Eddie Murphy Movies-Best & Worst-with Inflated Box Office Results/Grosses-Including A Thousand Words.
81Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours..... his first and in my opinion best movie.
Hub Update: Eddie Murphy's newest movie A Thousand Words, is ranked is as his 32nd best movie or 2nd worst movie. The only Eddie Murphy movie ranked worse than A Thousand Words?...the classic movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash. 03/20/2012.
Before Eddie Murphy became one of the our most popular movie stars, he gained his first fame with his 5 year stint on Saturday Night Live(1980-84). During those years, Murphy performed numerous skits with his very popular characters Gumby, Mr. Robinson(spoof of Mr. Rogers) and a grown up Buckwheat. While still a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live he began his movie career. His first movie was the action comedy hit 48 Hours with Nick Nolte. He followed that movie with the even bigger hit Trading Places. In 1984 he appeared in his biggest hit of his career, Beverly Hills Cop....which is ranked #40 on the all-time movie list of blockbusters....using inflated box office grosses.
Over the next ten years Murphy would appear in numerous box office hits like: Coming To America, Beverly Hills Cop 2, The Golden Child and Another 48 Hours. After the box office disappointments of 1994's Beverly Hills Cop and 1995's Vampire in Brooklyn, Murphy started appearing in successful family-friendly movies like The Nutty Professor and Doctor Doolittle movies. In 2006 Eddie Murphy received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win for Dreamgirls. Since 2006, Murphy had a box office success with 2007's Norbit but two flops in Meet Dave and Imagine That.
Eddie Murphy's movies have grossed over 3.7 billion at the U.S. box office. Only Tom Hanks and his 3.8 billion can beat Murphy's box office number. Did you know the last R rated movie Eddie Murphy was 1999's Life? Eddie Murphy returns to theaters this November in the action comedy Tower Heist which also stars Ben Stiller and Matthew Broderick.
Eddie Murphy in his biggest box hit 1984's Beverly Hills Cop.....4th highest grossing R-rated film of all-time.
Eddie Murphy's Top Ten Box Office Hits. Ranked by 2011 inflated dollars.
Rank Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Tickets Sold (Millions)
|
|---|---|---|
#1 Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
| $555.70
| 69.90
|
#2 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
| $312.40
| 39.30
|
#3 Coming to America (1988)
| $248.00
| 31.20
|
#4 Doctor Dolittle (1998)
| $244.10
| 30.70
|
#5 The Nutty Professor (1996)
| $231.30
| 29.10
|
#6 Trading Places (1983)
| $228.20
| 28.70
|
#7 48 HRS. (1982)
| $213.10
| 26.80
|
#8 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps(2000)
| $182.10
| 22.90
|
#9 The Golden Child(1986)
| $170.90
| 21.50
|
#10 Dr. Doolittle 2(2001)
| $159.00
| 20.00
|
Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.....his 8th highest ranked movie according to critics and audience scores.
This table shows the The Top Ten Eddie Murphy movies based on critic consensus from Rotten Tomatoes and the public opinions from IMDB and Yahoo Movies.
Rank Movie Year
| Critics Audiences Score
| Co-Star
|
|---|---|---|
#1 48 Hours(1982)
| 82%
| Nick Nolte
|
#2 Trading Places(1983)
| 82%
| Dan Aykroyd
|
#3 Beverly Hills Cop(1984)
| 79%
| Judge Reinhold
|
#4 Eddie Murphy Raw(1987)
| 76%
| Directed by Robert Townsend
|
#5 Bowfinger(1999)
| 72%
| Steve Martin
|
#6 Dreamgirls(2006)
| 72%
| Jamie Foxx
|
#7 Tower Heist (2011) Latest Movie
| 69%
| Ben Stiller
|
#8 Coming to America(1988)
| 67%
| Arsenio Hall
|
#9 The Nutty Professor(1996)
| 61%
| James Coburn
|
#10 Life(1999)
| 56%
| Martin Lawrence
|
Eddie Murphy in 2006's Dreamgirls....his only Oscar nominated performance....ranked 4th according to Movie Score.
Eddie Murphy movies ranked by Movie Score. Movie Score is box office results + critical reception + award recognition. Perfect score would be 100.
