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BOWFINGER - VIDEO REVIEW

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Here is the video version of my Bowfinger review.

BOWFINGER - REVIEW

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Here's a Frank Oz comedy with a premise so good it really should be much more remembered than it actually is. Bowfinger sees Steve Martin play a desperate film director who attempts to make a trashy science fiction film with a big star (Eddie Murphy's Kit Ramsey) by shooting him and splicing him into the film without him ever knowing it. Unfortunately, Ramsey is a bit, shall we say, quirky and believes aliens to be real so all these weird goings on quickly get to him. Like a cross between Ed Wood , L.A. Story and The Nutty Professor , Bowfinger is a goofy love letter to filmmaking that's tons of fun from start to finish. The Murphy/Martin duo works perfectly and neither actor has really been quite as good in a straight-up comedy as they are here since. Sure Novocaine and Shopgirl were pretty good, as were the Shrek movies, but there's a refreshingly old-fashioned approach to Bowfinger which gives it more of a cult comedy feel than the others. This is the ki