Eddie Murphy’s long line of terrible movies continues in 2002 with “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.” The storyline of a retired smuggler buying a nightclub in the American colony on the moon in the year 2080 is so ridiculous that it is laughable and is so bad that the film is sort of fun to watch, like a slow-motion train wreck. There is bad directing by Ron Underwood (“Mighty Joe Young” 1998) and atrocious writing by Neil Cuthbert.
Murphy did have an interesting supporting cast behind him: Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Jay Mohr, Joe Pantoliano, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese, Burt Young, Illeana Douglas, and Alec Baldwin in an uncredited cameo appearance.
There is an interesting footnote about this movie. An improbable, uncanny, and unintended reference to the future 2016 Presidential election, with former President Hilary Rodham Clinton’s picture on the $10,000 bill, and a Donald Trump Realty sign that reads “If you lived here….you’d be home by now!”
One of the few reasons to view the bad but watchable “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” that made only $7.1 million dollars against a $100 million dollar budget for Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
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My Review
Eddie Murphy’s long line of terrible movies continues in 2002 with “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.” The storyline of a retired smuggler buying a nightclub in the American colony on the moon in the year 2080 is so ridiculous that it is laughable and is so bad that the film is sort of fun to watch, like a slow-motion train wreck. There is bad directing by Ron Underwood (“Mighty Joe Young” 1998) and atrocious writing by Neil Cuthbert.
Murphy did have an interesting supporting cast behind him: Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Jay Mohr, Joe Pantoliano, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese, Burt Young, Illeana Douglas, and Alec Baldwin in an uncredited cameo appearance.
There is an interesting footnote about this movie. An improbable, uncanny, and unintended reference to the future 2016 Presidential election, with former President Hilary Rodham Clinton’s picture on the $10,000 bill, and a Donald Trump Realty sign that reads “If you lived here….you’d be home by now!”
One of the few reasons to view the bad but watchable “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” that made only $7.1 million dollars against a $100 million dollar budget for Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Warner Bros. Pictures.