The Adventures Of Pluto Nash

An abundance of noise, explosions, gunplay, chases, special effects, futuristic eye candy and star power (including John Cleese, Pam Grier and Peter Boyle) generates very little pure fun or excitement in this cluttered visit to the moon. Eddie Murphy stars as a freshly paroled criminal in the waning years of the 21st century. He saves a friend (Jay Mohr) from having cleaning fluid poured down his throat by thugs (lead by Burt Young) by buying his pal’s nightclub and paying off a $10 million debt. We then leap seven years ahead and thugs show up again (with The Matrix’s Joe Pantoliano making threats) to buy the lunar nightspot so a mysterious mob boss can turn it into a casino in the wake of legalized gambling. Nash refuses, his establishment is blown up and he and his antique robot bodyguard (Randy Quaid) and a female companion (Rosario Dawson) must neutralize the gang chieftain before his bumbling henchmen terminate them. Even a late clone twist to the story fails to resuscitate the proceedings.