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The best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths.
This is enjoyable but thin, which is no doubt what was intended.
Martin the writer plants some wicked barbs in Hollywood's rear end about creative financing of movies and hoarding of profits, the art of the deal, hipper-than-thou attitudes and exploitation.
This is his first screenplay since L.A. Story, yet you get the sense that Martin has lost some of the artistic aspiration he once brought to the movie business. This effort feels like it's just business.
Bowfinger never hits a note of high hilarity.
It assures Murphy's comeback as one of our most brilliant comic talents.
Entertaining, great actors but not a home run.
Hugely funny film that mixes knowing satire with winning stupidity, and has Martin and Murphy in form they have rarely managed in recent years.
Mr. Murphy chews the scenery every chance he gets and it recalls what made him such a star in the first place.
There is a solid little collection of extras on the disc.
Murphy is wonderful ... The plot is mechanical, clunky and boring.
Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.
Just watch two of the still funniest guys in the country do what they do best, without a bad script to get in the way.
You'll laugh 'til you stop!
This all has the potential to become a sidesplitting caper. ... Unfortunately, only a few of the manic scenes work.
[An] entertaining little comedy that should be forgiven for not living to its potential.
It's lively and frequently funny -- but why does it leave such a sour aftertaste?
Lest the movie get too saccharine (and it never does), Eddie Murphy is on hand to juice things up.
The movie reaches giddy, cartoonish heights, even while it carefully dodges any chance to move beyond skin-deep.
A wicked satire of the absurdity of the Los Angeles lifestyle.
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