Trading Places 7.4/10. The site's consensus states: "Featuring deft interplay between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, "Trading Places" is an immensely appealing social satire." Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 9 critics, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Author and critic Richard Schickel of "Time" magazine called "Trading Places" "one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times". While admitting Aykroyd's success in demonstrating "perfect prissiness as Winthorpe", Schickel commented on Murphy's performance as Valentine calling Murphy "a force to be reckoned with" and stating that he "makes "Trading Places" something more
Trading Places by a recognition of their faults and no revolutionary desire to see the world formed on a new basis." David Budd, in his 2002 book "Culture Meets Culture in the Movies", writes about the experiences of characters when the expected roles of races in society are sometimes reversed. The 1995 fiction film "White Man's Burden" and John Howard Griffin's factual book "Black Like Me" are used as a foundation to show how different the experience of white people can be when subjected to the prejudices faced by black people. In that respect, Budd proclaims "Trading Places" as "uncannily illustrative if