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.
While critics gave Murphy's original Nutty Professor remake decent marks, this Peter Segal-directed 2000 sequel leans more heavily into the extended family of Murphy's Professor Sherman Klump character, to lesser results. The change in focus doesn't equal less Murphy, however; he again plays seven different roles, including all of the members of the Klump family, which means that many scenes find Murphy playing against himself. (He does have a love interest as well, played by pop star Janet Jackson in her first film role since 1993's Poetic Justice.)
“The star's over-the-top energy isn't enough to make this hopelessly vulgar, numbingly repetitious farce worth watching.” —David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor
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