GAMES: GameSpot | GameFAQs | SportsGamer MUSIC: Last.fm | MP3.com MOVIES: Metacritic | Movietome TV: TV.com
Home | About Metacritic | About Metascores | What's New | Wireless Versions | Discussion Forums | Advertising Inquiries | Contact Us | RSS
Metacritic.com: We Deal With Criticism
     Help
> Switch to Advanced Search  
Film Video/DVD Music Games TV

DVD and Video

Upcoming Release Calendar
Awards & Bests By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

 

Recent Releases in DVD and Video

sort by name sort by score

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.



 

Printer-Friendly Version Email This Page Discuss In Our Forums

Boomerang
Paramount Pictures

Boomerang reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 45 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
N/A out of 10
based on 19 reviews
Read critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
based on 0 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie

MPAA RATING: R

Starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry, David Alan Grier, and Martin Lawrence

New York marketing exec Marcus Graham is a wolf in chic clothing, a ladies' man dedicated life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. But what goes around comes around. (Paramount Pictures)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Barry W. Blaustein
David Sheffield
Eddie Murphy (story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Reginald Hudlin  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 24, 2002 
Theatrical: July 1, 1992 
RUNNING TIME: 117 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

90
Washington Post Hal Hinson
Boomerang is the funniest, most sophisticated movie of Eddie Murphy's career; it's a sleek, dexterous satire, with a slew of rich comic performances that remind us of everything we loved about Murphy in the first place.
Read Full Review
80
Washington Post Joe Brown
The movie benefits from a stylish, high-gloss look, a hit-filled soundtrack and up-to-the-minute dialogue (there's even a Korean shop-owner joke) that feels winningly off the cuff.
Read Full Review
75
Baltimore Sun Stephen Hunter
The movie then becomes a story of salvation: how Murphy's Marcus, through the love of a better woman (Halle Berry) manages to rediscover both his decency and his humanity. And yet, pretty much, it stays funny. [01 Jul 1992]
75
Chicago Tribune Dave Kehr
Boomerang, a sleek, confident and very funny urban comedy that may not entirely overcome Murphy's more discomfiting tendencies, but at least manages to put them to good use. [01 Jul 1992]
75
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The real surprise of the movie is Eddie Murphy, who finds his character and stays with him.
Read Full Review
70
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The general idea is to exploit a certain amount of role reversal, and Reginald Hudlin, who directed "House Party," does a fairly good job of making this fun.
Read Full Review
67
Portland Oregonian Ted Mahar
It is thoughtful and well enough acted throughout. [03 Jul 1992]
63
Boston Globe Jay Carr
The result is a megabudget "House Party" -- amiable, colorful, filled with glamour and style. [01 Jul 1992]
63
TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
More interesting than entertaining and too long by far.
Read Full Review
60
Empire lloyd Bradley
This is cornily predictable stuff, but it raises itself on a number of counts, with Murphy's transformation from a self-assured cocksman to bewildered, lovesick drip being approached with greater gusto than might be expected.
Read Full Review
50
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The pace is a little too languid, and the vulgarity a little too frequent, for the movie to work as intended.
Read Full Review
50
The New York Times Janet Maslin
The funniest parts of this uneven, ostentatiously upscale comedy are those that find Mr. Murphy's Marcus adopting the behavior of a sexually insecure woman.
Read Full Review
50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Murphy seems committed to pushing his hostile vision, and that in itself is interesting. [01 Jul 1992]
50
USA Today Mike Clark
The movie, though, is more of the same: another current comedy with want-to-see elements that fails to deliver the goods. [01 Jul 1992]
40
Variety Lawrence Cohn
The film might have worked if the thoroughly selfish characters were striving after something.
Read Full Review
25
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
What Murphy's doing isn't acting; it's masturbation.
Read Full Review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Occasionally, Murphy cuts loose with an ad-libbed riff that's almost funny, but then it's back to the slim-fast plot and the stick-on crudities. [03 Jul 1992]
10
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A film that is more listless than funny and could surely use some of the energy that animated both Art Buchwald and Paramount Pictures in the lawsuit surrounding authorship of [Eddie Murphy]'s 1988 "Coming to America." [01 Jul 1992]
0
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
It's not even funny. Nor does it contain half the wit or charm as the old Doris Day sex comedies it so resembles.
Read Full Review

What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 0.0 (out of 10) based on 0 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Discuss this movie in our forums

Return to top of page
Home | FILM | DVD/VIDEO | MUSIC | GAMES | TV | Forums | About Metacritic metacritic.com

Popular on CBS sites: MLB | Spore | iPhone 3G | Paris Hilton | Antivirus Software | GPS | Recipes | Shwayze | NFL

About CBS Interactive | Jobs | Advertise

© 2008 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use