Meet Dave Critic Reviews

The kind of bland, generic, high-concept midsummer comedy that drives a critic to the thesaurus in search of new ways to say "vapid."Read the full review

If only the movie had heeded its own advice and tried to be different from the standard formula.Read the full review

This is made-for-TV material dressed up by Eddie Murphy's participation into a theatrical release.Read the full review

Aimed squarely at the same family audiences that flocked to Murphy's "Doctor Dolittle" comedies, this is a lightly amusing and surprisingly sweet Fox release.Read the full review

Dumbfoundingly erratic, for the most part, but smart and funny from time to time.Read the full review

Proven comic talents like Judah Friedlander and Ed Helms make up much of Murphy's crew, but apart from speaking in contraction-free spaceman-ese, the film doesn't give them anything funny to do.Read the full review

Though mildly amusing, Murphy's two characters in Meet Dave -- a wee captain and a humanoid spaceship -- neither tax nor stretch him.Read the full review

Eddie Murphy's amusingly out of this world in this otherwise tired vehicle.Read the full review

this unfairly maligned sci-fi comedy testifies that Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise.Read the full review