The Man on the moon.
Set on the moon in the year 2087, where audacious nightclub owner Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) finds himself in hot water when he refuses to sell his club to the local mob. The lunar gangsters are helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the moon. Joining Pluto in the danger and lunacy are Dina Lake (Rosario Dawson), a beautiful earthling who has travelled to the moon to further her singing ambitions, and Pluto's bodyguard Bruno (Randy Quaid), a robot quickly approaching obsolescence.
Special Agent Matti
Potato mash. Take one big name, put it in your favourite old plot, boil for a while, mash it all up.
The adventures of Pluto Nash is a collection of clichés in search of a story. It tries very hard to be serious but then it has henchmen who couldn't hit the side of a barn and android sex dolls who do nothing but bend over in very short skirts. That's entertainment but it's not science fiction. There was a sci-fi fan who worked on the crew, probably in the digital effects department, because there are a lot of in-jokes.
The worst mistake is the "big twist at the end" where Pluto discovers the identity of the mysterious bad guy: it's a mistake because you, the audience, has no chance to figure out who he is. Neil Cuthbert uses the "remember when" excuse - remember when you had your appendix out well we cloned you and copied your memories as well. Said appendix was removed three years before the film begins and isn't even mentioned until this scene. Sloppy, sloppy filmmaking.
Eddie is Eddie, hamming it up and doing all those tired characters he's played so many times before. Rosario is the sexy daughter of an old friend (all daughters of old friends are sexy in Hollywood). The most interesting character in The adventures of Pluto Nash is the comic relief sidekick robot played by Randy Quaid. You know a film is in trouble when the most interesting character is a comic relief sidekick robot. Imagine if the most interesting character in Star wars was C3PO.
If you're desperate for a hit of science fiction then The adventures of Pluto Nash will scratch the itch but that's all.
M (Low level violence)
95 minutes (1:35 hours)
Film: 21 November 2002
DVD rental: 16 April 2003
VHS rental: 16 April 2003