Then there's the input from Warrington and Reginald Hudlin, producer and director respectively, who succeed in creating a comedy which, unusually for a Murphy film, also exists around him.
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03/18/08
Boomerang (1992)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:10
Rotten:16
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is a successful young marketing executive who has never lacked for attention from women. The cocky ladies' man views each new conquest as another notch on the holster... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry, David Alan Grier
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Reviews for Boomerang
Top CriticThe film is far too slick to be ineffective, but its attempts to play with the sex-war theme are often unbelievably crass.
06/24/06
Top CriticGivens, Lawrence and Berry all put in enjoyable performances, and while Murphy can no longer match those memorable early roles, he's on good form here.
05/24/03
Top CriticIt's not even funny. Nor does it contain half the wit or charm as the old Doris Day sex comedies it so resembles. In fact, it's downright mean-spirited toward women, as is Murphy's wont.
11/09/03
Murphy gives his most appealing performance to date, using his smug, self-satisfied, sly smile as a joke on his own well-known screen persona.
01/01/00
In Boomerang Eddie Murphy straitjackets himself in an ill-fitting comedy vehicle that's desperately in need of a reality check.
03/18/08
Top CriticDelivers laughs, and lots of them.
01/01/04
Whatever [Murphy] was thinking during the dark days of his career slump, it seems to have paid off handsomely.
01/01/00
Top CriticA witless, sexist, offensive mishmash that is surprisingly inept, considering all the high-power talent involved.
01/01/00
Boomerang is the funniest, most sophisticated movie of Eddie Murphy's career.
01/01/00
There's something paradoxical about the ease he radiates in playing a man who is supposed to be a smashing success. As an underdog, Mr. Murphy worked much harder.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe general idea is to exploit a certain amount of role reversal, and Reginald Hudlin, who directed House Party, does a fairly good job of making this fun.
03/18/08
For all the sex talk in Boomerang, there's very little nudity. The only thing naked is Murphy's vanity.
06/06/01
This movie has a charming Eddie Murphy, a slick and grown-up comedian. Most of his movies have no trace of this man.
04/28/03
More interesting than entertaining and too long by far.
03/18/08
Top CriticSilly. Simple. Eddie was better than this.
10/04/05
Remember one thing...........coordinate!
01/01/05
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11/15/02
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01/09/04
No review available.
09/29/03
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