IMAGINE THAT

Plot:

Eddie Murphy plays Evan, a high powered financial advisor that is in competition with co worker Johnny Whitefeather (Church) for the job of their resigning boss. The week that they are to provide presentations that will decide whether he gets the job, he must look after his daughter Olivia (Shahidi) who has a strong attachment to a blanket that allows her to talk to imaginary friends (due to the lack of attention from her father). When sHe draws and paste glitter on his work that he must present to his boss because she says her pretend friends told her to, he goes berserk and is expecting to get fired until his boss tells him that his projections were right on point with what see place on his assignment. He then begins to spend time with Olivia and her imaginary friends who continue to help him make successful projections for his job until he becomes obobsessedith the blanket himself.

Reel Talk:

This is the second movie (first being Meet Dave) that my assumption of Eddie Murphy was like what are you doing because most of his kid movies bomb. But just like Meet Dave which did bomb, this was a decent family movie. While Murphy's performance was a combination of a bunch of character roles from some of his past movies, his co-star Yara Shahidi who plays Olivia was so charming that you just gotta love her. Thomas Haden Church as Whitefeather was hilarious and the scene where he is with his son is insanely funny.
Overall this is a good family movie and should have been promoted around Father's Day. But now Eddie please get back to making successful action movies.

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church and Nicole Ari Parker
Directed by: Karey Kirk Patrick
Rated: PG

I give it 3 corn dogs

By: Corndog - The Reel Hustler