2008 · comedy · sci-fi · adventure
Meet Dave
Directed by Brian Robbins1h 30m2008
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Our read: Meet Dave (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Meet Dave tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Meet Dave feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want goofy Eddie Murphy sci-fi as tiny aliens pilot a human-shaped spaceship.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if juvenile fish-out-of-water gags and weak reviews killed your curiosity already.
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