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All Eddie Murphy Movies Ranked
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Eddie Murphy’s movie career came roaring out of the gate in the early ’80s, with three yearly successive Certified Fresh classics in a row: 48 HRS, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop. His presence represented a shake-up in the comedy status quo: Provocative jokes, tough action, and even some social commentary. Combined with his other seminal ’80s movie, Coming to America, Murphy was the king of American comedy. And if you needed even more raw (literally) material, you could turn to his hard-hitting stand-up movies.
Harlem Nights was a highlight in his immediate post-America career, if only in having Murphy in the director’s chair, and luring Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx into the same movie. But it was the softening of Murphy’s image that propelled him into the blockbuster stage of his career with The Nutty Professor, where he performs seven separate roles. Along with roles in Mulan, Dr. Dolittle, and Shrek, suddenly every kid out there knew his name. (The Golden Child apparently had not worked.) In-between, Murphy was still able to put out more adult-oriented movies like Bowfinger and Life.
But the cracks began to show with The Adventures of Pluto Nash, one of
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The 21 best (and worst) Eddie Murphy movies
8. Daddy Day Care (2003)
Look, there's nothing wrong with making family-friendly films. Many actors are more than happy to make movies that their kids can see. And, for the most part, family films are profitable at the box office. Murphy certainly had a winning formula with most of his kid flicks, but Daddy Day Care exemplifies the commerce over art theory that seemed to drive most of his career moves in the early-2000s.
Seeing Murphy flop around as a downsized corporate exec forced to open a home daycare for annoying rugrats is downright dispiriting, as you're left wondering why he would squander his gifts in junk like this, save for the salary and back-end profits. Somehow, this tepid film spawned a three-movie franchise (minus Murphy).
7. Metro (1997)
Though one of Murphy's biggest successes came by portraying a cop, he hasn't always stuck the landing in other policeman roles through the years. In part, because it's difficult to recapture that Axel Foley magic, but it's also hard to imagine someone as unserious as Murphy ever becoming — or succeeding — as a law enforcement type. That disconnect is on full display in this woeful action-comedy.
Murphy stars as Scott Roper, a fast-talking hos