Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
by Andy Breckman, Claude Kerven, Dave Wilson
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Actor: Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, James Downey, Robin Duke, Sheree AliDirector: Andy Breckman, Claude Kerven, Dave Wilson
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Eddie Murphy
Producer: Dick Ebersol
Producer: Ken Aymong
Producer: Michael Shoemaker
Writer: Michael O'Donoghue
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 77 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
DVD Review: Comedy ages like cream...
Summary: 3 Stars
Having seen Beverly Hills Cop about 10 times & knowing that Eddie Murphy was a good comic in his day, I thought I couldn't go far wrong getting a 'best of'. However (as 'christ_monkey' has pointed out) this is not necessarily his finest material & most of the sketches are 80's satire, rather than timeless classics.
To be fair there are flashes of brilliance, such as the Jesse Jackson 'Hymietown' Motown parody, the 'become a ho' skit, the 5th member of the Beatles interview, AND (best of all) the Mr White mockumentary. The last two of these are definitely classics and the mockmentary of Eddie Murphy donning white make-up & spying on white-folk has to be one of the best skits I've seen in a while.
Unfortunately there is also a lot of material that has aged & some which is just not funny. An example of this is the 'Buck Wheat' shooting which seems to be a parody of news channel's showing the same clips of assassinations over & over & over, but just comes over as lengthy and boring (to the point where I fast forwarded about 5 minutes of it). There is also other drivel, like a sketch where Murphy is dressed as a big green pork chop & one where he talks with a guy in a pub dressed as an old man.
There are other bits & pieces such as 'Black History minute', some Stevie Wonder parodies & various outtakes, but about 70% of the DVD is worth avoiding as the references are now obscure & the material is often poor.
So, if you want a decent DVD of Eddie Murphy, then I'd recommend his stand-up material (esp Raw) over this stuff any day. And, if you haven't seen them, then you simply must watch the two Beverly Hills Cop films. Some say there is a third one, but these people also say that Dogs can't look up... ;)
Description of Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
In the early 80s Saturday Night Live came back alive and the reason was Eddie Murphy. It's all here-Gumby Buckwheat Little Richard Simmons a dip in James Brown's Hot Tub. Pay a visit to Mr. Robinson's neighborhood and see the best of Velvet Jones Stevie Wonder and more!System Requirements: Running Time 66 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 031398115243 Manufacturer No: LG1152DBestsellers in DVD
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