Every Eddie Murphy Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023 to add You People.
After a successful stand-up career in the 1970s and a wildly acclaimed run on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, Eddie Murphy launched his film career (while still on SNL) in 1982 and has been appearing on the big screen fairly steadily in the decades since, starring in over 40 titles. To date, Murphy's films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, but only occasionally has the material on screen matched Murphy's comedic talents—and, even when it has, reviews have sometimes been less positive than you might expect. In the gallery above, we rank all of his films to date (including his newest, Coming 2 America) from worst to best by Metascore, which reflects the consensus of professional critics for each film.
One of the least impressive entries in Disney's never-ending quest to turn every one of its theme park attractions into a film franchise, this 2003 family-friendly horror comedy from Rob Minkoff (The Lion King) features a lot of special effects and not all that much Murphy, who stars as the head of a family that spends a night in a haunted mansion. Despite the lackluster results, Disney hasn't given up on a Haunted Mansion film franchise, and two different remakes have been in various stages of pre-production over the past decade.
“Lifeless, unimaginative and almost determinedly uninspired, it's paint-by-numbers filmmaking at its dreariest.” —Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun
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