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st
| Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
| $555.70
| 1
| 19
| 28
| 79%
| 72.76
|
2nd
| Trading Places (1983)
| $228.20
| 3
| 6
| 17
| 82%
| 70.76
|
3rd
| 48 HRS. (1982)
| $213.10
| 3
| 12
| 15
| 82%
| 67.90
|
4th
| Dreamgirls (2006)
| $124.80
| 3
| 4
| 7
| 72%
| 66.95
|
5th
| Coming to America (1988)
| $248.00
| 1
| 6
| 8
| 67%
| 66.70
|
6th
| The Nutty Professor (1996)
| $231.30
| 1
| 4
| 7
| 61%
| 65.45
|
7th
| Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
| $312.40
| 1
| 7
| 9
| 54%
| 62.26
|
8th
| Doctor Dolittle (1998)
| $244.10
| 1
| 4
| 6
| 48%
| 57.41
|
9th
| The Golden Child (1986)
| $170.90
| 1
| 8
| 9
| 41%
| 52.56
|
10th
| Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
| $102.60
| 1
| 4
| 5
| 76%
| 49.97
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
11th
| The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
| $182.10
| 1
| 3
| 6
| 35%
| 49.40
|
12th
| Bowfinger (1999)
| $104.10
| 2
| 4
| 6
| 72%
| 47.51
|
13th
| Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
| $159.00
| 2
| 2
| 7
| 44%
| 46.57
|
14th
| Another 48 HRS. (1990)
| $151.80
| 1
| 4
| 6
| 37%
| 45.83
|
15th
| Life (1999)
| $100.20
| 1
| 4
| 6
| 56%
| 44.18
|
16th
| Daddy Day Care (2003)
| $137.50
| 2
| 4
| 6
| 41%
| 42.79
|
17th
| Boomerang (1992)
| $134.40
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 44%
| 42.32
|
18th
| Tower Heist (2011)Latest Movie
| $76.80
| 2
| 2
| 5
| 69%
| 40.41
|
19th
| Harlem Nights (1989)
| $121.60
| 1
| 3
| 5
| 37%
| 40.39
|
20th
| Norbit (2007)
| $110.50
| 1
| 3
| 6
| 23%
| 34.39
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
21st
| The Haunted Mansion (2003)
| $100.20
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 31%
| 31.68
|
22nd
| The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
| $89.00
| 4
| 2
| 6
| 36%
| 31.02
|
23rd
| Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
| $82.70
| 3
| 2
| 4
| 30%
| 27.53
|
24th
| Metro (1997)
| $55.60
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 34%
| 25.47
|
25th
| Showtime (2002)
| $52.50
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 40%
| 25.23
|
26th
| I Spy (2002)
| $46.10
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 34%
| 22.36
|
27th
| Imagine That (2009)
| $17.50
| 6
| 0
| 2
| 46%
| 19.46
|
28th
| Best Defense (1984)
| $45.30
| 2
| 1
| 2
| 26%
| 19.04
|
29th
| Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
| $35.80
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 27%
| 18.35
|
30th
| Holy Man (1998)
| $20.70
| 5
| 1
| 2
| 30%
| 15.41
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
31st
| Meet Dave (2008)
| $12.70
| 7
| 0
| 0
| 34%
| 13.75
|
32nd
| A Thousand Words (2012) Still in theaters
| $11.98
| 6
| 0
| 2
| 24%
| 11.29
|
33rd
| Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
| $6.40
| 10
| 0
| 1
| 22%
| 8.90
|
Eddie Murphy provides the voice of Donkey in the Shrek movies.
Eddie Murphy has had great success providing his voice to animated movies. It started when he played Mushu a Chinese dragon in the 1998 movie Mulan. His most famous voice over is playing Donkey in the Shrek franchise. The four Shrek movies have grossed over 1.2 billion dollars in the U.S. alone.
For the above tables of Eddie Murphy movies, these animated movies are not included. For your viewing pleasure the five movies have a table all on their own.
Eddie Murphy's Voice Over Movies. You can see how far the Shrek franchise has slipped when you look at Critic/Audience Scores.
Rank Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Tickets Sold (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shrek (2001)
| $376.80
| 47.40
| 1
| 6
| 11
| 85%
| 73.96
|
Shrek 2 (2004)
| $565.20
| 71.10
| 1
| 5
| 12
| 82%
| 72.26
|
Mulan (1998)
| $204.30
| 25.70
| 2
| 4
| 6
| 79%
| 65.64
|
Shrek Forever After (2010)
| $238.50
| 30.00
| 1
| 5
| 9
| 63%
| 64.62
|
Shrek the Third (2007)
| $372.90
| 46.90
| 1
| 4
| 7
| 51%
| 58.84
|
Adventures of Pluto Nash grossed only 4 million in the U.S. with a critic/audience score of 22%...easily Eddie Murphy's worst movie.
The Worst of Eddie Murphy:
Let's talk about one of Eddie Murphy's least successful films. The Adventures of Pluto Nash was filmed in 2000 with a 100 million dollar budget. After sitting on the shelf for over two years it was finally released in 2002. It's worldwide gross was 7.1 million dollars. The film is one of the worst box office flops of all-time.
