stunt artists still don't have a category at the Oscars. they're performing on screen, writing and directing entire sections of movies. it's insane.

3:00 Mary and Eddie Murphy have the same laugh! 😂😂

"Mike is saying Mike things to Mike... now he's a Mike" was worth the price of admission alone. Love Mary.

Coming to America is a great movie with a surprisingly great cameos!

Chief Inspector Todd in Detroit was in real life the Detroit police department Chief Inspector of homicide. He never acted in anything else but the Beverly Hills Cop movies.

13:33 the funny thing about how he laughs at their outfits here is that Eddie Murphy basically wore the same type of outfit for his stand up special entitled 'Delirious'.

The actor playing "Serge" is Bronson Pinchot. The first time I saw Bronson act, was in a weekly American TV series named "Perfect Strangers" (1986 - 1993). He played an Eastern Mediterranean farmer (Balki Bartokomous) who came to America to live with his Midwest American cousin, Larry Appleton (Played by Mark Linn-Baker). The accent Bronson used to portray Balki was much the same as the one he uses to portray Serge. One of Balki's famous catch-phrases was "Don't be re-di-koo-lus" (ridiculous).

Those are great. The Golden Child is pretty fun too

absolutely watch comming to america

"48 Hours" and "Trading Places" are two of his 3 best...

Yes, PLEASE watch Coming to America as well! 🙌🏾 Beverly Hills Cop 2 is good also!

I believe the joke of Serge's accent is that it's what you might call "vaguely European." Or rather, an American viewer would call it that. We don't know how much of his accent is just a nationality we can't identify, and how much is just him being weird.

Watcg 48 Hours with Eddie and Nick Notle

22:55 We've seen Bogomil in Robocop before 😁

25:50 Mary, this may be your greatest moment! Pop through the nose! 😁 👍👍

Coming to America is gem of a movie.

The guy with the 'fruit plate' is Damon Wayans. He went on to a big television and movie career himself in the States. That was one of his first roles. Bronson Pinchot played the art house manager. He went on to star in a successful tv show, Perfect Strangers, where he played an immigrant from Eastern Europe who came to the States. They made his character a more family friendly version of his character in this film. Paul Reiser is Axle's side kick in the beginning. He was the villain in Aliens and went on to have his own successful tv show in the early 1990's.

The beginning of this movie was the inspiration for GTA 😂 The actor who plays Billy is *Judge Reinhold* who was in *The Santa Clause* movies, also the cutoms supervisor (23:45) is actor *Rick Overton* who plays the bearded drunk guy who wants flap jacks in *Groundhog Day.*

One of the funniest action comedy movies ever made! Sylvester Stallone was originally going to play Axel Foley and he wrote the screenplay, which was a lot darker and more violent than the final cut of the movie. Paramount executives read the script but they turned it down. Stallone would turn his rejected script into the 1986 action adventure thriller COBRA.

I'm so happy that you recognized Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad. So many reactors miss that 😊

Fun fact, that song they keep playing is actually called "Axel F" after the main character Axel Foley.

The Axel theme song was played on all of the jazz radio stations when this film was released.

FYI, the reason the number changed to 112 is so that it's the same everywhere in the EU. So you don't have to memorize the local number when you travel, it's always the same one

The younger detective (Judge Reinhold) was in "Fast Times at Ridgemount High" with Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage.

1. Movie magic: An entire truck loaded with EMPTY cigarette boxes. 2. IMVHO Eddies' best movies are "Trading Places and "Coming to America" 3. Serge/Bronson Pinchot was in a funny series "Perfect Strangers". 4. Jenny/Lisa Eilbacher played Segar in "An Officer and a Gentleman" HINT HINT 5. Maitland/Steven Koff is one of the best bad guys ever! He also played the Soviet Colonel in Rambo II. 6. Billy/Judge Reinhold played Brad Hamilton in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".

Detroit is in the northern United States, amid the Great Lakes. Beverly Hills is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the southwestern part of the country, on the Pacific Coast. The distance between them is about 3700 kilometers, or about 2300 miles. Axel's boss, that tough Detroit police inspector, was played by a tough Detroit police inspector, Gilbert Hill. He was on Detroit's city council for some years, and tried to become mayor, but he wasn't elected. That's break dancing, my dear, not "broke" dancing.

😎👍 Another really fun Eddie Murphy movie that is also set in Beverly Hills is "Bowfinger" (1999).

ART GALLERY guy Serge, that's Bronson Pinchot, who is hilarious in this with a fake unknown accent, and the character makes a return in a later film, but after this movie, he blew up on a sitcom called Perfect Strangers, one of my favorites, playing another "foreign" character who comes to live with his cousin in America. That show is how we got Family Matters, as the mom from it was on the Perfect Strangers, working with the main character at the newspaper, aka spin-off.

the name of the catchy song is "axel f" short for axel foley, and was written for this film. regarding taggart "oh he can give orders now ?ok ". well, sure, he's a sergeant. below captains and lieutenant's, but above the regular officers.

