The Adventures of Pluto Nash: The Man on the Moon aka Pluto Nash aka Adventures of Pluto Nash aka The Adventures of Pluto Nash is an Australian-American science fiction action comedy. It entered theaters on August 16, 2002 and became one of the biggest box office bombs in history with overwhelmingly negative reviews.
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Synopsis[]
Pluto Nash, a former smuggler and current owner of Club Pluto in the Lunar colony of Little America, is approached by two messengers from a man named Rex Carter who wants to buy Club Pluto. When Pluto refuses the messengers trash the club. Pluto then makes it his mission to find Rex and learns that the man's identity is very well hidden as no one has seen his face. It becomes quite a mystery and Pluto along with his associates soon finds Carter's gambling casino and learn of his true identity - he is a clone of Pluto himself. Carter kills the messengers that trashed the club, and tells Pluto of his grand plan and how the purchase will benefit both of them - Pluto getting a life he's always wanted and Rex, with the resources to make Club Pluto what Pluto himself has wanted it to be (Rex inherited some of Pluto's memories and thus shares Pluto's ambition). But Pluto, at first deceiving Rex into thinking he's for the plan, turns on him and in the struggle Rex is killed and Pluto takes control of Rex's enterprise.
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Designing the Setting[]
The Adventures of Pluto Nash took an uncommon approach to it's science fiction. Wanting a retro-science fiction feel while maintaining modern aesthetics the setting was created to utilize recent speculations about the future that where likely to feel outdated even in the film's decade of release or so outlandish as to be humorous. These include the idea that then real estate mogul Donald Trump would create a lunar resort (Carter's gambling casino is located in a settlement that sprung up around such), the prospect that Hillary Clinton would become President (depicted on United States currency in the film), and a belief that plastic would replace paper at the printer. To further humor with a jab at American consumerism and tendency to use wonderous technology for frivolous things the prospect of a future market in cryogenically frozen 'order by mail' pets was included.