The Adventures of Pluto Nash

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 American science fictionaction comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese. The film was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and Village Roadshow Pictures and released in the United States on August 16, 2002 by Warner Bros. Pictures.

A critical and financial failure, the film was universally panned by moviegoers and critics alike. It is notable for being considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, grossing only $7.1 million on a budget of $100 million.

Plot

In 2080, there is a colony on the Moon called Little America. Businessman, entrepreneur, retired smuggler, and ex-convict Pluto Nash buys a nightclub in an attempt to fulfill his long-time wish and to prevent the murder of the club's previous owner, his old friend Anthony Frankowski, by mobsters Gino and his nephew, Larry. With the help of his friend Miguel and an android named Bruno, Pluto cleans it up and turns it into a very popular nightclub.

Seven years later in 2087, a young woman named Dina Lake, the daughter of a friend of Pluto's, Nicky Sticks, is stranded on the Moon and needs to earn money for transport back to Earth. Pluto gives her a job as a server. Pluto is accosted by Mogan and Kelp, henchmen of mysterious entrepreneur and businessman Rex Crater, who wants to buy the club. When Pluto refuses, the henchmen use bombs to destroy the club. Pluto, Dina, and Bruno manage to escape.

Pluto's friend Rowland, a retired police detective who also knows Pluto's mother, Flura, learns that Rex Crater has associates linked to human cloning. While Pluto and Dina investigate further, Crater's assassins strike, but Pluto and Dina escape by hijacking a limo driven by a holographic chauffeur named James.

Their investigation further links Michael "Mike" Zoroaster Marucci to Crater. They are again attacked and chased by Crater's henchmen; they barely escape and are then rescued by Felix Laranga, a local smuggler who idolizes Pluto Nash. They infiltrate Crater's casino/hotel at Moon Beach.

Pluto finally confronts Crater, who reveals himself to be a clone of Pluto. Crater has shot both Marucci and Dr. Runa Pendankin into orbit and established his own criminal enterprise. When Mogan and Kelp arrive, Crater kills them for their incompetence. He and Pluto then fight, with Crater ultimately being thrown through a window to his death.

Sometime later, a celebration is held at the fully renovated Club Pluto, where Dina puts on a performance as a singer, with Nash as the owner once again.

Cast

  • Eddie Murphy as Pluto Nash, a successful businessman, a retired smuggler and ex-convict who deals in animals, clothing and drugs.
    • Murphy also portrays Rex Crater, a criminal entrepreneur and businessman operating out of Moon Beach and Pluto Nash's clone created by Marucci and the geneticist Dr. Runa Pendankin from the DNA taken from Pluto's removed appendix back when Pluto was incarcerated.
  • Randy Quaid as Bruno, an old, inferior 63 Deluxe model android, Pluto's childhood friend, and smuggling partner.
  • Rosario Dawson as Dina Lake, an aspiring singer from Salt Lake City and daughter of Pluto's old friend Nicky Sticks who is stranded on the moon and asks Pluto for help finding a job to earn money for a ticket back to Earth.
  • Joe Pantoliano as Mogan, one of Rex Crater's henchmen.
  • Jay Mohr as Anthony Frankowski / Tony Francis, a former Polish singer who owned a washed-up polka club until Pluto bought it. Francis relocated to Moon Beach.
  • Luis Guzmán as Felix Laranga, a smuggler from Puerto Rico and fan of Pluto Nash who deals in animals and contraband casino chips and dice.
  • James Rebhorn as Belcher, Rex Crater's personal assistant who used to work for Marucci.
  • Peter Boyle as Rowland, a retired police detective with connections to the FBI and an old friend of Pluto and Flura.
  • Burt Young as Gino, a mobster that nearly killed Tony Francis through battery acid ingestion.
  • Miguel A. Nunez Jr. as Miguel, Pluto's assistant.
  • Pam Grier as Flura Nash, the mother of Pluto Nash.
  • John Cleese as James, the holographic chauffeur of the limousine that Pluto hijacks.
  • Lillo Brancato as Larry, a mobster who works for Gino, his uncle.
  • Victor Varnado as Kelp, one of Rex Crater's henchmen.
  • Alissa Kramer and Heidi Kramer as Gina and Filomina Francis, Tony's cloned wives (he does not care which is the original).
  • Illeana Douglas as Dr. Mona Zimmer, the operator of a cosmetic surgery station and an apprentice of Dr. Pendankin.
  • Stu "Large" Riley as Club Pluto Bouncer, an unnamed bouncer that is loyal to Pluto.
  • Serge Houde as an FBI Agent
  • Terry Haig as Security Guard, who leads the arrest of Bruno for accidentally breaking a robotic slot machine.
  • Cornelia Sharpe as a Tony Francis Fan
  • Mark Camacho as Robot holding cell clerk who guards Bruno pending the repairs to the robotic slot machine.
  • Alec Baldwin as Michael "Mike" Zoroaster Marucci (uncredited), the mobster who created Rex Crater to be his public face.[3]

Development

Neil Cuthbert's script had been in development with producer Martin Bregman since at least 1983 under the shorter title Pluto Nash. Directors Rick Rosenthal and Peter Faiman were attached to the project at different times. Various stars including Harrison Ford were rumored to have considered doing the film. Eddie Murphy became attached to the film while it was in development at Castle Rock Entertainment. The company, which had previously worked with director Ron Underwood on City Slickers, sent Underwood the script. Underwood signed on to the film after the release of his film Mighty Joe Young. Different writers were hired to revise the script over a period of several months, but Eddie Murphy "kept rejecting the scripts," according to Underwood. Murphy asked for a "straight" script, like one that would be written for Sylvester Stallone or Harrison Ford, and said that he would "bring the comedy." Underwood delivered this to Murphy but believed that the script still had "problems" and hired another writer to continue to work on it during production.[4]

