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Summary: Really good film about dating and the work place
Review: "Boomerang" was one of Eddie Murphy's best and most underated films. Robin Givens stars in the film as a sexy business woman that Eddie Murphy woos but she get's the last laugh. Then comes along sweet little Halle Berry before she was a mega star. This is a really good flm with a lot of today's top talent. Look for David Allen Grier, and Chris Rock and Eartha Kitt gives a dazzling sexy performance for a senior citzen!
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Summary: Great Murphy Film
Review: A great movie set in the greatest city in the world. It's great that Hollywood showing black can run their own in the corporate world.
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Summary: Divas galore
Review: Although Eddie Murphy is the star of "Boomerang", it's the ladies in the film who steal the show. Eddie plays Marcus, a smooth cosmetic company ad exec who is used to loving and leaving the ladies he dates. But when he meets Jaqueline (Robin Givens), who treats him as disposably as he usually treats women, the tables are turned. Givens is great playing a ballbusting ice queen, and Halle Berry is sweet and endearing as the platonic friend who Eddie eventually falls for. Grace Jones is absolutely hysterical as a crazed celebrity hired to promote a new perfume, and Eartha Kitt is also funny as the aging cosmetic company's founder. Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, and David Alan Grier all also have supporting roles, but they all play second fiddle to the army of divas in this film.
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Summary: Best not to get hooked on Boomerang's many problems
Review: Boomerang (like smoking, drinking, and one hundred and one other vices) is one of life's sinful pleasures. On the sinful side, and there are many, besides part-time ad exec/full-time hustler Marcus Graham's womanizing (played superbly by Eddie Murphy)Boomerang offers little in the way of a story. And the one the producers try to hand us is contrived beyond belief. Graham ends up meeting his match and is beaten at his own game by Robin Givens. Had Boomerang developed Eddie Murphy and Robin Givens's symbiotic relationship into real love, Boomerang would have had potential. Instead, Boomerang veers further off into making Murphy settle down (almost overnight) with the-girl-next-door type in Halle Berry (in a relationship that is solidified lock, stock, and barrel in the last fifteen minutes of the movie!). And the cursing and lewdness meter in Boomerang is off the raunchiness scale. But for all its problems, this movie is still a pleasure to watch. And for that we have Eddie Murphy to thank. He plays Marcus Graham with the uttmost suave and dapper, and the producers surround him with a truly lovely bevy of black actresses (the likes of which Hollywood rarely seems to display in one setting). But like many sinful (cinematic) pleasures, it is best not to get hooked on Boomerang. If you do, you'll fall for even less stylish schmuck. Not to mention the fact you'll never develop a taste for the finer Hollywood comedies (some of which star Eddie Murphy!).
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Summary: Almost a classic, but still a good movie
Review: Boomerang is a good film. Eddie Murphy is at the top of his game here, and the Hudlin Brothers fresh off "House Party" do a good job writing and producing their second film. Unfortunately, what make the movie fall flat are the lackluster performances of the supporting cast. Even though it's not as good as the Classic Beverly Hills Cop or Coming To America, it's still one of my favorite movies.
Eddie Murphy is great as Marcus the womanizing executive. He's a dog who is soon to have his day when he runs afoul of Robin Givens. Sadly, this is where the story starts to fall apart. Murphy and Givens just don't have the onscreen chemistry to make this romantic comedy work. That's not Robin Givens fault at all. One of biggest flaws of Boomerang is the screenplay and its poorly written female characters. None of the actresses had anything to work with here, since most of the female characters were extremely underdeveloped. With a stronger script I think Robin Givens would have been able to hold her own with Murphy. Halle Berry is sweet here as the office good girl who helps Marcus change his misogynistic ways. David Alan Grier is the "Nice Guy" and Marin Lawrence is hilarious stealing every scene he's in. It's a shame the story gets lost in all the stargazing, because it truly is a great premise.
