Wednesday, November 14, 2018

169: "The Magic Death Tree" - A Thousand Words (2012)

We've come to the end of The Fall Of Eddie Murphy and we are talking about his 2012 comedy A Thousand Words.  Murphy plays a motormouth literary agent who gets cursed by a magic death tree, for some reason.  A leaf falls off for every word he says and when the last leaf drops he will die.  You know, like a tree dies when all the leaves fall off.  Wait, that isn't true.  Meh, who cares?  All of this magic science is just the best guess of a spiritual guru.  He doesn't even know what's going on and it seems to be his magic death tree.  This movie has a lot of problems, the biggest of which involves a talking Austin Powers doll.  Enjoy!

Thursday, November 8, 2018

168: "A Big Black Spaceship Dick" - Meet Dave (2008)

Question: If you were building a spaceship, would you make it look like you?  Would you make it anatomically correct?  Would you put a pencil sharpener in the nose?  Would you make it so it makes poopy faces when things come out the butthole?  All these questions are not answered in Meet Dave but it's still a pretty funny movie.  Eddie Murphy stars as the captain of an Eddie Murphy spaceship.  He and his crew are on Earth to steal the salt from our oceans but along the way they start to respect our way of life, which is reasonable as they are so close to humans to begin with.  We got one more movie after this for our Fall Of Murphy.  Enjoy!

Thursday, November 1, 2018

167: "Bananas Exist In This Universe" - Showtime (2002)

We're continuing our Eddie Murphy binge with 2002's Showtime.  While not a good movie, it probably doesn't deserve the scorn it received.  Coming out the same year as The Adventures Of Pluto Nash and I Spy, two other Murphy bombs, probably didn't help it.  Murphy and De Niro play cops who get hired to star in a reality show that apparently has a tight post-production schedule as they are watching it almost instantly after filming it.  There's a lot that doesn't add up here and we get into all of it and also inadvertently prove O.J.'s guilt.  Enjoy!