Meet Dave is now in theaters! Make sure you head out and see it this weekend… Don’t worry about the reviews, we all know Elizabeth is the only reason to see it anyway.

The premiere for the film Meet Dave was held yesterday, July 8th in Los Angeles, CA. Elizabeth was in attendance and she looked lovely! I will be adding HQ and MQ images into our gallery later today, for now, check out some previews below.

Studio executives hope they’ve trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.

From May through mid-August, Hollywood will bank on the idea that there is at least one movie every week _ and sometimes two _ that you simply must see.

Summer features such box-office staples as Will Smith, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Jack Black, and brings back beloved characters such as Indiana Jones, Batman, Speed Racer, Carrie and her “Sex and the City” gal pals, the “Narnia” kids, the Incredible Hulk and two very different agent couples: paranormal troupers Mulder and Scully and comic spies Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.

A look at the lineup:

JULY 11: Brendan Fraser finally offers scientific proof that there is an albino dinosaur at the Earth’s core _ and he does it in 3-D.

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” is a modern twist on Jules Verne’s classic tale presented entirely in three-dimensional digital video that practically sets the characters and effects in the audience’s lap.

Gimmicky old 3-D films “made the brain and eyeballs do calisthenics. Frankly, it made you feel kind of queasy and ill,” Fraser said. “This allows you to live in the environment that the actors inhabit.”

The weekend’s other big name, Eddie Murphy, gets to inhabit his own weird environment _ himself _ in the comedy “Meet Dave.”

Murphy stars as the leader of a group of tiny aliens scouting Earth because their own race is endangered. They blend in with humanity by tooling about in a ship that looks just like Eddie Murphy.

“He’s robotic and not quite in control of his form, his human form,” said co-star Elizabeth Banks. “Eddie’s performance, he has a lot of naivete about the world around him. He comes off as being extremely strange and odd, and that naivete translates very nicely into charm.”

From the Urbana Daily Citizen

Have you ever meet someone and been like, oh my God, that person is so incredibly awkward, they can’t actually be a person, they must be a spaceship disguised as a person? And then you think for a second and you’re like, whoa, that would make a lot of sense except, like, who’s ever heard of a spaceship disguised as a person?

If you’re like us and this happens to you at least three or four times a week—or, more realistically, if you just happen to be an 8- to 12-year-old or a parent of one—Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film Meet Dave will definitely be of interest to you.

Murphy stars as Dave, a fellow who dresses oddly, has trouble talking to women, jaywalks, kicks cats, can’t dance, doesn’t know how to shake hands and sings really funny. But unlike everyone you know who fits that description, Dave has an excuse: He actually is a spaceship. A spaceship that looks like a human being. A spaceship manned by a crew of aliens (Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, an inexplicably British-accented Murphy, and others) as zany as they are tiny. A spaceship that falls in love with an Earth chick (Elizabeth Banks) after she hits him with her car.

See? It could happen!

Currently slated for a July 11 release, Meet Dave (née Starship Dave) was penned by Mystery Science Theater 3000 scribe Bill Corbett and longtime television writer/producer/director Rob Greenberg (Frasier, How I Met Your Mother)—which is actually the impetus for us writing about this film in the first place. We’re thinking their involvement will certainly liven up what could’ve otherwise been another mundane summer movie.

Watch the trailer:

Might we suggest that Corbett and fellow MST3K alums Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy give Dave one of their hilarious RiffTrax treatments? Why yes, we certainly might.

From Paste Magazine