Trading Places four stars out of five, classifying "Trading Places" as "Excellent" per the magazine's star rating system, stating that Murphy and Aykroyd are the show-stealers. A review of the film published by "Variety" magazine called the film "a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy." The review gave further commendations to supporting actors, stating that Murphy and Aykroyd "couldn't have brought this one off without the contributions of three veterans - Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche and the droll Englishman, Denholm Elliott" and calling the presence of Jamie Lee Curtis "enjoyable." The film received several
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