Boomerang (1992)

I can't believe that this gem of a movie is rated 5.4! This is about as complete of a love story as I've ever seen. There's the guy looking for perfection. You have the perfect woman, physically, who always gets the guy. You have the sweet girl who likes the guy. Of course at some point the guy gets the perfect woman only to find out she's not perfect. Then he gets the not-so-perfect sweet girl who he likes but doesn't love. So they break up and he realizes at the climax that she is everything he wants and that he does love her. Then at the end they end up together. If that's not a happily ever after, then what is? Mixed with excellent acting and comedy, this movie should at least be an 8.0. But I'm sure if you consider who the critics are, white males, you'll understand why a movie this good with an almost all black cast was given the shaft. Shame on these critics! Eddie Murphy can't win when the deck is stacked against his favor no matter what he does. Not to mention that it boasted a RECORD BREAKING, AWARD WINNING #1 song. Criticism truly is for those who can't do so they become critics.

For a long time I've always knew and remembered about this film because it features the hit song "End Of The Road" by Boyz II Men but never really watched the film itself. Well, at one night I decided to dive into this movie to see what this Rom-Com film is like. Oh...well after watching the entire film I can honestly tell you now that this movie is actually bad, it's as bad as Steve Irwin getting a stingray barb up the life force. It just baffles me that such a classic song would be featured in a train wreck of a film like this.The story is as boring as a soup opera and the film is severely lacking in the comedy side of things, the things that are supposed to be funny are just not. Sadly the funniest thing in the movie was this strange disturbing advert they show mid way through the film to promote the company. The worst character in the whole film is Strangé (Grace Jones), she dresses up like a freak and all she ever talked and shouted about was dirty sexual things and rudely calling out different people in an restaurant "gay" after Marcus (Eddie Murphy) declined her ridiculous offer of sex.Bottom-line, Boomerang has too much romance, is plain boring due to the lack of comedy and the story just wasn't very interesting.One last thing, why is the movie called Boomerang? There's no Australians, kangaroos and boomerangs in this. If the movie were a boomerang, I would throw it away into a bin.

Having only heard and seen clips of this movie for the last 20 years, I finally watched Boomerang on Netflix Streaming just now. Once again, Eddie Murphy got together with his writers from "Saturday Night Live"-Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield-and made another romantic comedy that turned out to be a success like their previous one in Coming to America. And once again, they got a fine supporting cast accompanying them like Lela Rochon (having previously appeared in Murphy's Harlem Nights), Robin Givens, Martin Lawrence, David Alan Grier, Chris Rock, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt and a newcomer named Halle Berry. Oh, and Tisha Campbell also appeared before her teaming with Lawrence in his upcomimg series "Martin". This time the director picked was Reginald Hudlin with his brother Warrington as co-producer after their success with their debut feature House Party. Like Coming to America, this was a nice change of pace for Murphy from his previous wise-ass characters but with both funny and touching scenes. Really, I had a good time watching this. So on that note, I highly recommend Boomerang. Oh, and the person who played a commercial editor looked familiar so I looked at the cast list and found out he was played by the one and only Melvin Van Peebles!

Eddie is at the top of his game in this one. Great Laughs and Great Women. Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eartha Kiit, and Grace Jones give tremendous performances. The storyline is very creative and there is a true lesson to be learned:L Plays do sometimes get played. I watched this movie in the theater when it first was released and I have watched it on video and now DVD every year since. This is a true classic with something for everyone. I especially like the style and class of the characters. They are all professionals who enjoy a good time. You can tell that they had fun making this move. Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock are hilarious in this movie along with Eddie and David Allen Greir.