Eddie Murphy Archives

The Golden Child (1986)

Rating: ★

Mar 18, 2003Asian Supernatural Quest/Comedy

One of Hollywood's misguided attempts to appropriate the Wu Xia film. This is turned into an Eddie Murphy comedy vehicle where neither his live wire presence nor the fantasy elements gel together

Director: Michael Ritchie

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong

Category: Fantasy

18 March 20035 March 2026 by Roog

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Rating: ★★

Nov 24, 2002Vampire Comedy

An odd mismatch of talent where Wes Craven directs Eddie Murphy as a vampire who arrives in present-day New York. Craven and Murphy seem to drown either;s distinctive voices out

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, …

Category: Horror

24 November 200220 March 2020 by Roog

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 11, 2000Personality Transformation Formula Comedy

Remake of the Jerry Lewis film is a comedic tour-de-force for Eddie Murphy as he swings between a shy 400 lb professor and a manic, testostoronally charged health junkie

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, Dave Chappelle, Larry Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 March 200022 January 2025 by Roog

Dr Dolittle (1998)

Rating: ★

Apr 16, 1999Doctor That Can Speak to Animals

Complete and utter bastardisation of Hugh Lofting's charming Doctor Dolittle stories, which are turned into a modern comedy with Eddie Murphy and talking animals doing lots of pee and poop jokes

Director: Betty Thomas

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Oliver Platt, Kristen Wilson, Kyla Pratt, …

Category: Fantasy

16 April 199918 January 2025 by Roog

Mulan (1998)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 10, 1999Disney Animation/Chinese Legend

Disney animated film based on the Chinese legend of the girl who posed as a warrior. Unlike the similar historically-based Pocahontas, this emerges as well rounded and satisfying

Director: Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft

Actors: Ming Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B.D. Wong, James Hong, …

Category: Fantasy

10 April 199925 November 2025 by Roog

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 30, 2000Rejuvenation Formula Comedy

Sequel to the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor. That film's tour-de-force was a scene with Murphy playing all the members of his family. Here the family have been brought to the fore. Murphy's performance and the effects are expectedly great but the plot is all over the place

Director: Peter Segal

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 200010 September 2024 by Roog

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2001Doctor That Can Speak to Animals

A sequel to the Eddie Murphy Dr Dolittle remake. This is still an insult to the original stories but under director Steve Carr at least proves a more amiable comedy than the first film did

Director: Steve Carr

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Raven-Symone, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, …

Category: Fantasy

19 June 200124 January 2026 by Roog

Shrek (2001)

Rating: ★★★★

May 22, 2001Animation/Fairytale Spoof

Before this was spun out into a series of ho-hum sequels, the original was an animated film that burst with a freshness and a series of winning voice characterisations

Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, …

Category: Fantasy

22 May 200113 August 2021 by Roog

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2003Lunar Comedy-Thriller

Huge flop comedy for Eddie Murphy in which he plays a nightclub owner on The Moon. There is an almost good SF film hiding inside and depiction of a surprisingly detailed Lunar culture but the unnfunny comedy elements kill it

Director: Ron Underwood

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 200311 November 2025 by Roog

I Spy (2002)

Rating: ★

Feb 17, 2003Spy Comedy/TV Series Remake

Painfully unfunny big screen revival of the 1960s spy tv series. This has been reduced to a series of plotless gags that involve Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson doing nothing except bickering with each other

Director: Betty Thomas

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 February 200310 April 2026 by Roog

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Rating: ★½

Apr 6, 2004Haunted House Comedy

Lightweight film based around the Disney theme park attraction that becomes a Eddie Murphy comedy where he and his family enter a big old mansion that proves to be haunted

Director: Rob Minkoff

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, …

Category: Horror

6 April 20042 April 2026 by Roog

Shrek 2 (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2004Animation/Fairytale Spoof

Shrek was a fresh and original hit. The first of four insipid sequels, this seems to merely coast by on our liking of the characters while upping the fairytale parody

Director: Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

5 July 20045 December 2024 by Roog

Shrek the Third (2007)

Rating: ★★

Jun 24, 2007Animation/Fairytale Spoof

The third of the Shrek films settles in with a formulaic blandness where the characters turn up more because everyone expects them to than the film finds much for them to do

Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

24 June 20077 September 2025 by Roog

Meet Dave (2008)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 31, 2008Eddie Murphy as a Spaceship Comedy

Off-the wall Eddie Murphy comedy in which he plays an alien spaceship disguised as a human come to Earth. All the fun comes from watching Murphy’s wacky antics, which buoy it up over its weaker moments

Director: Brian Robbins

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Pat Kilbane, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 200831 May 2025 by Roog

Imagine That (2009)

Rating: ★★

Mar 3, 2010Stock Predictions from a Child's Invisible Companions

Eddie Murphy in another of the lame flops that marked his career in the 2000s where he plays a stockbroker who gets stock tips from his daughter's imaginary companion

Director: Karey Kirkpatrick

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Ronny Cox, Nicole Ari Parker, …

Category: Fantasy

3 March 201015 April 2026 by Roog

Shrek Forever After (2010)

Rating: ★

Jun 19, 2010Animation/Fairytale Spoof

The fourth of the Shrek films. By this point, the freshness and originality of the first film has been buried under animated film formula, while the plot is a tired rehash of It's a Wonderful Life

Director: Mike Mitchell

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

19 June 20105 December 2024 by Roog

A Thousand Words (2012)

Rating: ★

Mar 2, 2012Man Has a Thousand Words Before He Dies Comedy

Eddie Murphy's presence is not enough to lift the lame premise of this comedy where he is given a curse where he has a thousand words to say before he dies … a film that has a soggy marshmallow heart rather than one that lets Murphy loose to do what he does best

Director: Brian Robbins

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis, Clark Duke, …

Category: Fantasy

2 March 201213 December 2023 by Roog

Candy Cane Lane (2023)

Rating: ★★

Dec 16, 2023Christmas Film

Eddie Murphy – one of the funniest talents of the 1980s – has been largely absent for much of the 2010s. He returns here with a Christmas comedy in which he is the recipient of a curse given to him by an evil Santa elf

Director: Reginald Hudlin

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Elliss Ross, Jillian Bell, Madison Thomas, …

Category: Fantasy

16 December 202328 December 2025 by Roog