Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to his last movie of the decade, Imagine That (2009)
Plot In A Paragraph: A workaholic Dad (Murphy) finds the solution to all his problems is in his daughter's imaginary world.
I actually enjoyed this one. OK following Meet Dave, the only way was up, due to the bar being set so low. But I did like it. OK, we've seen the workaholic Dad, who doesn't pay attention to his kids in countless movies, it over plays its message at times and Thomas Haden Church was seriously annoying, but overall it's an enjoyable 90 minute kid flick.
It's nice to see Murphy with Ronny Cox again, whilst Cox has aged a lot since their Beverly Hills Cop days, Murphy looks the same. Martin Sheen has a small role and is as reliable as ever. It's your typical family movie, and whilst it doesn't have an laugh out loud moments, I did find myself smiling a lot and it has a real charm to it.
It was a bad end to the decade, as Imagine That became the second Murphy movie in a row to not place on the top 100 grossers of the year, as it only grossed $16 million at the domestic box office. Personally I found this much better than the likes of Daddy Day Care, which did much better!! But it looks like audiences were tired of Murphy's family movies too.
Plot In A Paragraph: A workaholic Dad (Murphy) finds the solution to all his problems is in his daughter's imaginary world.
I actually enjoyed this one. OK following Meet Dave, the only way was up, due to the bar being set so low. But I did like it. OK, we've seen the workaholic Dad, who doesn't pay attention to his kids in countless movies, it over plays its message at times and Thomas Haden Church was seriously annoying, but overall it's an enjoyable 90 minute kid flick.
It's nice to see Murphy with Ronny Cox again, whilst Cox has aged a lot since their Beverly Hills Cop days, Murphy looks the same. Martin Sheen has a small role and is as reliable as ever. It's your typical family movie, and whilst it doesn't have an laugh out loud moments, I did find myself smiling a lot and it has a real charm to it.
It was a bad end to the decade, as Imagine That became the second Murphy movie in a row to not place on the top 100 grossers of the year, as it only grossed $16 million at the domestic box office. Personally I found this much better than the likes of Daddy Day Care, which did much better!! But it looks like audiences were tired of Murphy's family movies too.