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Thats cos said Eddie Murphy fans have seen Beverly Hills Cop III

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Johnny Wishbone, the vitamins ("What did he do, sell 'em?"), "Axel Foley, Beverly Hills Building Inspector," too many more.

It's rather interesting, actually, that the original BEVERLY HILLS COP wasn't written as a comedy at the outset, but gradually evolved into one with Eddie Murphy's involvement in the project. Think of who they intended to play Foley: the thinking at the time of the script's genesis was Clint Eastwood, James Caan, etc. The first person signed to play Foley was Mickey Rourke. When they couldn't finalize the script within the time window that Rourke had, it went to Sylvester Stallone.

The first COP is sort of schizophrenic, in that regard. It IS very funny, yes. But unlike most comedies there are some alarmingly serious, jarringly violent moments in it (the Tandino execution, for example, or even the final confrontation with Victor Maitland). The assumption (or, rather, MY assumption, as a young boy eagerly awaiting COP II) was that BEVERLY HILLS COP II would be closer to an Eddie Murphy movie than to a Sylvester Stallone movie. Who knew that the reverse would actually be true? A fast, slick, hard-edged action thriller directed by Tony Scott would have seemed more fitting for either Stallone or Rourke than Eddie Murphy. If you didn't know better, you'd have thought that they were made in reverse order.

I don't even really think of BEVERLY HILLS COP II as a comedy. What comedy there is in the movie is pretty forced, and only some of it is actually funny. And yet, I still like this movie. A lot. Much of that credit I suppose goes to Tony Scott. This movie LOOKS so damned good (as do all of his early pictures), and is just so watchable, that I am willing to forgive it its cardinal sin: not being terribly funny. As a comedy, I think it's kind of a washout. As an action thriller, it's quite a bit more successful, in spite of the lame, contrived plot. I've always maintained that the real star of TOP GUN wasn't Tom Cruise; it was Tony Scott. If you want to see what TOP GUN would have looked like without Scott directing, give IRON EAGLE a spin sometime. Yikes. COP II is ten miles removed from a great movie (which the original very much is), but without Tony Scott's witchcraft with a camera, I can only imagine how badly it would have turned out.

Probably very much like BEVERLY HILLS COP III, I suspect...

(What the HELL was John Landis thinking? Landis! Brother gave us ANIMAL HOUSE, THE BLUES BROTHERS, TRADING PLACES, SPIES LIKE US and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and he gives us THAT BHC movie? What?!?)

Do you lack a sense of humor in general? Perhaps the plots weren't as spectacular or well- together as BHC 1, but so many parts of this movie was hysterical.

And if you think BHC 1 was funny, then tell me what is the HUGE difference between the two?

EX. In BHC 1, Axel bamboozles his way into a hotel room by saying he was a writer from Rolling Stone doing a piece on Michael Jackson (hysterical part).

In BHC 2, Axel bamboozles his way into "the Pointer Sisters" house as Billy Rosewood would say (hahaha) by saying he was a building inspector. Also funny.

That's just one of many of the stunts he pulls that are so similar in the first one and the second. The strip club, the tricks, the stunts-- when did they switch tracks??

I think BHC 1 was the better movie, but BHC 2 was the best laugh's I got from any of them. It was almost like watching two hours of Murphy's finest stand- up/improv. BHC 3 is the worst because they did what so many trilogy's do-- go to the well one too many times. All the same business and putting an amusement park and Uncle Dave in the mix was wizzzzzeak. Murphy still made the movie at least a bronze in my eyes though.

But to find no humor in BHC 2, that means you found no humor in BHC 1, Eddie Murphy Raw, Trading Places, 48 Hrs, Any Richard Pryor stand- up special or movie. And by that I feel real bad for ya. Missing out on a lot of laugh's.

Too many lines and scenes:

When he steals the house
The Vitamins
Johnny Wishbone
The scene in Detroit with Frankie and his nephew
Inspector Todd's Office
Playboy Mansion
Sidney Burnstein's office

This is easily the funniest out of the 3. The first movie is a much better movie with a much better script. However, Eddie has mastered Axel's character in this one. He is much more of a con man.