A Year of Garbage Movies #85, “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” (2002)

I have two theories about the creation of this movie.

1. Hollywood tried to use a Moon Stone on Eddie Murphy so he would evolve into Wesley Snipes, but it didn’t work.
2. There was a The Fifth Element video game planned for the Sega Dreamcast, but it got scrapped and they used the leftover CGI to make this movie instead.

Hey guys! I remembered that the Smart Select tool exists, but not how to use it effectively!

Look, I’m a simple man. I see Randy Quaid is in a movie, I watch it. It reminds me of a simpler time when his antics were on-screen fun and not…you know, what they are now in real life.

The Adventures of Pluto Nash isn’t a great movie, especially considering its massive budget of $100 million, but I don’t see any of the egregious flaws that most of the movies on this list have. I seem to be in the minority opinion on this, but I suspect the effect here is similar to Furry Vengeance, which I had to watch earlier this year. A meme developed around the poor quality of the movie and everyone seems to have just jumped on the bandwagon, leaving anyone out of the loop a little confused about the vitriol poured on it in the comments section.

Pros:

• Probably the last painful movie I’ve watched by far
• Confirmation that I’m not crazy and Pam Griere just didn’t age for around 20…