Review – Trading Places

For a John Landis movie, this one isn’t too bad. Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd star as a bum and a broker who end up in each other’s shoes thanks to a cruel experiment conducted by the broker’s callous bosses. Throw in Jamie Lee Curtis as the hooker with the heart of gold, and top it off with a collection of stock characters and sight gags. The result is a par-for-the-course situation comedy that manages to provide a few smiles and for the most part avoids getting bogged down in its own moral. Murphy, Akroyd and Landis have all made worse movies. Mildly amusing