Eddie Murphy

The Eddie Murphy Comedy Collection
$19.98
This set will contain the following films:

The Nutty Professor (1996)
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Bowfinger (1999)
Life (1999)

The Nutty Professor films are a mixed bag. They're both full of crude humor, but underneath all the jokes about flatulence, the first film is actually a sensitive movie about a good and intelligent man who is cursed by genetics to be fat and stay that way and who craves romance. His experiments result in a potion that allows him to either be thin, handsome, and suave - and amoral - or he can be his own sweet self and remain fat. The second movie just abandons most of the sweetness of the first movie in favor of being as crude as is humanly possible.

Bowfinger is a different kind of film for Eddie Murphy. In fact, in many ways it is more Steve Martin's film than it is Eddie Murphy's. Murphy plays two brothers - one is a successful film star - Kit Ramsey - that Martin's character (Bowfinger) is trying to have as the star of his low budget feature without Kit knowing it. Murphy also plays Jiff Ramsey, Kit's brother, who Bowfinger hires as a double for Kit in the long and stunt shots. It's a fairly clever satire on the film industry in general and on one religion in particular that possesses two things - no sense of humor and a large element of control over the stars in its congregation, of which Kit Ramsey is one.

Life is my least favorite film of the bunch, but that is probably because I've never cared for Martin Lawrence. However, I do have to admit he's easier to take here that usual because he actually comes across as someone who is not as hateful as he is in all of his other films. This is the story of two men (Lawrence and Murphy) who are sentenced to life for a murder they didn't commit after commiting a very petty crime back in the days of prohibition. The men start out disliking each other, but over the years a kind of friendship grows as they learn to survive in prison and look for ways to escape that never work out.

Saturday Night Live - The Best of Eddie Murphy (Bonus Edition)
$9.98
I've had this DVD before, I always thought that this was some of his best work.

Beverly Hills Cop Collection (Beverly Hills Cop / Beverly Hills Cop II / Beverly Hills Cop III)
$19.99
this was the most funniest, most action filled comedy i have ever seen! the actors here are wonderful in there classic roles! eddie's character axel foley wants to get revenge on the smugglers who smuggle drugs who kill his friend. mikey, played by james russo. (my own private idaho) the film is violent, and is very highly funny! while he enters beverly hills! meeting serge was hilarious perfect strarngers bronson pinchot was wonderful! and british actor steven berkoff (octopussy, a clockwork orange) as victor maitland, who is supposed to be a art expert, but, is a drug smuggler. ronny cox, john ashton and judge renhold are hilarious in there roles, as the cops who are mysterious of axel at first, but then all become buddies! i thought it was funny, when axel makes funny, sarcastic jokes throughout the film. there is also a cameo by damon wayans as a banana boy. this movie was hilarious. the chases between ashton an reinhold torwards murphy, and the two other cops banana in the tail pipe joke. this movie originally was going to star sylvester stallone! it wouldn't have worked, if he had the role. good thing they chose murphy. paul reiser is in it too. as well, as detroit city councilman gilbert r. hill, (gil hill) was hilarious in all of the cop films. this movie is hilarious, exciting, and refreshing murphy comedy! his most classic one.

Comedian
$7.99
I love Eddie Murphy on SNL, Bevery Hills Cop, etc., but this was not very funny. It's very dated material. Lots of jokes making fun of homosexuals that are no longer funny at all, if they ever were. It's faggot this and faggot that.