Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek 3… Dreamgirls quickly followed by Norbit… And IMDb now reports a Shrek 4 as the cherry on top.
They’re all so banal. So bourgeois. There’s no integrity in blockbusters. Eddie Murphy, how do you feel about it?
“Thirty years and I have close to 50 movies and it is like, `Why am I in the movies? I’ve done that part now.’
“I’ll go back to the stage and do stand-up.â€
Good plan. A return to his roots.
Just as soon as he finishes Beverly Hills Cop 4: Electric Boogaloo:
“The third one was horrible, so I didn’t want to do another one.â€
“It wasn’t ready to be done and they [the producers] wrote some sh-t down on paper and I said, ‘Is this your phone number?’ and they said, ‘This is how much we’re going to pay you.’
“I said, ‘Let’s go shoot it! I don’t care if the script ain’t right.’â€
Every Donkey has a price.
At least he’s honest?
I miss the days when Eddie Murphy was funny… back when I was like… 12.
Oh come on! Shrek was brilliant and Shrek 2 was very good… surely you liked Puss’N Boots, didn’t you? Just because they were ‘blockbusters’ is no reason to sneer at them.
Although Donkey got rather annoying at times.
I liked the Shrek movies, but not because of Donkey. At best, he was cute, and at worst, just plain annoying.
Well Mike Myers will need the Shrek money once the Love Guru bombs.
His career is like Chevey Chaase’s. Great talent early on and it went to his head. But c’mon, his stand up was funny as hell. Hey Norton!
Really, though, the more they make the more unfunny they become. They just quit trying or something.
llamasrule is right on that. Not only Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase, but whatever happened to Dan Ackroyd? Granted, he’s had some small dramatic roles, and isn’t disappointing in them, but there was a time when he was hilarious too.
Maybe people are just funnier before they leave SNL….still respect Murray and Akroyd, though.
I preferred him funny, too, but, hey, if he can’t be funny, at least he can make ridiculous amounts of money doing it, right?
After all — that only happens because there are idiots out there who think they should go to a movie — like some sort of wierd Pavlov’s dog thing — whenever Eddie makes a movie.
And I can’t say I find fault with it. Someone asks me to do something so horrible as to make a mediocre to bad movie — Horror of Horrors!! — for seven figures, Hey:
“WHERE DO I SIGN?!!!”