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Boomerang The Rewatchables
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Boomerang

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

Grace Jones is chosen for an exaggerated performance, with particular praise for the restaurant leg scene and the energy expected from her casting.

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  • Grace Jones is the only developed candidate.
  • Her restaurant leg display is praised at mock-Oscar intensity.
  • The panel agrees the performance is dialed up but argues casting Grace Jones necessarily means getting that energy.
Boomerang The Rewatchables
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Boomerang

What’s Aged the Best?

Halle Berry’s performance receives the final first choice; Jeffrey Holder’s ad pitches, the Martin television origin story, period slang, Eddie Murphy’s reactions and clothes, the role reversal, Strangé ads, Star Trek riff, Angela’s breakup, and the heartbreak-and-recovery arc are also praised.

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  • Jeffrey Holder makes the deliberately vulgar Kissable ad pitch funny through the character’s sincere disappointment at being restrained.
  • The episode reports that Murphy’s praise of Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell helped inspire their pairing on Martin.
  • “Hammer time” and “the twizzah” remain instantly recognizable bits from the movie.
  • Murphy’s comic orgasm and Grace Jones’s helicopter entrance are singled out as physical and visual comedy.
  • Angela is praised as an unusually complete romantic-comedy character whose humor, warmth and natural presence were underused later.
  • The film’s gender role reversal remains clear in how Jacqueline controls the sexual relationship with Marcus.
  • The first Strangé commercial and Eartha Kitt’s horrified reaction preserve the campaign’s escalating absurdity.
  • Marcus improvising Spock Jenkins is praised as an early example of casual pop-culture conversation inside a movie.
  • Angela’s breakup line and real slap give the emotional turn force.
  • Marcus’s no-tie wardrobe is described as sharp and still wearable.
  • The loss and recovery of Marcus’s confidence is treated as an identifiable relationship arc.
  • Halle Berry’s charisma and complete performance receive the final selection.
  • A longer discussion argues Black actors can receive different, often richer opportunities from Black directors, producers and writers.
  • Berry’s uneven 1990s roles are contrasted with the promise visible in Boomerang.
Boomerang The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

John Witherspoon’s entire dinner sequence is Bill Simmons’s and Van Lathan’s selection; Wesley Morris chooses Grace Jones’s first perfume-boardroom scene. The lunch, Lady Eloise encounter, Robin Givens flirtation, art class, pool game and rooftop reconciliation remain major alternatives.

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  • The opening lunch establishes the three friends through Marcus’s dating philosophy and Martin’s asparagus riff.
  • Marcus sleeping with Lady Eloise and then meeting Jacqueline at work is praised as a perfect six-minute comic sequence.
  • Jacqueline’s party flirtation works because Robin Givens matches Eddie Murphy’s confidence and control.
  • The art-class scene is praised for Eddie Murphy imitating the little girl, recalling his earlier comic appeal.
  • The John Witherspoon dinner is praised for its mushroom outfit, sexual advice, bathroom reveal and improvised family chaos.
  • One host argues the dinner also explains Gerard’s vulnerability and why Marcus’s later betrayal hurts him.
  • The pool game makes Marcus’s embarrassment over Angela visible while preserving the friendship’s comic rhythm.
  • The rooftop reconciliation culminates in Martin arriving late to demand another hug and then moves into the P.M. Dawn song.
  • Two hosts select the Witherspoon sequence.
  • Wesley selects Grace Jones’s first boardroom pitch and the “Steel Vagina” suggestion. — Wesley Morris
  • One objection is that the dinner sequence was shoehorned into the story and is not needed for the plot, even though its comic digression is pleasurable.
  • The scene evokes Black theater and its later Tyler Perry counterpart, bringing class tensions into the comedy. — Wesley Morris
  • The chitlins in a wealthy household and Angela being asked to handle them are described as a collision of Black culture and snobbery. — Wesley Morris
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Boomerang

1992

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Boomerang

1992 film

Bill Simmons · Van Lathan · Wesley Morris

Aired May 26, 2020

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