Posted: 08/16/02
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
by Hank Yuloff

No wonder the studio didn't release this early to the reviewing press.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this one. Let's see... Going through my Reviewer's Dictionary of Bad Movie Terms I see the following:

"Dreadful."

"Kept looking at my watch."

"Oh dear, when is this going to end."

Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) is a nightclub owner on the moon in the year2087 (Actually, the movie has a 5 minute preamble which takes place in 2080 and honestly, if I found this one on cable, I never would have made it past the opening scenes). Gambling is about to become legal in hislittle town and Nash is offered $10 million to sell his establishment. When he doesn't sell, his bar mysteriously blows up. Nash wants justice,I think, or maybe revenge, or money damages, and sets out to find the manwho ruined his place. I figured, correctly, that the movie will come toits conclusion when he gets in front of the mysterious mafia-like hood and we have a winner and a loser in their fight to the finish.

Yea, this was a snoorer with few highlights. Another one of those moviesthat is waste of good talent. It was a movie that kept going from firstgear to second and then could never really get into third.

Highlights? Randy Quaid (Chrismas Vacation, Kingpin) is great as Pluto'srobot/bodyguard. Rosario Dawson (Josie and the Pussycats, MIB 2) is good as the "love interest." John Cleese (Monty Python) was great in a cameo.

But Joe Pantoliano's many talents (Memento, US Marshalls. TV's The Sopranos) were wasted. Sowere Peter Boyle and Jay Mohr (Action, Jerry Maguire).

Don't bother here. Not even a rental. Not even if you are a HUGE EddieMurphy fan. Pull Beverly Hills Cop off the shelf instead and wait for this one to be on regular TV on a night you can't sleep. Maybe this will help.

Hank Yuloff is a fan of funny movies. This wasn't one of them.