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.
Murphy's highest-grossing film to date is this 2004 sequel to the 2001 animated hit Shrek. (In fact, Murphy's four highest-grossing films are all in the Shrek series.) Reviews weren't quite as stellar as they were for the first film, but critics still found plenty to like in the sequel, which finds a new character (Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas) joining up with Mike Myers' Shrek and Murphy's Donkey.
“The real humor comes, once again from Murphy, whose Donkey is so genuinely funny and clever that he very nearly steals the film. Except that it's stolen by Banderas as a rogue Puss In Boots.” —Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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