VIDEO. Eddie Murphy returns with “A Prince in New York 2” after a checkered career spanning nearly 40 years

We find Eddy Murphy in the film A prince in New York 2, available since Friday March 5 on the Amazon Prime platform. Eddy Murphy, it’s 40 years of an uneven career. Almost impossible to forget the heyday of the American actor in the 80s, those of video clubs, VCRs, fluo and synthesizers born in Brooklyn.

Early stand-up star Eddie Murphy first made his name to the American public with the cult NBC show, Saturday Night Live, at all times nursery of many future comedy stars, such as Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd.

He then goes on to monumental successes at the rate of one film per year, brewing millions of dollars. We especially remember 48 hours, An armchair for two, The Beverly Hills flick 1 and 2, The sacred child of Tibet or in 1988, the first part of a Prince in New York, directed by John Landis. Propelled superstar, king of the box office, Eddie Murphy becomes at the same time inevitable, indispensable, “bankable”, omnipresent to the excess, to the point of playing several roles by film as in The Nutty professor.

But the actor is also unstable, even paranoid in his private life. In the early 90s, his films were less successful, the reviews were negative and he then specialized in more family films, such as Doctor Dolittle, and lends his voice to Mushu in Mulan from Disney, or to the donkey in the franchise Shrek, which will relativize his crossing of the desert in Hollywood.

Eddie Murphy’s moderate comeback will take place in two stages. First in 2006 with the film Dreamgirls with Beyoncé, inspired by the history of Motown and the Supremes. He narrowly misses an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and 13 years later, an eternity in Hollywood time, good reviews are returning for his 2019 incarnation of artist Dolemite in a Netflix production.

It is perhaps both the platforms, which have become essential, which will breathe new life into his career, but also therefore the resumption of old recipes, since besides A Prince in New York 2, released by Amazon Prime, a fourth Flic de Beverly Hills is announced on Netflix.