It's a safe bet that every single review of "Boomerang," including this one, will use the word "vulgar" to describe what Ms. The film's omissions are less egregious than the excesses devised for some of its minor characters, notably Grace Jones as the sort of celebrity who warrants having her name attached to a brand of perfume. One character's joking remark in another language - "That's Korean for 'I'm sorry I shot you but I thought you were robbing my store' " - is virtually the film's only other nod to the world beyond its cloistered brand of escapism. The scene winds up incomplete and vaguely hostile, which gives it no place in a film that otherwise pays no attention to social reality. Murphy, the screenplay merely has him scare the man and leave the store.
But instead of setting up some bon mot for Mr. In a clothing store, an encounter that Marcus and his two best friends have with a white salesman appears headed for an incisive putdown, especially after this salesman insults these potential customers by mistaking them for thieves. Murphy sounds like he may be ad-libbing, the dialogue usually sounds stilted, and at times it has some strange lapses. Murphy does best.Įxcept in those welcome moments when Mr. Fast-talking is still what the newly smooth, fashionable and love-struck Mr. Murphy were attempting this, but he manages to make the character's smugness at least halfway funny, especially when it gives him an opportunity to fast-talk his way out of trouble. Hooting would be in order if anyone other than Mr. Warmly greeted by every single woman in his high-gloss headquarters, Marcus smirks his way through a day job as a cosmetics marketing executive and seduces a long list of female conquests by night. Murphy's Marcus appears in the film's opening scenes. Picture Elvis with an earring and a briefcase, living in a world whose racial stereotypes have been deliberately reversed, and you have some notion of how Mr. Though all the principals in "Boomerang" are black, with only a few white extras used occasionally for comic relief, the film's ideas about business and prosperity remain weirdly dated even as its sexual attitudes strive for something new. The star may wear an earring and sound savvy, but he inhabits an improbably glamorous corporate universe that comes straight out of the Rock Hudson-Doris Day 50's. Murphy also locates "Boomerang" in a strangely retrograde Fantasyland. The presence of the dapper, dressed-for-success Mr. Murphy happens to be playing this role, so Marcus becomes a lot more likable than he deserves to be. There's a short name for a man like this, and it's not Eddie Murphy. Marcus Graham, the main character in "Boomerang," is a suave, lady-killing executive who can send flowers to seven different girlfriends, each with a note saying, "Thinking only of you." Marcus is so picky about women that he secretly inspects their feet for imperfections, and is appalled if their toenail polish happens to be chipped.
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