Bowfinger (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: very funny, smart, good extras
Disadvantages: no DTS soundtrack on region 2

...performers together. That film was Bowfinger and while it was a modest hit it should have done better because it's a lot smarter than the likes of American Pie. Steve Martin plays Bobby Bowfinger, a film director who's on the Z-list of Hollywood. he has a few hangers on who want to get into movies, one day he reads a script from one of his hangers and really likes it. Now he has to get it made and after trying to get some big time producers interested ... Read review

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...the shot they need. When Bowfinger stumbles across a Kit double (Murphy again) who will do anything the director asks including fetch the coffee, he starts to think all his birthdays have come at once. Meanwhile, the neurotic Ramsey, never that stable to begin with, begins to lose it altogether as he becomes convinced that sex-crazed pod people are stalking him. It's a simple plot and, while the script throws a few barbs at Hollywood, it's played ... Read review

Advantages: Steve Martin & Eddie Murphy
Disadvantages: Steve Martin & Eddie Murphy

I finally got round to watching this film on DVD. As most other people, I had high expectations of the film. Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy have both released comedy classics in the past, so this should have been brilliant. Not so I'm afraid. Steve Martin plays a director trying to film a movie even through the main star doesn't know he's in it. They manage this by getting the other members of the cast to walk up to Eddie Murphys character and ... Read review

Advantages: lots of laughs
Disadvantages: none if u enjoy a comedy

I didnt know what to expect from this film to be honest. Not another film with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy! But, I was pleasantly surprised. Mr Martin's character isn't the best in the world, but he manages to make something of it. Eddie Murphy on the other hand, who plays not one, but two characters, pulls off superb performances as a film star, and the film stars brother. His manic comedy is in full effect as the big Hollywood film star, ... Read review

Advantages: great actors, great script, hilariously funny
Disadvantages: none

...basic plot is that Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is a failed Hollywood director until he finds a script that is to rescue his career. The only problem being he has no stars to appear in the movie and no money to pay any stars. This is where Eddie Murphy comes in. Murphy plays 2 parts in the film, a big Hollywood star called Kit and also he plays Kit's geeky brother. Bowfinger gets around the problem of not having a star in his movie by filming Kit ... Read review

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Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy star in this fast paced comedy. It tells the story of struggling wannabe Hollywood player who want to get a last chance at directing a hit Hollywood film before he turns 50 and is officially put on the scrap heap. He develops quite an ingenious method of getting the hottest Hollywood actor to take the leading rule in his ridiculous film. He decided to follow him around filming and developing the script round what he does. ... Read review

Advantages: funny, Heather Graham
Disadvantages: takes a while to get going

...Hollywood. Steve Martin plays Bobby Bowfinger a down on his luck producer who may have possibly had one big film .... year ago .... in Taiwan!!! He is convinced that he has the greatest script on earth - titled Chubby Rain - about aliens invading. All he needs is a star ... and some money ... and a distributer ... and - well you get the idea. Eddie Murphy is a big time star (typecasting there!!). He is also paranoid and delusional. Currently enrolled ... Read review

Advantages: Martin and Murphy at their best, great script. Fantastic special effects and martial arts sequence.
Disadvantages: None to think of.

Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) is a movie director fast approaching fifty and never having made it in Hollywood. Together with with a group of wannabe's (including a wannabe starlet played by Heather Graham who is prepared to sleep her way to the top.) and Mexican immigrants, he sets out to make a movie with Hollywoods biggest action star, Kit Ramsey (Murphy). There's only one catch, Kit doesn't know he's in it. He becomes increasingly paranoid, convinced ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny
Disadvantages: None

...nor acknowledges that losers exist. Bowfinger (Martin) is a failed film producer who decides to hire Eddie Murphy for his latest film. Except he can't afford him. So he and his dodgy collection of Mexican film makers and wannabee actors film Murphy without his knowledge. Luckily Murphy is a member of a weird wacko religion called Mindhead which is astonishingly similar to Scientology in that they believe in aliens and are deeply paranoid. Murphy ... Read review

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: None

Laugh out loud at one of the funniest films ever made. With the likes of Eddie Merphy you know this is going to be cracking and it really is. Most films that are amusing don't make you laugh out loud this one does at the cinema it was difficult to here what they were saying amongest histerical people, laugh at literally the funniest thing for ever. If you like to laugh you won't be able to help loving this true modern classic that is bowfinger. ... Read review

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: sometimes too embarrasing

This is the funniest most embarassing film in a long time, it just makes you wanna die. it stars Steve Martin who plays Bobby Bowfinger, he is bascially a loser who cant release a good film for his life. Someone finally comes up with a decent script this is where the talented Eddie Murphy comes into it. i couldnt stop laughing it was so ludicros, the acting was supurb, and best of all i didnt get bored once. its a deffinate must c if u havent already, ... Read review

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The double bill of Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy seems like it should produce superior results than this, but once the heightened expectations are disposed of, this is actually quite a funny film. Martin plays a desperate movie producer-director that'll do anything to get a movie made. He's devious and conniving, and the extremes to which he'll resort to make things happen comprise a good chunk of the movie's humor. Another hefty chunk are the dual ... Read review