Fast-paced and energetic social satire fleshed out with lots of enjoyable silliness.
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04/02/08
Trading Places (1983)
91 %
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 31
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside... [More]
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Director: John Landis
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Reviews for Trading Places
The Saturday Night Live veterans Murphy and Ackroyd are the show-stealers here in this decent family comedy.
04/02/08
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This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.
04/02/08
Top Critic The rise of Valentine and the fall of Winthorpe are a source of great fun.
04/02/08
Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
04/02/08
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As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur.
06/24/06
Because Eddie doesn't have to carry the whole movie, he is free to make every word that comes out of his mouth infinitely appealing.
12/06/05
What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.
10/23/04
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