Dave (Eddie Murphy) is a life size robot that is being piloted by many small aliens inside, and they are led by their Captain (Eddie Murphy). The aliens landed on earth in search of some lost technology, and before you ask no this is not the Transformers sequel. Then the story goes on with us following the aliens as they try to blend into our society while they search for the technology and learning a few things about the planet along the way.

This movie is possibly the first movie of the summer that met my expectations exactly. If you’ve seen the trailer for this movie, and if it doesn’t appeal to you then don’t go and see it because the movie is ninety minutes of the same stuff you have in the trailer.

The acting is modern Eddie Murphy, over the top silly. This is my problem, he isn’t funny anymore. I remember loving watching his 80s movies and stand-ups and being willing to call him one of the best comedians to go on the silver screen then. But as I said in my post earlier this week, I haven’t enjoyed an Eddie Murphy movie since the turn of the millennium. And you can read there exactly why for the previous cases, but in this case I think this is possibly rock bottom for him. This movie has made me have to admit that The Happening is possibly not the worst movie out this summer.

The only way I think I can properly express how hard it was to sit through this movie is that it lasts ninety minutes and I didn’t laugh once. I mean, I’ve experienced bad movies before and I have to say most of the time it’s at home watching the DVD most of the time since I can like take breaks by pausing the movie or even get so frustrated I can throw the disc out the window I never think it’s as bad as it really is. However, with being in the theatre and I mean I know I can walk out, but I swallowed the bullet so that you won’t have to. This movie is definitely one of those that after the first ten minutes you’re ready to go outside and smash your head against a boulder larger than you body.

I could talk about how Eddie Murphy has money come out his ass, but someone else did before me and I don’t want to come off as cheap as this movie’s comedy. I know I want my hour and half back of my life so I could’ve done something more useful, like start reading the dictionary from A to Z or maybe learn how to speak to kangaroos.

Overall this movie is really horrible and I wouldn’t recommend anyone see this film. But with all that said there were people laughing in the theatre and I’m sure children will enjoy the poop humour and things like that, and I guess if you liked Norbit you may like this one, since it’s the same director and more Murphy. But this is not for me and I hope they take all the prints of this movie and dump them in the middle of New Mexico like they did with the Atari ET game.

IMDB says 4.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 22%

I say 1.0/10