Eddie Murphy is a king of movie comedy, but he’s sure made some notorious bombs. That list is embarrassingly long — Holy Man, Norbit, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Meet Dave, Imagine That and A Thousand Words are hard-to-defend failures, both as comedies and at the box office. However, none of those flops qualify as Murphy’s worst ever, at least according to Murphy.

In fact, Murphy made what he considers his worst movie during the hottest streak of his career, sandwiched between 48 Hours, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop, according to Far Out. It’s hard to blame Murphy for the failure. When you’re in your early 20s and people throw obscene amounts of money at you, you take it and run. That’s what happened in the case of the Dudley Moore comedy Best Defense.

Murphy copped to the money grab when he returned to host...