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.
The second (and least terrible) of the three films the star made with director Brian Robbins, 2008's PG-rated Meet Dave finds Murphy playing an alien spaceship—yes, spaceship—that lands on Earth as well as that ship's captain, one of 100 tiny beings inside the interstellar vehicle (which has the appearance and size of a normal Eddie Murphy-shaped human but doesn't quite know how to "act" like a normal human). If that sounds like a movie you might see on Mystery Science Theater 3000, it may be because one of the screenwriters, Bill Corbett, played Crow T. Robot on that show.
“Though mildly amusing, Murphy's two characters in Meet Dave -- a wee captain and a humanoid spaceship -- neither tax nor stretch him.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
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