{"id":258888,"date":"2025-11-12T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258888\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:30:09","slug":"being-eddie-movie-review-film-summary-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258888\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Eddie movie review & film summary (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBeing Eddie\u201d is the latest Hangin\u2019 with an Icon doc to drop on Netflix. The streamer has previously given us non-fiction flicks where celebs like Sylvester Stallone<\/a> and Martha Stewart roam around their gigantic properties, reminiscing about the ups and downs they went through to become the wealthy-as-hell, pop-culture phenomena they are today. Now, it\u2019s Eddie Murphy<\/a>\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n

The comedy legend wanders around his California mansion\u2014complete with a retractable roof\u2014cracking jokes, entertaining his family, and watching episodes of his guilty pleasure show \u201cRidiculousness\u201d (which reminds him of Alejandro Jodorowsky films) in the bummy-casual doc. Every now and then, he\u2019ll sit down and mosey down memory lane for director\/veteran film editor Angus Wall\u2019s camera, flipping through old fan magazines and talking about his days as a leather suit-wearing rock star.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing Eddie\u201d takes you back to Murphy\u2019s lightning-fast rise from \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d scene-stealer to A-list movie star, coming with hits (\u201c48 Hrs.\u201d \u201cShrek\u201d) and misses (yes, \u201cVampire in Brooklyn\u201d gets mentioned) and inspiring future comedy stars along the way. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, and his recent \u201cThe Pickup\u201d co-star, Pete Davidson, are just some of the contemporary peers who confirm Murphy\u2019s influence on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murphy often sits with a cocked head to the side when he talks, remaining both sage and suave as he tells his life story, often looking like he\u2019s surprised most of it happened to him. This formerly scrawny kid from Roosevelt, Long Island, had a mission to be a star, and it happened\u2014way too early, you might say. Dude was still in his early twenties when \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d made him a megastar. You\u2019d think that Murphy would have some hella hedonistic anecdotes from that time. But Murphy swears he\u2019s a shy, straight-edge square; he even turned down coke from John Belushi and Robin Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d gets into Murphy\u2019s now-decades-long, self-imposed exile from stand-up. While Murphy says his superstardom prevented him from working material out in clubs, I can\u2019t help but think that Murphy looks back on his raw and delirious stand-up years\u2014some of his jokes, especially involving gay people and women, have not aged well\u2014with a bit of embarrassment. Those jokes may have made him a star, but it also set off a wave of Black comedy (\u201cDef Comedy Jam,\u201d anyone) where homophobia, misogyny, and excessive dick-swinging became the norm. In retrospect, all those family comedies he started doing in the \u201890s and \u201800s now seem like him atoning for his wicked youth.<\/p>\n

But much like those aforementioned Netflix docs, \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d prefers to give a less problematic hagiography of its star. John Landis shockingly shows up to riff about his experiences directing Murphy in \u201cTrading Places\u201d and \u201cComing to America.\u201d But neither Murphy nor Landis goes into their now-notorious clashes on the \u201cAmerica\u201d set. (Even though Murphy once said Landis had a better chance working with Vic Morrow again than with him, they did reunite for the better-left-forgotten \u201cBeverly Hills Cop III.\u201d)<\/p>\n

While both Murphy and the movie exude a lively, laid-back coziness, an unshakable cloud of death hangs over this thing. Murphy admits he\u2019s had to bury a lot of people over the years, from mentors to friends to the people he impersonated on \u201cSNL.\u201d (He forked over dough to give the actor who played the original Buckwheat from \u201cOur Gang\u201d a proper headstone.) Even his fellow young, Black trailblazers from the \u201880s\u2014Michael, Prince, Whitney\u2014are all gone. Memories and interview snippets from Charlie Murphy, Eddie\u2019s big brother\/former head of security\/\u201cChappelle\u2019s Show\u201d star who died of leukemia in 2017, are also sprinkled throughout this film.<\/p>\n

But Murphy refuses to look back in anger. The man remains optimistic, even when discussing death. With Murphy\u2019s 2019 return to \u201cSNL\u201d serving as the joyous finale, \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d presents an Eddie Murphy who seeks to entertain (on his own terms, of course) as long as he\u2019s still got air in his lungs.\u00a0His days of big entourages and bad-boy swagger far behind him, Eddie Murphy is now comfortable being a freakishly talented family man\/comic Buddha. And after you see the way that he lives in \u201cBeing Eddie,\u201d can you blame him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBeing Eddie\u201d is the latest Hangin\u2019 with an Icon doc to drop on Netflix. The streamer has previously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-258888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}