Review of Bowfinger (1999) by Brandon W — 01 Aug 2016

Bowfinger is directed by Frank Oz, and it stars Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy in a comedy film about a filmmaker that has a script that he thinks is amazing, and he wanted to get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) to star in his movie, but the problem is that he declined his offer, and Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) promised his crew that Kit is in it.

So they try to film him in it without him knowing about it. When I saw that this was about to expire on Netflix, I figure I should watch it again for review reasons, and as a result of it, I had a great time with this.

The acting is great, and it's really nice to see Eddie Murphy be really funny as his Kit character be unaware about being in a movie that really is s comedic gold to be, while also playing a different character as a dork that seems to be very genuine which I haven't see him act this way.

The jokes hit bullseye for me, and plays a satire on filmmaking in terms of guerrilla style, and Scientology. Characters are memorable, and there was a thing that got to think of one of the situations that could've been solved easily, but it made me forgive it by using it as an advantage for some good jokes.

The writing by Steve Martin is well written, and it never gets to a situation that gets a bit mean-spirited. Bowfinger is a comedic classic that I can see why people think that it's one of the last films that they find Eddie Murphy funny in live-action, that is until he's funny in Tower Heist.