Shrek 2 (2004)
A sheer delight from beginning to end, Shrek 2 manages to be even better than its now classic predecessor in scope and humor value. Whether or not the pop references and modern jokes will stand the...
Tagged: Eddie Murphy
Daddy Day Care (2003)
You begin to wonder how someone as immensely talented as Eddie Murphy would be pigeonholed into buddy movies and films like Daddy Day Care, essentially family fare. I suppose given the kinds of things he...
Showtime (2002)
I suppose it may be true that if you’ve seen one buddy movie, you’ve seen ’em all. The “buddies” are usually two people who don’t particularly belong together and throughout have an inability to...
Shrek (2001)
With the exception of in-jokes taking jabs at family film industry leader Disney and their former monopoly in the animation industry, Shrek is a straight-forward, hip adventure. At the same time, while it may be derivative,...
Life (1999)
The story of two innocent men who served 65 years for a murder they had nothing to do with, framed by a local sheriff. The tale is told in flashbacks, about their life in...
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Eddie Murphy is back as nearly the entire cast of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, once again reminding us why he was the superstar that he was back in the 1980s. In this outing, Sherman (Murphy)...
Holy Man (1998)
The Good Buy Shopping Network’s rating are in the dumps until their producer (Goldblum) and his assistant (Preston) stumble across a street guru named G. (Murphy, ) who ends up on the set of...
48 Hrs. (1982)
In Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs., two escaped convicts end up killing a couple of officers, and fellow officer Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) must track them down. He enlists the help of another convict Reggie Hammond...
The Nutty Professor (1996)
One time unflappable box-office draw Eddie Murphy takes his first step to resurrecting his floundering film career with this tour de force in which he plays a 400-lb. chemistry professor named Sherman Klump, who...