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Scott Lumley: I'm trying to answer the question and coming up empty. When was the last time Eddie had an actual "hit"? The last certified hit that didn't have the words Shrek in the title that he was a major part of has to be Daddy Day Care, and that opened in second place with $27 million. (And no, I'm not counting Dreamgirls. And even if we did, that one never placed higher than third on any weekend either.)

Without being too flippant here, the only reason I can come up with in Eddie's case is that if you throw enough stuff at the wall, sooner or later something will stick. Unfortunately for Eddie, that wall seems to be made of Teflon since about 2003.

I remain hopeful that the fourth installment of Beverly Hills Cop might snap some life into him and give us back the Eddie Murphy we all used to know and love.

Sean Collier: Let me simplify: he's done. He's done. He's done, forever. There's no hope. Beverly Hills Cop 4 might make some money, but six months later, the next thing will bomb. Maybe one of these entries will succeed here and there in spite of him, but mark my words: his career is over, barring a complete, Bill Murray-esque reinvention.

Max Braden: For this film, it had the same basic story as Bedtime Stories but lacked the big set pieces. It also lacks the romp of Daddy Day Care and The Rock's successful family films. The leaves a movie that's too adult drama to appeal to kids and too soft to appeal to adults. That doesn't mean you've got a bad product, but the "know your audience" rule still applies.

Eric Hughes: I wouldn't say he's done. People tended to like him in Dreamgirls. But he sure does need to go through some kind of reinvention. Clearly he's not winning over the kiddies anymore.

Jason Lee: Can anyone in all seriousness say that they read this film's synopsis, watched the trailer and or sat through one of the commercials of this film and thought to themselves, "Wow, this film will make money"? This was a total trainwreck from the beginning from me - a total waste of the paper that the initial storyline was sketched out on.

Reagen Sulewski: I thought this looked like it could have been decently tolerable, with a distinct lack of bodily function jokes. But then again, maybe that's where they went wrong.

Marty Doskins: The one thing that I noticed was that the commercials didn't really do a great job of telling the premise of the movie. As a better example, I remember the commercials for Bedtime Stories. The kid in the movie would say something like "rain jelly beans" and it would show jelly beans falling from the sky. You got the idea that the kids were controlling Adam Sandler's life. I just didn't get that sense from the Imagine That commercials.

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