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Yep Murphy started with a bang....looking at his top Movie Score movies....of the first four movies he made....3 finished 1,2,3....with only Best Defense scoring low....and that was a Dudley Moore movie with a few scences with Murphy causing problems with a tank ......thanks for reading and commenting
I've watched Eddie over a 100 times in "Trading Places" on VHS...and he saved Saturday Night Live.Thanks for sharing Cogerson.;)
He was good in his earlier days, but he's gone off the boil i think. I'm waiting for James Cagney though.
Back in the eighties, my buddies and I were big Eddie Murphy fans. We went to see all his films. We rented "Beverly Hills Cop" a zillion times on VHS. His career has gone through a lot of ups-and-downs since then (He had a hard time living down "Pluto Nash", and "Norbit" was awful) but he's reinvented himself as a family-friendly star, which is an unusual turn of events, considering how edgy he was in his early years.
I think his best performance was in "Dream Girls" (where he showed he could sing much better than he did in that horrible album, 'My girl wants to party all the time'). I liked him best as Axel Foley in the "Beverly Hills Cop" films (Even though the last one was horribly unfunny). He's a very talented film star but I don't like his stand-up routine.
Thanks for the hub.
Rob
Coming To American, 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop were good movies. Have not seen too many of the other movies but keep these HUBS coming Cogerson. It must take time and effort to do all these HUBS. THANKS A LOT!
There isn't an Eddie Murphy movie I didn't like!! He even rocks as a donkey!!!! Great hub!!
BTW...I like your new picture?! :)
Hey mentalist acer....for me it was 48 Hours that we watched over and over.....not that we did not watch Trading Places numerous times....especially since I was madly in love with Jamie Lee Curtis back then
attempted humour...thanks for stopping by....I think he could rebound with Tower Heist with Ben Stiller this November.....as for James Cagney ....he has been done for a couple of weeks now....I used to keep an index on each hub...but hubpages would not let me publish a hub with index anymore....so here you go Mr. James Cagney
Hey Rob.....it is amazing to me that when I was a teenager ...Murphy was on the cutting edge....R-rated humor....and probably the biggest star for 8 or more years....I even remember his trailer for The Golden Child...where he was in a blizzard and yelling at the audience members for sitting in a warm theater....people went to the movies just to watch that trailer.....now my kids only think of him as a Disney Dad....amazing how times have changed....thanks for reading....I have made some progress on Myrna Loy...but still a ways away from a completed hub
Hey Bern1960.....so it sounds like you have not seen an Eddie Murphy movie since the 1980s....I wonder how many people are in the same boat as you.....if you throw out the Shrek movies he has not had a solid starring role hit that audiences liked since Nutty Professor in 1996. That is long time....as for time to do the hubs....the newer actors do not actually take very long....the older actors required lots of research.....thanks for the compliment
Thanks Sunshine....you can not argue with 3.7 billion at the box office....and his number for worldwide box office is almost at 7 billion......so lots of people love his movies.....thanks for the compliment on my photo and the hub...
Excellent! I love Eddie Murphy! Even his stand up comedy cracks me up!
Nice hub you have written. Most of his movies have been sequels. For a grand total of 13 movies that are part of a franchise, almost 40%. Now there is something for you to look, most sequels an actor has appeared. My favorite is Trading Places, have not really paid him much attention the last 20 years. Voted up!
Thank you RealHousewife....I am glad you like Eddie Murphy and the hub.
YankeesRule....thanks for the compliment....well you can only make sequels when the first one is very successful....so he has had 5 very successful movies....thanks for stopping by
Hey Cogerson great hub, as always. Eddie Murphy is great the original Beverly Hills Cop movie would be my all time favourite movie of his, I also loved Coming to America. Reading his movie list I can't believe how many Eddie Murphy movies that I've not seen.
Loved Eddie Murphy in 48hrs and Beverly Hills Cop, not so much the rest. Like Steve Martin he lost his edginess over time and became a family favourite.
Looking at your list Conanson, the last live-action film of his I saw was Showtime or I Spy back in 2002. I do like his Donkey in the Shrek films though. :)
Voted up and useful.
Hey Martyv25....thanks for the compliment.....I remember when Beverly Hills Cop came out on VHS....it was the first VHS priced to sell....here in the states it was 29.99 for a copy.....the video store I worked at ordered almost 2000 copies.....and we sold out in 4 days.....it was a crazy 4 day Beverly Hills Cop experience...I am sure once Murphy hit is dry spell, you like lots of adults stopped paying attention to Eddie Murphy movies
Hey Steve.....my 4 year old daughter has no idea who Eddie Murphy is....but when I attached the Shrek photo to this hub....she started pointing at Shrek and Donkey and began asking if we could watch the movie again.....so Murphy is still reaching the masses....they are just under 10 years of age....lol. I saw I Spy at the theater as well.....it was generally a pretty lousy movie. Al Pacino is next...I have found the information and scored all of his 36 movies...and Dog Day Afternoon is coming in #3 according to Movie Scores....thanks for reading.....Conanson....I like this name....lol
Very interesting hub. Although it shouldn't come to anyone's surprise that a lot of his older films would be ranked higher, as I think that's when Eddie was truly at his best. Anyways, thanks for writing this, as i'll be sure to rate this up!
