DVD Review

Trading Places (2007)

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Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Jun 05, 2007; Genre: Comedy; With: Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy; Distributor: Paramount Pictures

By Josh Rottenberg

THE SETUP A street hustler (Eddie Murphy) switches lifestyles with a Wall Street yuppie (Dan Aykroyd).

VINTAGE EDDIE Murphy's Billy Ray insists to the cops he's a blind, legless Vietnam vet: ''I was in Sang Bang, Dang Gong — I was all over that place.... I was Agent Orange.''

WORTHY EXTRAS? Yes, if only for the one archival promo clip that shows Murphy and Aykroyd, both in their prime, doing dueling old-Jewish-man impressions. A-

Posted May 25, 2007

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