Posted on 03/13/2012 4:39:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Eddie Murphy's new film A Thousand Words has been slated in America with headlines speculating whether it is 'the worst film of all time'.
Comedian Murphy, who turned 50 last April, made his name with films such as Beverly Hills Cop and voiced Donkey in the hugely popular Shrek films but his latest movie, filmed in 2008, is attracting damning verdicts.
On Rotten Tomatoes - the American review aggregator website - A Thousand Words has earned a 0 per cent rating (the percentage of critics who have given the film a positive review), based on 41 reviews. Few films have previously sunk that low - examples being Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio and Heather Graham's sex flop Killing Me Softly.
Murphy, who has made fine films in the past such as Trading Places, plays a vain, fast-talking literary agent called Jack McCall, who learns to love his family again thanks to humbling lessons dished out by a magic tree.
Michael Phillips in the LA Times wrote: "In A Thousand Words the camera stays about two inches from Murphy's hyperactive face, and you start to see the strain and desperation in the actor's eyes. Without saying a word, those reaction shots — the film is a 100-minute reaction shot unto itself - says: I am in trouble here, yet I remain a big bad wolf of comedy. I will huff and puff and get a laugh. Somehow."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
How many “magic tree’s” can Hollywood make a movie about??
Talk about a tired subject. We know they are all leftist Gaia worshippers already.
Eddie needs to go back to doing standup.
Worse than Ishtar??
Well, if they wait 3+ years to release a movie, that’s a pretty good sign that it probably isn’t going to be very good.
Does this mean that “Ishtar” had at least one positive review??
That is very true.
He's done it before...
Racist liberal critics.
I have a hard time believing there are worse films than “Glen or Glenda” and “Plan 9 from Outer Space”.
Actually, nothing can top Eddie Murphy’s “Boomerang” as the worst movie of all time.
It was released a long 20 years ago, and I can still remember my disgust quite vividly - and that’s something.
The one where he doesn’t talk? Might be worth watching. Can Streisand do the same thing? Algore? Behar? The list is endless.
Gee, a family-friendly movie that promotes humility hated by modern critics. Who else is underwhelmed?
Will it last 1,000 minutes in the movie theaters?
Pluto Nash was a very bad movie and a wasted rental.
I actually saw Ishtar... but it was only because we had driven 40 miles to the base in Munich, and that’s what they were playing in the movie theater. It was dismal.
Norbit was actually hilarious. At least in my opinion. Pluto Nash was stupid. I remember Harlem nights as a pretty good one.
Murphy is better as part of an ensemble cast, rather than when he is the main star.
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