Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

shacmasta I don't get why some reviewers feel they have this duty to review every film like it's up for a best picture nomination. This is a very well done science fiction comedy that moves well (run time about 90mins) and is well acted. Loads of familiar faces in the film so that usually helps a movie find an audience on Netflix/Amz/Hulu. It has its usual comedy pratfalls but overall it's a cute flick that you will have no issues enjoying with your family....I mean Hollywood should have room for films like these too. It wasn't always about comic book franchises and animation studios.

FilmBuff1994 Meet Dave is a below average movie with a ridiculous storyline and a cast that clearly only agreed to this movie for some money.I like a lot of cast,Eddie Murphy,Elizabeth Banks,Ed Helms and Kevin Hart are all actors i've enjoyed in the past,but known of them were enough to make up for how stupid this movie was,how unlikeable the characters were and how there was literally no scene in this movie that I actually found properly funny,I did laugh at times,but there was nothing really hilarious,and I found the idea of little aliens controlling Eddie Murphy just creepy.Fans of Eddie Murphy or a parent that wants a movie to watch with the family should definitely avoid this movie,your not going to enjoy it if you have any taste in comedy.A diminutive captain controls a an sized humanoid spaceship on a quest to Earth with the rest of his tiny crew on a mission to drain Earth's oceans.

FlashCallahan A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose car strikes the alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew have 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York....So the story doesn't really add up to much, but the amount of physical comedy he does here is brilliant, and shows that he doesn't have to play multiple characters to get the laughs.But at the time when this was released (and still now, everything that Murphy released was panned globally, and flopped like nobodies business.But luckily, I have my own brain, and don't jump on the bandwagon, so I enjoyed for what it is, a silly kids film with plenty of things to smile at, even though I only laughed once.So it won't garner Murphy any new fans, but please, it's really quite endearing if you watch it without the criticism.

TheLittleSongbird Meet Dave is nowhere near as atrocious as Norbit, but if you want an Eddie Murphy classic look no further than Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours and Trading Places. The premise in Meet Dave is stupid in a way but it was intriguing too, the film visually doesn't look too shabby, it starts off very well and Scott Caan and Elizabeth Banks give fun performances. Sadly I can't say the same for Murphy, who tries too hard and over-compensates embarrassingly. He is saddled with some of the weakest material of the film to be fair. The humour in general is very lame and lowbrow, the gags are mostly unimaginative and the script is unfunny and only got a raised eyebrow from me at one or two points. And while the concept is decent, how the story itself is executed isn't so much, it did feel very rushed and some scenes screamed of you've-seen-it-all-before kind of sensation you can get sometimes, while the direction is unfocused. Overall, liked the concept, disliked in general the film. 4/10 Bethany Cox