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Save the Rich! A Public Service Announcement...
By Robyn Ewing FOR LA2DAY.COM 14 Jul 2008

Ok. So, on paper, ‘Meet Dave' bomb-aroo'd at the box office. A scanty 5 million dollar take since last weekend's opening. Rolling Stone called it "lazyass" joke writing. Which, joy of crap, it is! The curmudgeons at Rotten Tomatoes gave it a few points above excrement. And no one who sits down to think about these things understands why Mr. Murphy agreed to once again travel the bedeviling sci-fi path (sillybilly Adventures of Pluto Nash) and take on the role of a miniature human-shaped alien who captains a space ship dressed up in disco whites.

Mr. Murphy as a disco fever rocket ship in 'Meet Dave'

It's a stretch, yes, but Mr. Murphy, of rubbery Gumby fame on Saturday Night Live, is an alien talent, supah-stah talent, and maybe earth just doesn't know how to ingest all his -- sprawliness. So he sticks himself in ever more preposterous movies to try and find expression for his, heck, range.

Mr. Murphy, as a foam Gumby, on the right.

So if you're thinking thrice about seeing 'Meet Dave' remember that it's Eddie Murphy up there. Eddie ‘Trading Places' Murphy. And does he need your hard-fought gas money? Not a lick. He's the highest grossing film star in history. So what if his movies sometimes suck tail pipes. In and around all the suckiness, he's really funny, born to do it, as if he's channeling it. And for that, he should be rewarded until death do him part.

Mr. Murphy, all kinds of brilliant, Ms. Jamie Lee Curtis and her perfect breasts, and Mr. Akroyd, of Bass-O-Matic fame

So! Un-rich people of the world, put aside your paltry survival issues. Pan the pans! Don't let Eddy Murphy be Hell Boy'd into movieland oblivion. Yeah, you can go and see a big-chested red-faced guy get drunk on Tecate and cream the bad guys. You probably have -- and got it out of your system. So now, do one for the gipper, whatever a gipper is, and see 'Meet Dave'. if not for Eddie Murphy, then, like I did (busted!) for the air conditioning.

BY ROBYN EWING for LA2DAY.COM

rae@la2day.com

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