Results tagged “STEVE MARTIN” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

HAVING just seen the new George Lucas film Star Wars - The Clone Wars (PG / 98mins), I reckon one of the new-style old characters would be perfect for a fresh ad by Cuprinol.

Come to think of it, watching Obi-Wan Kanopaint retreating a fence might be more interesing than trying to keep up with this saga.

We'll be reviewing the film tomorrow when it opens nationwide, but the best part about it is seeing how live action characters have been turned into animated ones.

That's far more interesting than the story.

+ Meanwhile, Steve Martin is 63 today. Two years to his bus pass. Maybe he'll be funny again then... if he wakes up as Blakey. Or maybe not.

HE WAS once known as The Man With Two Brains.

And, when he was, back in 1983, Steve Martin was funny.

Today, you'd have to go back to David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (1997) to find his last decent film, except that wasn't funny ha-ha.

It's pretty distressing to see that he's already written and starred in The Pink Panther 2 for 2009, as if one wasn't enough.

Here's a guy who has already seen fit to inflict two Father of the Bride films upon us and two doses of Cheaper by the Dozen, not forgetting tortuous movies like Sgt Bilko and Bringing Down the House.

Yet, for all that, I did laugh a few times at Steve Martin's antics during the new surrogate mother comedy Baby Mama, in which you can see him playing a guru called Barry. It opens on Friday when I'll be reviewing it in the Birmingham Mail.

If you look at the above dates, you'll notice Eddie Murphy has had a similar career path.

Shrek aside, by my reckoning he's hardly made anything of note since launching his career in spectacular style with 48 Hrs (1982), Trading Places (1983) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).

He's also doubled up on The Nutty Professor and Dr Dolittle movies, as well as giving us his own prize turkeys like Life and Holy Man and the diabolical Norbit - just about everyone's choice for the worst film of 2007.

Martin and Murphy even starred in Bowfinger together in 1999 and couldn't make it better than average.

So, between them, they've given us half-a-century of butt-aching mediocrity.

Thanks a lot fellas. Nice work if you can get it.