Bowfinger Reviews

This bang-on-target satire of low-budget Hollywood film-making contains Steve Martin's best comic performance since Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Martin plays an ambitious but financially challenged director who's unable to sign up A-list action star Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) for his new sci-fi project. So he follows the actor around, setting up various silly scenarios and filming Kit's shocked reactions to insert into his movie that features a lookalike (also played by Murphy). Martin — who also wrote the hilarious screenplay — and Murphy are immensely engaging, and there's sparkling support from Heather Graham as a talentless actress who's quite prepared to sleep her way to the top. While The Player was a snarling, sharp-toothed beast, director Frank Oz's fun send-up of Tinseltown is a cute and cuddly companion piece.

Martin reminds us why he was once considered the funniest white man in America with this silly, savvy satire on... read more on Time Out

Mildly amusing comedy of Hollywood wheeling and dealing, with a few good jokes but rather more poor ones.

This bang-on-target satire of low-budget Hollywood film-making contains Steve Martin's best comic performance since Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Martin plays an ambitious but financially challenged director who's unable to sign up A-list action star Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) for his new sci-fi project. So he follows the actor around, setting up various silly scenarios and filming Kit's shocked reactions to insert into his movie that features a lookalike (also played by Murphy). Martin — who also wrote the hilarious screenplay — and Murphy are immensely engaging, and there's sparkling support from Heather Graham as a talentless actress who's quite prepared to sleep her way to the top. While The Player was a snarling, sharp-toothed beast, director Frank Oz's fun send-up of Tinseltown is a cute and cuddly companion piece.

Martin reminds us why he was once considered the funniest white man in America with this silly, savvy satire on... read more on Time Out

Mildly amusing comedy of Hollywood wheeling and dealing, with a few good jokes but rather more poor ones.

"...Inspired funny business that allows Martin to hilariously torpedo Hollywood's corrupt heart..."

"...So smart and biting that we relish it....[Murphy] gives the performance of his life..."

"...Real accuracy and sting come in Robert Downey Jr's brilliant cameo..."