Imagine That (2009): Dir: Karey Kirkpatrick / Cast: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shadidi, Thomas Hayden Church, Nicole Parker, Ronny Cox: Eddie Murphy in another terrible family film. Imagine that! It regards relationships, particularly parental as Murphy learns that his daughter's treasured blanket holds the answers to his career. Director Karey Kirkpatrick doesn't spin much insight into the luck factor other than the daughter that talks to imaginary Princesses. She could have been carrying on a conversation with a snot rag and had about as much success and look no less intelligent. Murphy sings, dances and makes a major career blunder
AGAIN! He is struggling between two audiences and clashing his adult viewers with a family audience is proving difficult. Thomas Hayden Church is equally foolish as a competing co-worker. Yara Shahidi plays the daughter who needs major shock therapy. She needs to develops a hobby that doesn't involve conversations with objects. Nicole Parker plays her mother and that must be a task in itself. What she needs to do is rush her daughter to the nearest psychiatrist and get her thoroughly checked over. There is nothing of value in this cheap laughless spectacle. Even its father daughter message disappears like the intelligence that went into this in the first place. Theme vanishes with each passing charade until viewers imagine Murphy's career no more. Score: 1 / 10
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