Beverly Hills Cop 2: Better Action But Not As Funny As The First?

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When a movie is as massively successful as Beverly Hills Cop, a sequel is a given. After all, it was a movie that outgrossed Ghostbusters to become the top movie of 1984, despite an R-rating. With Murphy’s career at a fever pitch, the actor did something unusual - he took two years off from movies to cut an album! His comeback movie The Golden Child, made some series money, but nowhere near what Beverly Hills Cop did, so Paramount ordered a sequel that would be the blockbuster moneymaker they needed. But, Beverly Hills Cop 2 would be different from the original, with a slicker director in Tony Scott, a bigger budget, more action, and perhaps a little less charm than the original, which we dig into in this episode of Revisited.