'Coming 2 America' Sows More Than Its Royal Oats
'Coming 2 America' Sows More Than Its Royal Oats
Not quite a sequel, nor a remake, the movie reunites Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall with the rest of the gang - as well as fantastic new faces - for a welcome Eighties update
K. Austin Collins, provided by
March 4, 2021
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I don’t envy the job of anyone tasked with taking a classic Eighties comedy —
Coming to America, say — and making a decades-later sequel that tries to please its guaranteed audience. Namely, everyone who loved the original, people who’ve rewatched it a million times, who have Soul Glo memes saved on their phones, who know every word to Sexual Chocolate’s song who — as in my case — grew up in families where