7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is what Sci-Fi comedies are all about!, April 7, 2006
OK, first of all, I have to qualify my point of view: get this-- I am a huge fan of good, funny sci-fi flicks. I have to shake my head and wonder what the f*^k those folks that bashed this movie were expecting? I mean really. I was expecting (hoping for) complete silliness. This delivers nonsense in great heaps. If you are an Eddie Murphy fan, then this is Eddie at his most absurd! If you liked the Fifth Element, this is even better! The effects are great, the chick is FINE, and the jokes are non-stop. I laughed out loud I don't know how many times.
For those of you that gave this anything less than four stars, I say you are doing the rest of us a disservice. You should watch films that are more suited to your tastes. Geez!
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money, August 9, 2004
This film is so terrible that adjectives such as "stinking" and "abomination" flee for their lives when trying to describe its appallingness.
But the worst thing about this movie isn't its total lack of humour, or the fact that the write-up on the back of the DVD would have you believe it's the most hysterical work of comedy since John Cleese and company appeared, minus trousers, in the "How to Spot a Mason" sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
A little note: John Cleese does in fact make a cameo appearance in this $US95 million dollar flop. It is a tribute to the negative genius of the scriptwriters that he manages to deliver not a single humorous line during the entire shemozzle.
No, even wasting the talents of the brilliant John Cleese isn't the worst thing about this movie. It is how utterly depressed it will make you feel. Halfway through, I was rolling on the floor pounding my head in pain and yelling out for someone to give me a lobotomy, just so I wouldn't have to think about how lame and awful this movie was.
It makes you wonder...what happened? Did aliens appear halfway through the filming and abduct the "humour" hemisphere of the scriptwriters' brains? Or perhaps in some terrible parallel universe, there is an excess of humour, and scriptwriters there are employed to alleviate the tedium of the constant hystericalness by making non-funny comedies.
If so, NASA funds should immediately be redirected to closing the rip in space/time fabric these people are using to enter our universe. The escapees should then be rounded up from their cushy jobs at Warner Bros and ejected into space on the next Soyuz shuttle launch.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
somewhere in between Space Truckers and MIIB is Pluto Nash, January 14, 2003
It's a two or three star movie, but I enjoyed it so that's all that counts. It was a dumb movie, but entertaining. Need I go on? As for the production value; no complaints. It would be nice to see the "Sixth Element" or "Starship Troopers II", but I don't think I'm going to get my wish. So cheesy movies like this and Tremors III will do. You can tell their reach was further than their grasp and there is a little money thrown at the movie. The CGI is nice, acting was what you'd expect. I didn't belly laugh or anything but maybe a giggle. What else can I say?
As for everyone who hated Pluto Nash; what did you expect?
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