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Subject: Trading Places (Review)
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 14:47:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 14:47:35 1983
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Trading Places: stars eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd

not even Eddie Murphy was able to save a poor script. The laughs were
half hearted, the story was prepostorous (for example eddie murphy 
turning into a financial whiz in about 5 min flat...) and I thought the movie
was 
1) racist: somehow, no one laughed very hard at any of the racist jokes,
mostly because they didn't come across as jokes...
2)sexist: for no apparent reason, we get treated to several women
showing their breasts, without ever adding to the story. (i have to
admit I didn't know Jamie Lee Curtis had such a nice body though...). this
kind of nudity is unwarranted, and reinforces the point that women are
sex-objects. 
	Also, we had one more example of that famous male fantasy, the
golden-hearted whore. this makes even less sense when you realize that
at no time is the fact that Curtis is a prostitute really have anythging
to do with the movie!! 
3) a rip-off: one scene in particular was a DIRECT rip-off of one of
richard pryor's funniest moments ever, the "I'm BAADDD" routine in
Stir Crazy.

conclusion: sophomoric movie that wasn't very funny, and not worth
seeing. 2 stars.
					Alexis Porras
					ihuxk!alexisp
					Bell Labs, IH