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THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH
"They forgot to put in the entertainment...The result is something
quite rare in professional show business: 1-1/2 hours of pure blankness.
It's there but it's not there. It is but it isn't. It has nothing
to offer. It's not forgettable, really, because there's nothing
to forget." --
Stephen
Hunter, The Washington Post
"... so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes
cruelty to canines. It isn't even bad in a way that could be remotely
construed as entertaining, unless your idea of fun is counting lapses
in continuity and scenes where the actors' lip movements don't match
the dialogue...Watching it is like watching 90 minutes of outtakes--deleted
scenes randomly assembled by a drunken night watchman at the studio."--Lou
Lumenick, The New York Post
"'The Adventures of Pluto Nash' is horribly misguided. It's not funny
and it's not suspenseful. It's not exciting and it's not dramatic.
It's just very busy, a lot of bright lights and noise with nothing
inside...As for Murphy, Pluto Nash is simply a continuation of a career
free-fall occasionally slowed by work in animated flicks and talking-animal
movies." --Randy Cordova, The Arizona
Republic
"... setting this picture on the moon wasn't enough to help it escape
the crushing gravitational pull of a bad script...The prefab lunar
interiors have the molded plastic look of a backlot, like the 1990
'Total Recall' or the Universal CityWalk mall in Burbank, whichever
is tackier." --Elvis Mitchell, The
New York Times
"...an inconsequential futuristic action-comedy lensed more than two
years ago and originally planned for release 14 months ago. Unceremoniously
dropped into theaters sans press screenings by distrib Warners, this
Eddie Murphy showcase puts the actor in the familiar role playing
a funnyman who can shoot guns and chase bad guys, but the proper mix
is never found --Robert Koehler,
Variety
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