Coming 2 America — Review Thread

That’s an editor thinking ‘nah, no one will notice, it’ll be fine’ in the age of people catching everything.

Coming 2 America(1/7/2022)
During the pandemic it was seen as something of a coup when Amazon picked up the rights to debut this long awaited Eddie Murphy sequel on their Prime service… then it came out and while reactions weren’t uniformly negative it was certainly quickly forgotten. The thing is I’ve never really understood the reverence a lot of people seem to have for the original Coming to America, which is a movie that has some highlight moments but which otherwise strikes me a completely average Eddie Murphy vehicle… but then again I kind of feel that way about a lot of Murphy’s 80s movies so maybe it’s just a matter of personal taste. This sequel is… certainly a movie? I don’t know it’s a little hard to pinpoint where the problem is. The film brings the cast back and finds a reasonably plausible reason for this follow-up to exist as far as these things go and assembles some good added talent like Tracy Morgan and Leslie Jones to add to things but for whatever reason the laughs just don’t really materialize. It would be easy to blame the film’s tamer PG-13 rating for all this but I’m not sure a lack of nastiness is really the problem here, I think the problem is that Eddie Murphy stopped being funny sometime in the late 90s. The focus here is more on the extravagant excesses of the fictional Zamunda rather than any antics in America, which certainly made sense on paper as those were among the best parts of the original film and in 2021 kind of serves as a backdoor parody of Black Panther, but perhaps that joke was better kept brief as it wears out its welcome pretty fast here. Beyond that a lot of this just plays as fan service for people who’ve seen the original film dozens of times and want callbacks to everything that happened in it and as someone who only saw it once a couple years ago those weren’t overly meaningful to me. Still, as unfunny comedies go this is more watchable than it could have been and I wasn’t too bored watching it but that’s about all I can say for it.
** out of Five

So we’re just gonna shit on SnoBorderZero today?

Are we going to acknowledge that SnoBorderZero worked on the last James Earl Jones movie?

I saw this thread at the top and thought I'd see a comment saying 'Coming 3 America' is in production.

R.I.P. John Amos

I’ll have McDowell’s in his honor.

Amos' daughter says her brother impersonated john for months draining his finances and that the first she learned of her father's death was yesterday in the media posts.

Brutal. Family dynamic destroyed.