Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This romantic comedy/drama never found its feet thematically. The essence of the narrative is Marcus Graham, the leading role played by Eddie Murphy, who is known for his slickness with the ladies when he meets his match in colleague Jacqueline, starting the morality play regarding relationships which is severely undermined and contradicted.Since the morality play forms Boomerang's primary theme it should have been handed better. Once Jacqueline began to reject Marcus Boomerang solicits sympathy towards him as being emotionally abused. Considering Marcus' previous actions had been satisfying his needs at the expense of women, it was very hard to feel sympathy towards him and produced nothing for character development. Especially as he betrayed Gerard, one of his best friends by sleeping with Gerard's love interest. It contradicts Boomerang's intentions as to some extent Marcus never changed his ways and as a result Gerard, who was the most honourable character and the type of personality Boomerang vainly strived Marcus to be, to the wayside. It churns itself out into an overdrawn story trying to keep hold of the audiences' attention but only highlighted Boomerang as a flawed film.When Boomerang was not focusing on its primary theme, it was mostly filled with characters whose sole aim seemed to be acting out situations for nothing more than comedy. Eartha Kitt as randy Lady Eloise whose blatant attempts to seduce Marcus came across as more repelling than funny, Chris Rock as assistant Bony T whose personality traits offered nothing more than a few laughs and Yvonne (Tisha Campbell - Martin), Marcus' former flame and coincidently next door neighbour who spent her time insulting him and warning potential suitors about his womanising. In spite of the screen time these characters had, it felt they were only filling void spaces to keep viewers entertained when Boomerang was meant to be dealing with relationship issues. Even Helen Strange, played with direct ferociousness by Grace Jones and offered a great critique on the ridiculous personalities of the advertising/fashion industry, came across as style of substance increasing Boomerang's superficialness in trying to present in depth the complications between men and women.Overall it's not surprising reflecting over Boomerang's theme and narrative that the conclusion is one of imbalance. If a different, more serious approach was taken without the starling contradictions and aiming for entertainment value rather than being earnest, Boomerang may have been a better film.

Having only heard and seen clips of this movie for the last 20 years, I finally watched Boomerang on Netflix Streaming just now. Once again, Eddie Murphy got together with his writers from "Saturday Night Live"-Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield-and made another romantic comedy that turned out to be a success like their previous one in Coming to America. And once again, they got a fine supporting cast accompanying them like Lela Rochon (having previously appeared in Murphy's Harlem Nights), Robin Givens, Martin Lawrence, David Alan Grier, Chris Rock, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt and a newcomer named Halle Berry. Oh, and Tisha Campbell also appeared before her teaming with Lawrence in his upcomimg series "Martin". This time the director picked was Reginald Hudlin with his brother Warrington as co-producer after their success with their debut feature House Party. Like Coming to America, this was a nice change of pace for Murphy from his previous wise-ass characters but with both funny and touching scenes. Really, I had a good time watching this. So on that note, I highly recommend Boomerang. Oh, and the person who played a commercial editor looked familiar so I looked at the cast list and found out he was played by the one and only Melvin Van Peebles!

The scenes with the male actors (Murphy, Greer, Lawrence) have some humor. The jokes are OK, the actors are good, and they have very nice chemistry together.The love scenes, which there are several of, are very lame. Adrian Lyne should have brought in to direct them.The scenes of Murphy with the female characters are boring and repetitive. It becomes a struggle to get through them after awhile, which is a problem as they make up most of the movie.Score and soundtrack are nice, very early-90s.Some of the details are neat, such as the advertising spots.Most importantly, Eddie Murphy is portrayed as a huge stud. And quite effectively so.

Typically I don't like Eddie Murphy since his range is so limited and his humor wasn't funny in 1980 and hasn't changed much since then however....he breaks that mold and does a pretty decent job. He pulls off suave without being smarmy and except for the middle part of the script where he fails to see he's being played it works.It doesn't hurt that the movie has some gorgeous ladies (Halle, Robin Givens, Grace Jones). As a player Eddie shows some great style as not seen since the Tao of Steve.An underrated movie and worth the time to watch.