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- The Adventures of Pluto Nash |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash is Eddie
Murphy's latest attempt at regaining his form of the 80's. This time
Eddie plays Pluto Nash a former con artist and current bar owner who
refuses to sell his establishment to a refuted mobster who wants to turn
the bar into a high class casino. The mobster sends his henchmen out to
rid the moon of Nash. And so the chase ensues.
A quick glance at the cast of Pluto Nash does give some hope - Randy
Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Pam Grier and Alec Baldwin amongst
others - not too bad of a lineup. And to tell you the truth, the plot of
the movie isn't all that bad either. It is simple. Maybe it lacks a
little of that certain "je ne sais quois", but I have
certainly seen worse. The various sets and special effects are once
again simple but decent. But where this movie fails begins and ends with
Eddie Murphy. He sleepwalks through the entire movie, bringing no
emotion and absolutely no humor. He brings nothing to the table and it
is the same lack of chemistry that he gave us in Showtime with Robert De
Niro that he brings to Pluto Nash. It seems he brings down the rest of
the cast of the movie with him. There is not one single performance in
this movie that stands out and that is its number one failure. Perhaps
if we were given an actor with a little emotion and a lot more humor we
could have had something here. But Murphy takes this movie to the same
place he has brought almost all of his movies since the late 1980's
(perhaps with the exception of Shrek) - right down the proverbial
toilet.
I will end by saying this - Pluto Nash is not the worst movie I have
seen this summer. It does have its moments. But looking at it as a
whole, there is not a helluva lot here. Like I said earlier, someone
with a bit more passion could have brought this movie to places it will
unfortunately never see. But seeing Eddie Murphy, with that goofy smile
of his taking up the entire screen, buried Pluto Nash deeper than the
mobsters in the movie wanted to.
 
- 5/10
Brendan Cullin - Senior
Editor
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