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 | | 7. Coming To America (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Eddie Murphy Director: John Landis | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 5/20/2008 |  | Coming to America - DVD Review By: Eric Meyerson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/28/2007 8:23 PM | |
In 1988, with his stock trading at an all-time high, Eddie Murphy outdid even himself with Coming to America. In the wake of a triptych of movies (The Golden Child, Beverly Hills Cop II, and the standup flick Eddie Murphy: Raw) hated by critics but consumed voraciously by his expanding audience, Murphy ditched the vulgar street-smart routine for African royalty and New York romance. And Coming to America became Murphy's biggest hit at the time in spite of pure, unadulterated wholesomeness. read the full review | |
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 | | 9. Eagle vs. Shark (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Jemaine Clement Loren Horsley Director: Taika Waititi | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 1/8/2008 |  | Eagle vs Shark - DVD Review By: Jay Antani - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/7/2008 3:59 PM | |
The only measure of a comedy is whether you laughed, and how hard. As comedies go, the Kiwi import Eagle vs Shark, doesn't register more than halfway up the comedy meter. Writer-director Taika Waititi manages a sprinkle of chuckles, a couple of guffaws, but, mostly, while watching it, I felt as if I were a polite judge at an audition, unable to leave or bark "Next!" for fear of hurting its feelings. It's offbeat, I'll give you that. Terminally offbeat. But it rests a bit too comfortably on its geeked-out charms and sweet intentions to ever really carve out an "attitude" for itself, or come up with enough inventive ideas to make it worthwhile. Everything Eagle vs Shark tries to do, Napoleon Dynamite already did, and did better, funnier. read the full review | |
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