The 3rd key character is 7-year-old Yara Shahidi as Olivia, Evan's cute and bright daughter. We find out later that his heritage may have been a bit overblown. His chief competition is Thomas Haden Church as Johnny Whitefeather, who uses his Native American background and lots of double-speak to convince others that he has some special gift for analysis and investment advice. Rumors are the boss is retiring soon and Evan sees himself as the leading candidate to manage this Western division. Eddie Murphy is hot-shot financial professional Evan Danielson, in Denver. Cut it down by about 10 minutes and improve the flow of the story and it has a quite good message. It is hazardous to judge without actually knowing, but since it is an Eddie Murphy movie I am guessing that some of the unnecessarily slow or silly scenes were left in because of him. In fact, it is not a "bad" movie at all, but could have been quite a bit better. The featured comment today calls this "the worst movie of the year" which is quite clearly wrong. Danielson, and this offering earns an above-average mark. Couple this nostalgia with IMAGINE THAT's perfect placing of the Beatle's song "Nowhere Man" (performed here by Landon Pigg) and the film's refusal to tuck Evan neatly back in bed with his estranged Mrs. I was able to relate to the over-the-topness here, as I once had to race half a mile across a shopping mega-mall to retrieve my own son's tattered binkie remnant from the the shadows below the back seat of a new black pick-up truck he'd crawled through while it was on display in the mall's horse-track-sized center aisle. Somehow, Evan's daughter Olivia's binkie blanket (or "goo-gaa," here) and her four imaginary royal friends put Danielson back on the winning track. However, Murphy gets a fresh start in IMAGINE THAT as estranged husband and father Evan Danielson, who has inexplicably become the patsy of a sham Native-American shaman in the Denver investment firm Evan's headlined for nine years. from DADDY DAY CAMP in DADDY DAY COLLEGE. After last summer's MEET DAVE, it wouldn't be hard to picture Eddie Murphy being forced to reprise his DADDY DAY CARE role, replacing Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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