Candy Cane Lane review: Bleak pickings for the Season of Joy

Updated On: 01 December, 2023 04:30 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

`Candy Cane Lane` has an obvious Christmas celebration written into it but it’s not the entertaining, joyous engagement we all were expecting.

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Eddi Murphy in Candy Cane Lane

Candy Cane Lane
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Genneya Walton, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Madison Thomas, Nick Offerman, Chris Redd, Robin Thede, David Alan Grier, Ken Marino, Anjela Johnson Reyes
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 108 mins

From Reggie Hammond in ‘48 Hrs’ to Chris Carver in ‘Candy Cane Lane,’ Eddie Murphy has come a long way - but it’s not all to the good. Of late, his career hasn’t been hitting the right notes and his most recent outing, an all-out Christmas season effort, may not be all bad but it certainly doesn’t ring any bells. At 62 years, he looks decades younger but the zingy comic timing and fast-talking effervescence isn’t working any magic anymore.

`Candy Cane Lane`, one of a three-picture deal that Murphy has signed with Amazon, marks a reunion for Murphy and director Reginald Hudlin, whose `Boomerang` (1992) brought Murphy out of one of the frequent dumps he has been in over the years. `Candy Cane Lane` has an obvious Christmas celebration written into it but it’s not the entertaining, joyous engagement we all were expecting.

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