Mary-Bowfinger with Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin is really good. A funny movie about filmmaking with Murphy as his own nerdy alter ego.

Just so you have a better idea, that $235 hotel room in 1984 would cost over $710 today. Off topic, but have you ever reacted to "Euro Trip"? I think a European perspective would be interesting (it's a comedy). "Coming to America" is funny and an Eddie Murphy must see. The sequel to this is pretty good also "48 Hours" is Eddie's first movie; it's a buddy cop movie.

YES!!!! Coming to America is a mush watch!

Fun fact: the hotel worker at the end of the film that Axel asks about the price of the robes is actually the director of the film, Martin Brest.

The bad guys in this movie definitely have stormtrooper aim.

Eddie Murphy's Movies have always been a big part of My Life, especially since My Childhood: 80's & 90's!😂I'd Highly Recommend Both "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "Coming to America"👈the latter has a Clever Callback to "Trading Places!"👌

The actor you should recognize in this film is a younger Jonathan Banks (bad guy Zack), today famous for playing the legendary Mike Ehrmantraut in BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL.

Paul Reiser, who plays Axel's colleague Jeffrey at the start of the movie, was in Stranger Things, The Boys and also playing the company guy that screws up in Aliens. And you should definitely watch Coming to America, and Beverly Hills Cop 2... the 3rd movie is not as good as the first two, so watch it for the completion value. :)

One of the reasons they changed emergency numbers to be irregular in many countries (e.g. 112 or 911) is to prevent toddlers or little kids from accidently dialing them if they get hold of the house phone.

Ronny Cox (Lt. Bogomil) has had a great film and TV career. He is also an accomplished musician, who goes on tour. His first film appearance was in the classic thriller "Deliverance" (1972) with Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Jon Voight. In one scene, he plays the famous instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a banjo-playing mountain boy, played by child actor Billy Redden. He was the Bad Guy in RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990). He has said that he loves playing villains much more than good guys. He even played a pain-in-the-butt jerk Starfeet Captain in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". 😄

Bronson Pinchot/Serge, made up the accent on his own… the guy who gave Axel the bananas is Damon Wayans

I like surprises... from people who know what I like.

The start was filmed and took place in the city of Detroit. The "police Chief" was played by controversial retired Detroit police chief Gilbert Hill (amazing). Axel Foley was a hero to many youths of the period especially locally.

Bail (aka a bond) doesn’t make the charges go away, it’s simply a surety that the person will return to court to face the charges without having to remain in jail awaiting the court date. Minor charges get a small bail amount or even just a promise to reappear (own recognizance bond) while major crimes can go up into the millions or “no bail granted” on crimes such as murder. If the person fails to show up at the court date, the money is forfeited and the person will have a warrant issued for their arrest.

The role of Serge is played by Bronson Pinchot who also played the part of Balki Bartokomous in the TV series Perfect Strangers. he has this very bizarre accent that he uses for foreign characters he plays.

7:29 Detroit is across a river from Canada (Windsor, Ontario; and in an oddity, Detroit is actually north of Windsor) and Beverly Hills is next to Los Angeles. About 3,000km away.

Yes! Definitely see "Coming to America," too!!

Great response. I’m glad you liked the movie. Coming to America is a must. Also The Golden Child and Mr. Church.

Hello from Los Angeles! (A few blocks away from Beverly Hills, lol).

Nutty Professor! The outtakes alone are so funny I cry every time. Eddie is one of the funniest people to ever live.

You'll enjoy "Coming to America, " probably more than "Beverly Hills Cop." "Trading Places" is a classic. Aside from those three ... well, Eddie Murphy has been in a lot of bad movies for someone as charismatic as he is.

7:55 And thusly did Mary invent "pool sharking".

AHHHHH YES, SUPER COOL MARY!!! 💯😊AND YOU DEFINITELYYY SHOULD DO 2 ALSO AT LEAST 👍ENJOYYYYY THIS ( 40 ) YEARS AGO NOW CLASSIC!

The buffet attendant who gave Axel the bananas is comedic actor Damon Wayans, older brother of Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Wayans, who you saw in "Scary Movie"

13:49 This guy was in a long running sitcom, Perfect Strangers, in the late 80 / early 90s. He used the same accent in that show and he was supposed to be from the island of Mypos in the Mediterranean.

