Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy (1998) (V)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Andy Breckman
Dave Wilson

Writers:

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Before he was The Nutty Professor, before he was Dr. Dolittle, and even before he was the Beverly Hills Cop...

Plot Keywords:

African American | Spoof | Gang | Clip Show | Racial Relations

Cast

Eddie Murphy

...

Himself / Various Characters (archive footage)

Runtime:

USA:77 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Quotes:

Little Richard Simmons: [Little Richard Simmons' 'Sweatin' to the Oldies']
[to the tune of "I'm Ready"]
Little Richard Simmons: Ready, set, go cat go, I know a girl whose butt hang low. She flabby, flabby, flabby flabby! She flabby, flabby, flabby, Flabby! She flabby, step on your foot, she'll mash your toe!
[to the tune of 'Good Golly, Miss Molly]
Little Richard Simmons: Good golly, Miss Molly; look like a hog! Good Golly, Miss Molly, look like a hog! Better start runnin' cause you waited to late to jog!
[to the tune of 'Tutti Fruitti']
Little Richard Simmons: A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!Tutti-frutti, all rooti; tutti-frutti, all rooti, Tutti-frutti, all rooti, tooti-fruit all rooti; a wop lop a boo bop a wop bam boom!Know a gal name Daisy, the girl is fat and lazy; wooooo! know a gal named Daisy, the girl is fat and lazy! She got fat to the east, fat to the west, the girl got long and floppy breasts! tutti-frutti all rooti, tuttoe frutti all rooti, wooooo, tutti frutti all rooti, tootie all rooti, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom!

Movie Connections:

Edited from "Saturday Night Live: Olivia Newton-John (#7.20)" (1982)

Not very good

I'm a fan of Eddie Murphy's work on both "SNL" and in movies (up until the late '80s, anyway). I expected a lot from this "best of" collection but it's simply not very good. There are a few good gags - the "white man disguise," James Brown's hottub, The Little Rascals bit - but overall it has more misses than hits. I'm not sure why they thought putting the Gumby skit in here was a good idea.

I guess the biggest problem is that they were looking for "Eddie Murphy skits" whereas some of his better ones were those in which he interacted with others and shared the screen. Most of the ones included here are focused just on him, and to be honest a vast majority of them simply aren't very good.

Instead, I recommend "The Best of Will Ferrell," which is to date the best "best of" I've seen.

"Best of Eddie Murphy" needs a bit of work done.