Production

Ron Underwood was dissatisfied with the results of the film as he was shooting it. "I knew we didn't have the kind of wit and the fun that I would want...I felt that it was not really working fully...But it wasn't very obvious how to correct it." He praised the talents of the cast and crew and said that he enjoyed working with Eddie Murphy, but said that Murphy "wasn't feeling that funny, I don't think."[4] The result was that Underwood was on the production for four years. A review of a version of the film (with no special effects) that was published on Ain't It Cool News in January 2001 did not help matters, as Castle Rock Entertainment became spooked and commissioned two weeks of reshoots in Los Angeles that pushed the film's budget to $100 million and caused it to miss a release date intended to be in April 2001.

Reception

Critical response

The Adventures of Pluto Nash was critically panned. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 79th in the 100 worst 2000s decade movies list,[5] with a rating of 6% based on 89 reviews. The critical consensus states, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash is neither adventurous nor funny, and Eddie Murphy is on autopilot in this notorious box office bomb."[6] On Metacritic, it holds a 12 out of 100 based on 12 reviews, meaning “overwhelming dislike”. Joe Leydon was one of the few critics to give it a positive review calling it "a prodigious popcorn flick that may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since Town and Country".[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C−" on an A+ to F scale.[8]

Pluto Nash was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awardsin 2003 including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Eddie Murphy), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Couple (Murphy and himself cloned), but failed to win any.[9][10] It was later nominated for Worst 'Comedy' of Our First 25 Years at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2005, but lost to Gigli.[11][12]

سخر إيدي ميرفي من نفسه في مقابلة مع باربرا والترز ، قائلاً: "أعرف الشخصين أو الثلاثة الذين أعجبهم هذا الفيلم." [ 13 ]

وعن ردود الفعل على الفيلم، قال جو بانتوليانو: "عادةً لا يمكنك التنبؤ بما إذا كان الفيلم سيئًا أم لا، لكن في هذا الفيلم كان الأمر واضحًا. وأعتقد أن المخرج رون أندروود كان ضحيةً لذلك، لأنه رجلٌ جيد. ولكن بسبب المادة والأسلوب الذي عمل به بعض الممثلين، لم نكن على المستوى المطلوب، كما تعلمون؟ كان هناك الكثير من التلاعب والخداع. لذلك، لم أتفاجأ. بل تفاجأت بأن الفيلم كان أفضل مما توقعت." [ 14 ]

أعرب المخرج رون أندروود عن أسفه لأن الفيلم لم يكن يحتوي على "جزء أساسي من سرد القصة مثل أزمة منتصف العمر" وقال إنه يعتقد أن "الفيلم لم يكن جيدًا جدًا". [ 4 ]

شباك التذاكر

اعتُبر فيلم "مغامرات بلوتو ناش" فاشلاً تجارياً ، حيث بلغت ميزانيته التقديرية 100 مليون دولار، بينما بلغت إيراداته المحلية 4,420,080 دولاراً، وإيراداته العالمية 2,683,893 دولاراً. وبلغ إجمالي إيراداته العالمية 7,103,973 دولاراً. [ 15 ] وفي عام 2014، صنّفت صحيفة لوس أنجلوس تايمز الفيلم ضمن قائمة أغلى الأفلام التي مُنيت بفشل تجاري على الإطلاق. [ 16 ]

الوسائط المنزلية

تم إصدار الفيلم على أقراص DVD و VHS في 19 نوفمبر 2002، بواسطة شركة Warner Home Video .

مراجع

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  2. ↑ بلوتو ناش، مؤرشف في 18 مايو 2012، في أرشيف الإنترنت (Wayback Machine) على موقع Box Office Mojo
  3. ↑ جونز، بيث (17 أغسطس 2002). "«بلوتو ناش»: «المستقبل ليس مضحكاً» . صحيفة روانوك تايمز . روانوك، فيرجينيا . مؤرشف من الأصل في 2 نوفمبر 2002. تم الاطلاع عليه في 9 أبريل 2012 .
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  7. ↑Leydon, Joe (August 18, 2002). "The Adventures of Pluto Nash". The Moving Picture Show. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  8. ↑"Find CinemaScore"(Type "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  9. ↑"23rd annual Razzie Award nominees". UPI. February 10, 2003. Archived from the original on January 17, 2025. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
  10. ↑"'Winners' at 23rd annual Razzie Awards". UPI. March 23, 2003. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
  11. ↑"Halle's Berry Bad CATWOMAN, Oliver's Stoned Epic ALEXANDER Lead 25th RAZZIE® Noms as 2004's Worst". Razzies.com. Archived from the original on August 29, 2005. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
  12. ↑"Halle's Feline Fiasco CATWOMAN and President's FAHRENHEIT Blunders Tie for 25th RAZZIE® Dis-Honors". Razzies.com. March 1, 2005. Archived from the original on March 1, 2005. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
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  14. ↑"Joe Pantoliano was in Risky Business and the Sopranos and has stories to prove it". The A.v. Club. May 3, 2012. Archived from the original on October 15, 2024. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
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