38:32 - Mary, as Americans living in Los Angeles, we all have big homes with swimming pools. To get around the issue of walking long distances between rooms to find people when we want to talk with them, we use to have two-way intercoms in every room. Thankfully now we just text each other so we don’t have to walk over to the intercom. My wife and I haven’t spoken to each other since 2002. Even laying one meter from each other in our California King bed, we text each other. And now that Apple makes iDog collars, we simply text with our dogs too! (We would with our cat too, but she has an attitude and sometimes won’t reply to our texts for 2-3 days. Cats!) ❤ And Serge’s accent is because he is Flemish. His mother was a Citroen mechanic from Brussels and his father was a French speaking lace maker from Ghent. He went to college in Los Angeles on a competitive cow milking team scholarship to study late 20th Century Dutch literature and worked for Victor to pick up extra spending money. Just after this movie came out he got his immigration card, moved to Seattle, and co-founded Starbucks. (In case you were interested.)

Mary! Bronson (Serge) PInchot's thing was talking in weird accents. You can also bet his initial interaction at the gallery with Eddie Murphy was improvised. His hilarious accents won him a role as wide-eyed innocent immigrant Balki Bartokomous on a sitcom TV series (Perfect Strangers).

Serge is played by American actor, Bronson Pinchot, who was famous for playing a similar character in the '80s tv series, Perfect Strangers. His grandparents on his father's side were Russian immigrants who settled in France, and he said Serge's accent was intended to invoke those vaguely Eastern European accents. Architectural style of Viktor Maitland's mansion is Spanish Mission and is extremely common up and down the California coast, including for the villas of the wealthy of Southern California. Draws a lot of its styling from the missions that were set up here (by missionaries) when this region was under Spanish/Mexican control and they were attempting to convert the indigenous tribes. But it also suits the Mediterranean climate zones here, especially in SoCal.

The guy who plays Ltn. Bogomil was also in Robocop, the guy who plays Victor Maitland was also the bad guy in Rambo 2. The guy who gives the bananas is one of the Wayans brothers from "In Living color" TV sketch show. Those are the "familiar faces" I can think of. Axel's partner in Detroit was in some sitcom with Helen Hunt (?), but I don't remember the name.One of Victor's goons was also a goon in Scarface - the guy who Tony Montana asks "do you want a job", right after Tony had killed his former boss.

Yes, that's Mike Ehrmantraut. If you like the music in the strip club, it's a lady band called Vanity 6.

"ok, guess the dinner is off" left me in stitches :D great reaction !

3:58 - Mary there, laughing 100% in tune with The Pointer Sisters in the background.

Do both

@37:06 and 39:20 Billy Badass! He timed it right and went in after Maitland and his crew left. If he went in too early, he would have been horribly outnumbered, and if he waited too long, Axel would have possibly been dead. Then, he takes down a bad guy with one shot while standing in the line of fire. Billy’s the unsung hero of this movie.

ICYMI Crazy Frog covered Axel F in 2005 and it seems this generation is quite familiar with the cover version and animated character without knowing it originated here.

I was SO looking forward to Mary reacting to Serge... the accent was funny and I wanted to see a European call it out. 😂

Love your reaction videos! And I never choose the "skip" option during the commercials in order to ensure that you get paid for your work. Trading Places is one of Eddie's funniest movies IMO.

"Captain Ron" is another great easy watching movie with Kurt Russel.

The actor playing Axl’s boss was a sitting city council member in Detroit for decades.

Detroit is in Michigan and Hollywood is in California. If that helps. Detroit, Michigan is 2044 miles (3289.499 km) East of Hollywood, California

I'm from Detroit in the era this movie was made. We're known for being a very crime riddled area in all of America, even today. Beverly Hills, California is known to be one of the richest places in America (Beverly Hills, Michigan is also very rich), so a young cop from Detroit in Beverly Hills was an amusing contradiction/irony when the film was made.

Judge Reinhold (Billy Rosewood) was Brad in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," Ronny Cox (Lt. Bogomil) was in "Deliverance" and "RoboCop," John Ashton (Taggart) was in "Midnight Run," and Bronson Pinchot (Serge) was Balki on the TV show "Perfect Strangers." You spotted Jonathan Banks already.

Yes! Dives on the play button.

In 1986 (I was 11) & in band we played this soundtrack - the movie was huge. Back then most (American anyway) parents didn’t care if we watched R rated movies. At all. “Axel F”, Foley’s theme, felt so cool at the time😃

The Bronson Pinchot (Serge from the gallery) meeting Achmed errr, I mean Axel is honestly my favorite scene in this movie.

Bronson Pinchot made up the fictional accent for this movie. He was later cast in a TV show called "Perfect Strangers" where he used the same accent. You may have seen Billy in Gremlins or Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Beverly Hills Cop 4 comes out in July. An Eddie Murphy film I like is Bowfinger.

Mary! You and Axel have similar laughs! I'm so happy you did this reaction; this is one of my favourites 😊

Beverly Hills is in California. It is about 2,300 miles (~3,700 km) west and south of Detroit, Michigan. Michigan borders Canada while Beverly Hills is reasonably close to Mexico. It's quite a distance.

