Funniest scene ever?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Beverly Hills Cop II
fredrik-d-hansson — 21 years ago(February 27, 2005 06:25 AM)
The funniest scene in BHC 2 is where they enters Sidney Bernstein's office and charge him for unpayed parking tickets. I can still laugh when I watch that scene.
I think that scene contains all of what Beverly Hills Cop 2 humour is about. Eddie comes up with a joke and cheat a guy to believe a story to make him get what he wants. It also makes fun of the 80's and yuppie's with Mercedes, HUGHE pilot sunglases and a japanese working in an office.
The lines are classics:- "That's my wifes car! No, no, BITCH!"
- "Caught me!? There are people out there with chainsaws!"
- "OUTCH! Let go of my arm! I'm robbing you!"
- "Aha! It's secret, like a James Bond thing?"
Eddie is also calm and not so hysterical that he can be in some scenes. One of the funniest scenes ever..
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mfoley84 — 20 years ago(August 10, 2005 09:43 AM)
I think when Axel insults Lutz's intelligence and says his name is Johnny Wishbone: Psychic Extraordinare. Then you see Taggart and Rosewood with these embarrassed, deer in head lights looks on their faces and then Axel leaves and he's yelling down the hall: "You're name is Johnson right!?"
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orangerunner — 20 years ago(December 03, 2005 09:25 PM)
Funniest scene ever? Go watch the original Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hrs. Both of those films are Eddie Murphy at his best. Beverly Hills Cop II was just an obnoxious, uninspired retread. Even Eddie Murphy himself has nothing good to say about this movie.
I'm always surprised fellow Eddie Murphy fans have so much appreciation for this movie. -
towelie2002 — 20 years ago(March 24, 2006 12:26 AM)
"Even Eddie Murphy himself has nothing good to say about this movie."
Orangerunner (or anyone else), could you please elaborate on this? What did Eddie Murphy dislike about this movie?
Personally, I think this is the best of the BHC movies, but that's just my opinion.
And I love the Johnny Wishbone scene. That's a crack up. -
beverlyhillscop1984 — 20 years ago(April 01, 2006 08:05 PM)
BHC 1 was the best film of the entire series. As the worlds biggest fan of the movie I will put it like this:
The most series film of the series was Beverly Hills Cop II. In my opinion there were laughs in that film, but it wasn't a comedy like most folks have made it out to be.
To be perfectly honest the only movie in the series that I would consider even close to a comedy is the first one. To me that might be stretching it too much. Because how can a movie be a comedy when soemone gets shot in the head like Michael Tandino did at the beginning of BHC 1? -
MikeHawk — 18 years ago(May 19, 2007 10:22 AM)
It's rather interesting, actually, that the original BEVERLY HILLS COP wasn't written as a comedy at the outset, but gradually evolved into one with Eddie Murphy's involvement in the project. Think of who they intended to play Foley: the thinking at the time of the script's genesis was Clint Eastwood, James Caan, etc. The first person signed to play Foley was Mickey Rourke. When they couldn't finalize the script within the time window that Rourke had, it went to Sylvester Stallone.
The first COP is sort of schizophrenic, in that regard. It IS very funny, yes. But unlike most comedies there are some alarmingly serious, jarringly violent moments in it (the Tandino execution, for example, or even the final confrontation with Victor Maitland). The assumption (or, rather, MY assumption, as a young boy eagerly awaiting COP II) was that BEVERLY HILLS COP II would be closer to an Eddie Murphy movie than to a Sylvester Stallone movie. Who knew that the reverse would actually be true? A fast, slick, hard-edged action thriller directed by Tony Scott would have seemed more fitting for either Stallone or Rourke than Eddie Murphy. If you didn't know better, you'd have thought that they were made in reverse order.
I don't even really think of BEVERLY HILLS COP II as a comedy. What comedy there is in the movie is pretty forced, and only some of it is actually funny. And yet, I still like this movie. A lot. Much of that credit I suppose goes to Tony Scott. This movie LOOKS so damned good (as do all of his early pictures), and is just so watchable, that I am willing to forgive it its cardinal sin: not being terribly funny. As a comedy, I think it's kind of a washout. As an action thriller, it's quite a bit more successful, in spite of the lame, contrived plot. I've always maintained that the real star of TOP GUN wasn't Tom Cruise; it was Tony Scott. If you want to see what TOP GUN would have looked like without Scott directing, give IRON EAGLE a spin sometime. Yikes. COP II is ten miles removed from a great movie (which the original very much is), but without Tony Scott's witchcraft with a camera, I can only imagine how badly it would have turned out.
Probably very much like BEVERLY HILLS COP III, I suspect
(What the HELL was John Landis thinking? Landis! Brother gave us ANIMAL HOUSE, THE BLUES BROTHERS, TRADING PLACES, SPIES LIKE US and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and he gives us THAT BHC movie? What?!?) -
dinorider54 — 15 years ago(September 13, 2010 04:48 PM)
Funniest part in the entire film for me, gets me everytime - Sarge slipping into the pool:
"Axel: (feminine) "I love it when you talk dirty, get your mad ass in this pool"
Sarge: "Axel, GET OUT OF THE GODAMN POOl" Splash!
And the way Billy keeps on laughing at the clothes is classic. -
orangerunner — 19 years ago(May 31, 2006 11:24 AM)
If memory serves, I recall him being interviewed on the Arsenio Hall Show during the press for another film. When asked what he thought about Beverly Hills Cop II the most enthusiastic response he could muster up with was "Cool".
I recall other various articles and interviews (not including the Paramount PR fodder) where he mentioned being disappointed with the film.
But hey, if you loved it, all the power to you!