Meet Dave (2008) ft Rob Turnbull

"Welcome to Old Navy." On this episode of AT THE MOVIES IN THE NOUGHTIES (or 00s if you're into the whole brevity thing), Devon Elson had the pick of all the decade and went with this. Eddie Murphy plays a tiny alien who visits Earth inside a spaceship shaped like Eddie Murphy... Him and his crew need to recover a special orb that will drain our oceans for their survival, but Elizabeth Banks and her child show them the complexities and heart worth saving. There's also some jokes because it's meant to be a comedy, it's the 2008 Meet Dave. His special guest this week is Rob Turnbull! Co-host of You Have Been Watching: A British Sitcom Podcast, and the brand new DCU focused Podcast 52, Rob is also an ardent fan of all things Eddie Murphy and watched every one of his '00s films at the movies, he never said he loves all of them. Together they run through the filmography of Eddie and whether Meet Dave is especially great or terrible in comparison to his output, consider just how hard he was working in this and the myriad of ways the script lets him down, contemplate on whether these high-concept fantasy movies are an attempt to elevate him from the expectations of a black comedian, and even question if a Meet Dave remake is worth it... Host / Editor Devon Elson twitter.com/absolutetravist Guest Rob Turnbull twitter.com/Forducks Executive Producer A. J. Black Find the podcast on Linktr.ee: twitter.com/atthenoughties Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title and opening music: 'Just For Fun' by April Moon (c) epidemicsound.com 'Midside Notes' by Martin Landström (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices