Trading Places

By: The Dude

Director: John Landis
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Belushi, Dom Ameche, Ralph Bellamy
Rating: 3 out of 5

With the amount of Eddie Murphy movies being released on DVD this month, you know the man has gotta be cashed up, yeah. Dreamgirls, Norbit, Coming to America, and then this here classic, Trading Places.

Like the aformentioned immigration doco, I’m ain’t going to bore anyone with a rant about how good this 1983 movie is. We already know that. Any movie that concerns itself with Jamie Leigh Curtis at her peak(s) is a classic in anyone’s book.

So let check out the features that supposedly make this a Money Edition. There’s a handful of docos, the best of which is the Insider Trading featurette covering the making of this piece of cinema. As with Coming to America, if you want the movie, this is the DVD to get.

Verbatim:
Big Black Guy: “It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving.”

In a word: Cashed-up