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| | Film Threat - Reviews |
 | | Eddie Murphy first utters the signature catchphrase "It's showtime!" within the first ten minutes of "Showtime," but audiences will spend the entire film waiting for that declaration to take root. |
 | | As good as these gags are, they feel like they are a warm-up for something bigger, better to come -- something that, alas, never comes, for the film rarely ever gets as funny as these sequences. |
 | | Credited writers Jorge Saralegui, Keith Sharon, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar were apparently of the mind that the mere idea of the cop TV show was strong enough to carry an entire motion picture, giving little thought to the actual crime-solving angle of the buddy-cop formula to which the film so slavishly adheres. |
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