire outer space thing. Then there's the vehicles. The robot thing going on. I also don't think the acting is as bad as some people will have you believe.I think it's a brilliant movie and I would gladly watch it again. I'm confused why this movie has such bad reviews. And according to the internet it was a bomb at the box office? Maybe people have no taste.Over time maybe this can be considered a cult classic. Much like other entertaining films like Lifepod.
TheLittleSongbird
I do not hate Pluto Nash because it was a box-office failure, even if it was, I don't consider that a valid enough reason to hate on a movie. I hate it because it is for me simply not funny and wastes a cast that I think are talented and deserve better.Granted the special effects are elaborate and really quite good and I did like the music, however that is all I have to say that was good. Don't get me wrong I do like Eddie Murphy and his films, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, Trading Places and Shrek and classics and I liked Coming to America and Bowfinger too.However, when it comes to talking about his films, the only movie of his I consider worse than Pluto Nash is the atrocity that is Norbit. Murphy is a funny and likable actor, but he is very bland here. He does make too much of an effort to stop his character from being bland and ends up over-compensating.The rest of the cast are wasted. John Cleese phones in, Pam Grier is saddled with tired material and sadly it comes through loud and clear in her performance and Rosario Dawson struggles with a clichéd character in the form of a wannabe singer. Worst of all is Randy Quaid, who not only has some of the film's worst dialogue and gags but his performance is just awful.The cast are not helped by a truly tired and unfunny script, lazy direction from Ron Underwood(was it really the director of Tremors and City Slickers?) and a rushed and predictable story that is filled with poor characters and trite and disconnected scenes.So in conclusion, a very poor film and one of Murphy's worst films. 2/10 Bethany Cox
