"Meet Dave" Movie Trailer With Eddie Murphy and Mini-Eddie Murphy

Hot on the heels of the Meet Dave poster we get the Meet Dave movie trailer. Like I implied before, Eddie Murphy movies these days are pretty hit or miss. Now, I’m not one of those movie snobs that think all movies have to be on some sort of grand intellectual level to be enjoyable so I like some of Murphy’s movies that other internet movie snobs look down on. But I’m still undecided on this film. I think the concept is decent and could be played for some good laughs. The trailer is pretty decent. I’m just slightly afraid they’re going to go way over the top again and/or play to children (a type of comedy I’m not really a fan of).


In Meet Dave, Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy), newly arrived in New York City, may be the ultimate fish out of water. There’s something about him that’s not quite right – for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: “Dave� is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain. It’s Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave.

Basically, you have a captain of a ship (Eddie Murphy) that looks like a ship (that looks like Eddie Murphy) that somehow learns to think on its own and develops feelings for a woman (according to what I’ve read elsewhere) thereby endangering the mission and the ship’s crew. Yeah, I still don’t know what to think.

Meet Dave stars Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Banks, Mike O’Malley, Shawn Christian, Judah Friedlander (30 Rock), Ed Helms (The Office). It’ll be hitting theaters on July 11, 2008.

What do you think? Is this an Eddie Murphy that you might catch this summer?