That's the other weak spot Boomerang has: the Casting. There are just too many stars here and that prevents the viewer from seeing the characters in the story. For all you stargazers, there are appearances by Lela Rochon, Tisha Campbell, John Witherspoon, Geoffrey Holder, (7up man for you 80's kids) Grace Jones, Chris Rock, and Ertha Kitt. And that's the main problem here with Boomerang: No one blends seamlessly into the background of the film and becomes characters the way the supporting actors did in Coming To America. Worse, because there is no synergy among the actors onscreen most of the performances of the supporting cast are flat and uninspired. No one shares any chemistry with Eddie Murphy or each other onscreen. Everybody seems to be just doing "Their Thing." I remember watching this film in the theatres back in 1992 and most of the audience was pointing their fingers at the screen calling out actor names. That really ruined the movie for me back then.
I think Boomerang had the potential to be a true classic. With a little tweaking to the screenplay and some unknowns cast in some of the smaller supporting roles this film could have actualized the potential of the wonderful premise. With it's flaws, it's still a wonderful movie that shows what a group of talented African-American filmmakers, producers and actors can do if given an opportunity to make a movie.
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Summary: A Brilliant Film with An Exceptional Cast!
Review: Boomerang is definitely my all time favorite film and without a doubt my most often seen. My closest friend and I are always quoting scenes from this film. I live for Boomerang.The story is abundantly compelling and is truly Eddie Murphy's greatest performance to date. Robin Givens was born to play the role of executrix Jacqueline Broyer, Marcus Graham's (Murphy) sassy and highly sophisticated boss. The overall theme: How a player gets played. Supportingly, Grace Jones as Strange was phenominal as she, without effort dominates every scene that she's in. The boardroom and restaurant scenes are two of the most unforgettable scenes in cinema history. Other characters to note: Halle Berry as Angela Lewis (who writes Marcus a reality check), Chris Rock as Bony-T, Eartha Kitt as Lady Eloise, Martin Lawrence and David Allen Grier as Marcus's homeboys, Geoffrey Holder as "Nasty Nelson" and Lela Rochon as one of Marcus's "dates" (with bad toes). For those of you who have NOT seen this movie, I highly suggest that you do so NOW. It will keep you laughing and Grace Jones will single handedly keep your mouth open in shock. This is a movie that belongs in anyone's library who's a lover of black cinema.
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Summary: Black people at their best!
Review: Boomerang is my favorite black comedy. I like that it shows us in a positive light-- successful, goal-oriented, articulate. The on-film chemistry between the characters is awesome. Whenever I watch it, I forget that I'm watching a fiction movie because it feels like I'm getting a glimpse of a real-life story about friends and colleagues. I don't care what anyone says or what you don't see in her TV bios-- Boomerang put Halle Berry on the map! (I cut my hair short after I saw it.) The Star Trek kiss is THE BEST movie kiss of all times and the scene where Marcus gets "told" makes me cheer with excitement every time I see it! I have always wished for a Boomerang II. Buy the DVD now! It's a great investment.
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Summary: This movie is very funny and very true to life.
Review: Boomerang is one of my favorite movies of all time. I have seen it at least 10 times and never get tired of watching it. I saw it last weekend and laughed like it was my first time ever seeing it. The entire Thanksgiving scene is a classic. I am in tears everytime I watch it. It is absolutely hilarious!!!
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Summary: Just Doesn't Make the Grade
Review: Boring comedy with so much profanity that it gets boring rather quickly. Murphy plays an womanzing exec who gets a taste of his own medicene when he's being played by the woman. Eddie Murphy tries but goes nowhere with this picture and his carrer has suffered for it. He was more his usal self in The Disqusihed Gentelman.
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Summary: Good Sdtrk...Alright Movie
Review: Don't get me wrong this is a very funny movie. I just expected more from Eddie on this one. I seen it so many times and still laugh at it like I just saw it for the first time. I love this movie. And the soundtrack was flawless. It is the first time that most people even heard of Toni Braxton if people can remember that. I loved it.....
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