Murphy overwhelms everyone, even himself, with his gift of gab.
He wants the world to be a faster place…
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Eddie Murphy is an example of democratic man stretched to his limits.
As I say, many entertainers can do it that part of what makes them stars.
But Murphy has his specialty.
As they and we struggle to catch up.
Murphy opens his mouth as wide as a donkeys and emits that peculiar, heavy, bathtub-drain laugh.
The first time I heard it, I thought that laugh was pure malice.
But, of course, it isnt.
Eddie Murphy has a broad, generous streak.
He wants the world to be a faster place; he wants everyone to be a little hipper.
As always, Murphys mouth can take him anywhere.
Murphy has the Black mans intimate knowledge of what whites will give up to avoid a scene.
Hes a master of embarrassment he plugs right into it and makes it work for him.
With Murphy in town, the other cops scramble just to stay afloat.
Given colleagues like this, Foley reasons, a cophasto be a con artist.
But the movie has been packaged for easy laughs it doesnt work out the implications of what it says.
Brest isnt slick; he doesnt worry about pacing.
Brest and screenwriter Petrie know that America is a comedy of clashing social types.
Everyone Foley meets in Los Angeles is either bizarrely straight, or foreign, epicene, and insinuatingly friendly.
What is it pertaining?
inquires Serge of Foleys visit.
Many of Murphys encounters have the eerie magic of habitants of two planets getting to know one another.
Brest gives all the actors a fine moment and then another.
Will they loosen up enough to become good cops?
Murphy is borderline insufferable.
Hes younger and smarter and nicer than anyone in the movie.
Its the hustlers version of noblesse oblige.
