10:15AM Defamer Hollywood | We needed a little time today to digest our feelings after the miserable box-office showing of
Meet Dave, whose free-fall over the weekend resulted in the ugliest opening of Eddie Murphy’s career. Not having seen it, we have to assume that $5.1 million gross aside, the film is at least superior to
Norbit (not to mention
Vampire in Brooklyn,
Pluto Nash and a sprinkling of other Murphy misfires over the years). We’d even venture to say it’ll be better than
Beverly Hills Cop IV, the PG-rated abomination to which
Murphy and Brett Ratner are attached for Paramount. Certainly it’s better than
The Love Guru, whose own beleaguered comic icon Mike Myers had flowers and a thank-you note on Murphy’s porch by sometime Sunday afternoon.
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