Rated or Dated: Beverly Hills Cop (1985)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Eighties smash Beverly Hills Cop is absolutely steeped in nostalgia for Jen, Hannah and Mick alike. But, despite its banging soundtrack, charismatic leading man, and textbook English baddie, can it be anything but dated? Are our childhoods about to be ruined? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.0	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.0	Silly bookers? Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.
0:17.0	Stop booking around and visit Onthebeach.co.
0:20.0	Conditions apply. Seven night minimum stay, outbound only from selected airports from stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.
0:22.2	Conditions apply.
0:25.5	Seven night minimum stay, outbound only from selected airports for up to six people,
0:26.3	at all protected.
0:29.7	On the beach.
0:45.1	Hello and welcome to rated or dated. I'm Hannah Dunleavy and this week I am joined by Mickey Noonan. Hello. And picker of this week's film, Jen Offord. Hello. So Jen, what film
0:53.7	that has a soundtrack so funky that it suggests that they want us to be dancing
0:59.4	and watching a film at the same time?
1:02.6	Do you not always do that?
1:04.4	Just like this.
1:05.5	Anyway, that worked for a podcast.
1:07.6	What did we watch, Jed?
1:12.1	And this week we watched, that was The Heat is on, by the way, in case it wasn't abundantly
1:16.2	clear. This week, we watched Beverly Hills Cop released in the UK, well, actually as it
1:22.8	transpires, on the 25th of January, 1985. But we'll allow it because it's Beverly Hills Cop.
1:30.0	Directed by Martin Brest, who was also responsible for few Meet Joe Black and Gigli.
1:36.1	The screenplay was written by Daniel Petrie Jr. who also wrote Turner and Hoot.
1:41.9	Oh.
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