Ready to see him in more dramas. No more fat suits. But some of his best work will always be on SNL.
Hey Steven. I agree his first five years were awesome...Saturday Night Live, 48 Hours, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop....what a start. I do not think anybody other than Tom Hanks could have kept that pace up. Thanks for reading the hub.
I agree trusouldj...no more fat suits. They most be addictive as he and Martin Lawerence can not seem to make a movie without putting one on. You would think that he would have wanted to build on the success of Dreamgirls....instead he made Norbit. He actually has a movie called A Thousand Words coming out soon....about a guy that is told he will die after he speaks his next thousand words ...sounds more like a drama than a comedy. Thanks for commenting
Everytime I see Eddie Murphy, I want to just slap him. It's odd. I thought George Carlin and Richard Pryor were hilarious. Who used more profanity than either of those guys? Yet, I find Eddie Murphy offensive. I can't explain it. I know, I'm weird. :)
This is still an excellent compilation of his work.
up and useful
Hey Fay....if I had to guess it could be his behind the scenes behavior.....he has some stuff in his closet that is not the screen persona he has.....where Carlin and Pryor pretty much made their personal demons part of their act.....much makes them less offensive.....kinda like Tiger Woods....if you think about how people feel about him now vs after his Thanksgiving day event with a golf club and car wreck....thanks for reading
I AGREE NOT ALL HIS MATERIAL IS FOR EVERYONE.BUT FOR THE MOST PART I THINK HE'S PRETTY GOOD.YOU DID A GOOD JOB ON THIS HUB.
I guess I might be a little slow for not realizing Eddie was the voice of Donkey. But now that I think about it it all makes sense! No wonder I love Donkey... Also love Eddie in Nutty Proffessor and Doc Doolittle. Great hub.
Thank you roshall. You have to give the man credit, he has been making movies for almost 30 years now. Yes he has had some downs to go with his ups.....but every actor has the same problem. Thanks for reading the hub.
Good to see you again emilybee. I do believe Donkey has been paying most of the bills in the Murphy family for the last 10 years.....because other than the Shrek movies the 2000s were not the best for Eddie......thanks for stopping by....and it is time for some more hubs from you...I just checked and it has almost been a month since your last hub.
Love this hub! It brought back a lot of great memories. The SNL bits still crack me up as well as the stand-up routines. Although I'm a fan of 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop, my guilty pleasure is the Nutty Professor. It's just the kind of "dumb" movie I can't get enough of.
He started off so strong...and I agree the SNL bits are still very funny...he made a good team with Joe Pespico...I wonder where he is and how to spell his name....I liked the first Nutty Professor as well...the second one is simply horrible...thanks for stopping by
I think the Shrek movies helped him out, money wise. For my generation I knew him as Professor Klump, for the next set of kids, they dont even know his name,he is simply the voice of DONKEY. Good HUB, hilarious characters. Thanks.
Hey BryRog57....it is possible Mr. Murphy could re-invent himself one more time.....you are 100% correct by 4 year old has no idea who Eddie Murphy is.....but show her a picture of donkey.....thanks for reading and commenting.
I really like Eddie Murphy. It is amazing to think of where he is now. Who knew someone who used that much profanity in earlier acts could be so kid friendly now? I guess everyone changes. Voted up!
Hey Jeannieinabottle....I remember when he used to joke about how Bill Cosby used to tell him that he used to much profanity.....back then he would......Cosby to shut the hell up.......and now he is Bill Cosby.....who would figure. Thanks for the comment.
But I loved Pluto Nash!!! Damn I must really be a bad movie fan! Oh well I liked it anyway.
Hey Multiman.....it is ok that you liked Pluto Nash....I am sure if more people watched it,more people would like it.....there was a movie in the late 70s that got classified as horrible movie...that movie was called Heaven's Gate and pretty much nobody ever show that movie either....thanks for reading and supporting Mr. Nash...
I LOVE NORBIT : ) HOPE TO FIND SOMETHING BETTER..GREAT JOB E.M.
Hey Anonymous....thanks for stopping by ...I am glad you like Norbit...it did very well at the box office.
hinton1966 Level 1 Commenter 12 months ago
It looks like the 1980 decade was very good to Eddie Murphy. Since then he has turned from a Richard Pryor clone to a Bill Cosby clone. Which if you ever saw Murphy's Delirious you would think is funny how life has changed him. Voted up.