Throwback Thursday: Early Eddie Murphy

You can always count on Siskel and Ebert clips to remind you of film culture at a given time. Here Gene and Roger profile the early work of Eddie Murphy, on the occasion of the home video release of 1986's The Golden Child. Widely panned at the time (except by Ebert), it is a bit of an overblown fantasy/adventure hybrid to be sure. But it comes across as Citizen Kane compared to 2002's Adventures Of Pluto Nash and 2004's Norbit, the latter of which would likely cost Murphy an Academy Award for his outstanding work playing James Early in Dreamgirls the same year.





Kind of like Big Trouble in Little China, with a bigger budget...


In case you missed it (and good for you!)…behold The Adventures Of Pluto Nash:





I very distinctly remember being with my buddy Ron at the Edmonton premiere at Westmount Mall Famous Players. We literally were both shocked that a studio could get away with something this awful. All we could do was laugh after a while. Hey, it was free...


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