Product Description

Set on the moon in the year 2087, the action/adventure comedy "Pluto Nash" stars Eddie Murphy as the title character, an audacious nightclub owner who finds himself in hot water when he refuses to sell his club to the local mob.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38020 in DVD
• Brand: MURPHY,EDDIE
• Released on: 2002-12-24
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.com
The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime and started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A.I., this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humor. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Fun
Well, I don't know who these top 500 and 1000 reviewers think they are to give everything a bad review because they assume they'll make a career out of it once they get out of their mother's basement, but I think, for us normal people who don't sit around and write thousands of pathetic movie reviews on amazon.com, that Pluto Nash is a fun movie. There's comedy, action, and a great supporting cast, which, though it doesn't live up to its full potential, shines in the areas of Peter Boyle and particularly Jay Mohr, while the rest isn't at all bad. Though WB marketed it poorly, as, essentially, a movie, without anything in it, Pluto Nash ends up being an entertaining action comedy, and, though there isn't too much of either action or comedy, that's easily made up for in the CGI, the musical score (which I'm having trouble getting my hands on--I guess WB just didn't put it out), and, especially, the amazing set design, which made the movie a great spectacle in Little America, Moon Beach, the Lunar Grand, and Club Pluto. The plot can be read about in the other reviews, and all I'm saying is that this is a fun movie that doesn't deserve its bad rap.

Absolutely the WORST movie of 2002!
I am delighted this movie is coming to DVD. It is absolutely awful--and sitting through it is like sitting through a 90-minute car wreck. The story is absurd and pointless, and it's fun to try and imagine at what point in filming Eddie Murphy gave up and just started to mail it in. Thanks to the DVD medium, not only can we watch this mess again and again (it's sure to become a cult classic), we can also gain some insight by listening to the director's commentary. This is a movie that's so bad, so misguided, and so poorly executed that one can only wonder "what in the world were they thinking?!" Movies like that don't come along every day (or do they?) and you have to enjoy them while you can. This DVD is a MUST HAVE purchase!

somewhere in between Space Truckers and MIIB is Pluto Nash
It's a two or three star movie, but I enjoyed it so that's all that counts. It was a dumb movie, but entertaining. Need I go on? As for the production value; no complaints. It would be nice to see the "Sixth Element" or "Starship Troopers II", but I don't think I'm going to get my wish. So cheesy movies like this and Tremors III will do. You can tell their reach was further than their grasp and there is a little money thrown at the movie. The CGI is nice, acting was what you'd expect. I didn't belly laugh or anything but maybe a giggle. What else can I say?

As for everyone who hated Pluto Nash; what did you expect?