Videogum » The Adventures Of Pluto Nash http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: The Adventures Of Pluto Nash http://videogum.com/21661/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_23/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/21661/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_23/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:12:50 +0000 Gabe I’d like to start this week by sharing with you an experience I had while watching The Adventures of Pluto Nash that goes a long way towards explaining why this movie, already widely considered a terrible movie, is indeed one of the worst movies of all time. Yes, it cost 120 million dollars to make but only took in 7 million at the box office (worldwide!). Yes, it’s Eddie Murphy at his money hungry anti-funny worst. But those two factors alone are not the whole story. Plenty of expensive Hollywood movies turn out to be flops, and Eddie Murphy has been working to destroy his reputation for years. Besides, as we’ve already seen with Hudson Hawk, the entire genre of action comedy is wide open to critiques of awfulness. My experience is this: while watching Pluto Nash last night there was a scene in Pluto’s nightclub and the song that was playing sounded an awful lot like Outkast’s “So Fresh So Clean.” That’s funny, I thought to myself. That song sounds an awful lot like Outkast’s “So Fresh So Clean”, but of course this movie was made in the mid-’90s. How else to explain its incomprehensibly corny depiction of a nonsensical future? A little while later, while the characters were on the run, there was a billboard behind them for SmartWater. That’s funny, I thought, SmartWater existed back in the mid-90s? Back in a time when a movie like this could have been made? Of course, The Adventures of Pluto Nash was released in 2002, so Outkast’s song was only strange in its placement for the fact that it was old news, and SmartWater was only just hitting the yuppies’ radar. It only SEEMS like this has to have been made back before people discovered laughter. 2002? Seriously? One likes to believe that one of the outcomes of 9/11 was, at least in the short-term, a refinement of our priorities, and a rejection of the impossibly bad. Not so, reminds The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Hollywood is still so bad at its job, it tells us.

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