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Dave (1993)
Rate:
8
Viewed:
1/05, 8/18, 6/22
8/18:
Dave is a winner because the story is clever and it also has Kevin Kline.
Yet the movie doesn't work for some reasons.
One, it's too simplistic. U.S. President doesn't have full power to do whatever he wants. That's why there are
checks and balances.
Two, whenever big changes are made, the president has just lost the support of his major donors who'll in turn
expose him for what he actually is, and that's bad news.
Three, it fails to meet the hot topics head-on. How will Dave look when he comes up with answers that'll piss off
half of the audience?
Four, the longer the fake Bill Mitchell keeps it up, the sooner the people are going to sense something that's
amiss about him.
Regardless, Dave is a good movie with a nice star-studded cast which includes Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver,
Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Charles Grodin, Ving Rhames, and Ben Kingsley.
All in all, suspend the disbelief, and you'll find Dave a charming comedy about politics, thanks to Kevin
Kline.
6/22:
Dave is an enjoyable "what if?" political movie in the same vein of
Gabriel Over the White House.
It helps to have Kevin Kline on board to make the concept work. The rest of the cast is excellent. But I don't buy
the whole thing for a second because of backdoor deals. Screw up any of them, and the president will find himself
assassinated just like JFK. Here's a fun fact: former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died from a heart attack at
70 while having a sexual intercourse with his 25-year-old aide Megan Marshak, and there was a massive cover-up by
the family and New York newspapers about it.
All in all, Dave is a perfect vehicle for Kevin Kline.