Ugh. Meet Dave was one of the latter-day high concept Eddie Murphy comedies, the movies he only signed on for because there was a massive cheque involved. In the film he plays dual roles; one being a life-sized robot that is being piloted by tiny aliens, while the other is the captain controlling the movements. The robot has to walk around New York and learn to mimic humans, which paves the way for a lot of stale comedy. When Banks accidently runs the robot over they form a friendship, with the aliens learning to understand human relationships from her. Gina is one of those thankless love interest parts that seemingly every actress has to play at some point. She plays second fiddle to Murphys antics, whose mugging needs to dominate every scene. It cant even be said that shes the best thing about it, as she doesnt even try to inject something interesting into the role. Shes perfectly happy to let Murphy do his thing, while all she can do is react like shes in a bad sitcom. Meet Dave is a comedy that she like everyone else is better off forgetting about.