27:42: The actor playing Taggart was actually laughing in the “supercop” scene.

The tune AxelF was covered for Crazy Frog ringtones years later, when people would buy ringtones for their phones. Became a racing game as well. You missed Axel's cop friend in Detroit who was the sleazy exec in Aliens, and the Beverly Hills Lieutenant was the bad guy in Robocop and Total Recall. I'm pretty sure at the time Detroit was the murder capitol of the US.

Loved your reaction, Mary. Clearly you had so much fun... 💝

There's a cameo of two characters from Trading Places in Coming to America. Great movies, both of them.

That's the Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, belonged to the famous silent comedian, you can see it in lots of movies.

Beverly Hills is in Los Angeles. Multi-millionaires, movie stars, etc live there. Very nice place.

6:19 This is the theme song, Axel F. When I was a kid some guys came to my school to demonstrate electronic instruments and one guy played this whole song.

Yup! Jonathan Banks had a couple of hit movie roles this year. First Gremlins and then this one. He mostly did TV back then.

For the record, Detroit is 2295 mi (3693.444 km) from Beverly Hills. According to Google maps, going the most direct route nonstop will take about 34 hrs.

At 27:40 John Ashton is rubbing his face, trying not to laugh. LOL

His friend (Mikey) was probably using the fridge to cool off. That is why he left the door open. Axel probably doesn't have an AC in his apartment.

'Now he can give orders?' Taggert is a Detective Sargent (it is mentioned in one of the early interactions with Foley in the Police Headquarters) IIRC the rest of the squad are just Detectives. So if there is not a Detective Lieutenant or the Captain present, yes he is in charge. If you found the character Billy interesting, you should definitely watch Beverly Hills Cop 2. He has a bit of character 'development'.

48hrs and the 2nd instalment of Beverly Hills cop are amazing too. Cheers!

Hi Mary ! Great reaction You have already seen the actor playing Billy here in Gremlins, where he played Gerald, Billy and Kate's superior at the bank. And the one who plays Axel's annoying colleague in detroit also played in Aliens, the role Burke (the bad guy from the Weyland company)

There are a lot of great Eddie Murphy movies I could just list off that you'd want to see, but one of my recent favorites is Dolemite Is My Name and I love his care in giving a person whowas essentially a lesser star than himself a huge spotlight and care of the guy. Eddie Murphy as great as he is gets better with time.

Great reaction Mary like always. For a period of time in the 80's. Eddie Murphy was the biggest star in the world. He was the world's number one stand up comic and had the world's number one movie at the same time. He also had a hit song! 84 was a monster year for movies. Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, Police Academy, Footloose and Beverly Hills Cop among others. This was originally written with Sylvester Stallone in mind. Disagreements over the script led to him converting the movie into the film, Cobra. Eddie Murphy was also planned to play Winston in Ghostbusters but he took this movie instead. Yes. The instrumental, “Axel F. Foley Theme”, was written for this film and it became a international hit in the 80's. Keep up the good work.

23:58 - "By the way, let me know if I've seen these actors in other stuff..." - His friend at the police station at the start was Paul Reiser, who played Carter Burke in Aliens. "I work for the company, but don't let that fool you, I'm really an OK guy." The Beverly Hills police chief is played by Ronny Cox, who played Dick Jones in Robocop. "I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake."

Just FYI: Detroit, Michigan is just under 2300 miles (3700km) northeast of Beverly Hills, California. 🙂 It's a 34-hour drive by car (assuming no stops for meals, fuel, or anything else, so figure more like a 3-to-4-day trip in realistic terms), or roughly a 5-hour non-stop flight.

I saw this in the theater at the time. He blew up on SNL in 1981 in his second year when they fired the whole new 1980 cast and kept the 2 background players that we'rent really in anything and so they couldn't be blamed for anything, lol. And that was Eddie Murphy nd Joe Piscapo. I watched his second year when him and Joe basically took over the show and he singlehandedly saved the institution. He had Trading Places and 48 Hours before this movie which made him a movie star. But this movie made him a superstar.

The second 'Beverley Hills Cop' movie is absolutely worth watching. Another great Eddie Murphy movie is 'Daddy Day Care' or 'Doctor Doolittle'!

I've seen an argument online that with the pool shoot early on that Mikey actually won the bet as the 8-Ball bounced off three cushions and not two. Either it's a blooper that got past the editors, or they left it in to perhaps suggest that Mikey was too drunk to notice the third cushion bounce.

I have a ball watching your reactions as well as hearing some of the stories that you share. I really enjoy your sense of humor!!❤😊

On the map of the USA, Detroit is close to the northern border with Canada and roughly at the halfway point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Beverly Hills is one of the dozens of cities that make up the Greater Los Angeles Metro Area and is not too far north of the Mexico border on the Pacific coast. They're about 3200 kilometers apart.