Trading Places

Pros: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Cons: A bit predictable and outlandish

Trading Places (1983) “The best way to hurt rich people is to turn them into poor people.” Billy Ray Valentine Trading Places has been recently released on a bargain DVD from Paramount. The movie shows an experiment by two ...

Pros: Entertaining movie with good cast.
Cons: Predictable in spots.

Over the years, many cast members of Saturday Night Live< i> have gone on to have successful movie careers. Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd both started out on the show. They worked together on Trading Places< b>< i>, a comedy from 1983. ...

Pros: Great cast, very funny, works like a charm
Cons: Can't think of any.

In my opinion Trading Places is one of the best comedies of all time. It captured the talented comedic abilities of both Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd in their primes. Eddie Murphy is especially funny in this film using such classless lines as “When ...

Pros: excellent performances from the entire cast, extremely funny, not all that dated
Cons: the situations get more and more unbelievable as the film moves along

Before he became the late 90s watered down family movie man (although I do find the Klumps to be hilarious if I'm in the right mood), Eddie Murphy was one funny mofo. He was talented, edgy, and he made good choices with respect to what roles he ...

Pros: Murphy and Aykroyd in their best form, good philosophy behind the plot
Cons: some unnecessary adult humor

People think of Animal House when they hear the name of director John Landis, but his most polished effort was 1983's Trading Places. Eddie Murphy was reveling in the middle of his prime (after 48 Hours and before Beverly Hills ...

Pros: Great movie. Great cast. Very funny.
Cons: none really

Trading Places is a movie that I watched a lot when I was a little girl. I really enjoyed it every time. I just saw it again tonight on an NBC special. They run Eddie Murphy movie at least for the whole week-end. Tomorrow's Coming to...

Pros: frequently very funny, good script, story, and cast
Cons: gorilla love, exaggerated personality changes

After making his film debut in the excellent 48 HRS., Eddie Murphy followed up with Trading Places, one of director John Landis' best comedies. (Other memorable Landis films also starred "Saturday Night Live" alumni, The Blues...

Pros: Great acting, captivating concept, wonderful climax.
Cons: Some half-witted humor along the way robs it of greatness.

Trading Places (1983) is a wild, rollicking, and thoroughly enjoyable comedy with a serious subtext about wealth and poverty in America today. Wonderful satire and an abundance of one-liners and memorable scenes, plus outstanding performances by...

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The nature-versus-nurture debate has been going on for a long time. Are we a product of our environment or of our genetic environment? This is a very funny movie starring Dan Aykroyd as a broker and Eddie Murphy as a criminal. Two brothers, one...

Pros: Good humor!
Cons: None really

I loved this movie. Here with have an educated, Harvard, uppity snob, Akroyd and a low-life inner city hoodlum, Murphy. It starts out with Murphy getting arrested, since he "supposedly" was trying to rob the payroll.

The bosses, Duke and...

Pros: good story line
Cons: none

Imagine being a wealthy buisinessman, and suddenly being framed for theft, and thrown in jail. Imagine that, also, you somehow got framed for drug dealing. Not a fun situation to be in, right? Now, imagine that your bosses, your friends, and even...

Pros: Eddie Murphy, Dan Ackroyd
Cons: I'll get back to you

Eddie Murphy plunged into the movie genre with this (or was it 48 hours first). He plays what else? A street wise con man who is the figure of a bet placed by two powerful Wall Street giants.

Dan Ackroyd plays the typical white rich guy with...

Pros: It's funny at times
Cons: Way too silly

Silly. Just plain silly. Unbelievably silly. I imagine that’s what the reviewers said when this one came out in 1983. What did I say in 1983? "Mommy, look at the teddy bear." I was five years old. Give me a break. But now I’m at the scholarly...

Pros: Plot matters, & no bathroom jokes
Cons: None

MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY MOVIE

Always at this time of the year, I have to watch one movie to zip me right into the Christmas way. No, it’s that Jimmy Stewart/Frank Capra crap, or anything with animated actors or some made-for-TV drivel like “A...

Pros: Dan Aykroyd Shines + Eddie Murphy is very Funny
Cons: Train scenes slow down film a little

I saw this movie because at the time Eddie Murphy was huge, and if you were not listening to his concert tapes, watching tapes of him from SNL you were going to his movies. As good as he is in this movie the reason I watch this film now is because of the...