Review of Meet Dave (2008) by Jack P — 02 Jan 2014

A moronic, unfunny failure. Apparantly Crow from MST3K isn't very good at creating films. Shame.

This review of Meet Dave (2008) was written by Jack P on 02 January 2014.

Meet Dave has generally received mixed reviews.

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