THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH (2002) ** Eddie Murphy, lunar bar owner. I'd hoped for better, but feared much worse. Eddie, man, Eddie don't always show up, or show the right place, or show up the same, but when he's on, man, Eddie can be a very bad dude, and very funny. A funny bad-ass. So you're a fool if you, yourself, show up without increasingly dilapidated high hopes. Some of the jokes about what the moon will be like in 2080 are funny, Randy Quaid makes a good robot, and the John Cleese and Pam Grier cameos are appropriately encouraging. With all these gangsters runnin' around, and having seen Luis Guzman in the credits, there's maybe too much time available to await his arrival. When he does arrive he's not the usual intimidating dude, which is good because he's a happy partyin' Puerto Rican who single-handed jumpstarts the action on a more copasetic plane. It's all really just some background room for Eddie to ruminate upon himself anyway, and I wouldn't read too much into that climactic fight thang. Nah, I've got more hope than ever for the aesthetic potentialities of moon colonization, after this.
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