Meet Dave Reviews
Watertown Daily Times
Remember a time when Eddie Murphy actually used to be funny?
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top Critic
Meet Dave pays lip service to the joys of exploring new worlds, but it never steps off the tour bus.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is made-for-TV material dressed up by Eddie Murphy's participation into a theatrical release.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Hollywood.com
Meet Dave is passable family fare, occasionally even inspired, but in the end it remains earthbound.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Boxoffice Magazine
Murphy, both as Dave and the shipâ(TM)s captain is in good form mugging for laughs and getting a few.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Beliefnet
Murphy's best moments here only remind us of "Coming to America," another fish-out-of-water story. These days, Murphy seems like a fish out of water as an actor on screen.
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| Original Score: C-
MSNBC
It's a pity someone can't guide the course of Starship Murphy to a smarter, funnier universe than the one he's chosen to explore.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Better material and more adept direction might've made this a perfectly solid commercial enterprise.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cinematical
A comedian known for his brash wit and go-for-broke charm, Murphy used to be willing to say anything to get a laugh. Now, he's clearly willing to do anything.
Even in C-movie junk like this, Murphy manages to wring a few laughs out of the material. But the humor is so broad it barely fits onto the screen.
Washington Times
Meet Dave is a fish-out-of-water comedy with a rather annoying fish.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Screen International
The puzzler that is Eddie Murphy's career continues apace with this low-fi kiddy-oriented affair featuring the comedian as both a human-shaped spaceship called Dave Ming-chang and the commander of said vessel.
AALBC.com
The worst sci-fi comedy since, well, since Eddie Murphy made The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
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| Original Score: 0/4
EricDSnider.com
Let's be honest: The shocker here would have been if it were any good.
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| Original Score: D
Paste Magazine
I doubt many kids will follow the bit about using an orb to desalinate the earth's water, but that's just the MacGuffin of a film whose nature is to whiff across the top of a kid's head and then evaporate, which it does, leaving almost no residue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Even for a high-concept, lowbrow summer release Meet Dave is drab, shoddy work.
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| Original Score: 2/6
Sin Magazine
A movie starring Eddie Murphy used to mean something good. Now it just means that you should avoid anything he does at all costs. MEET DAVE is a disaster of epic proportions.
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