Eddie Murphy lányával együtt szerepel az Amerikába jöttem 2-ben hirado.hu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hirado.hu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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“Coming 2 America” is the rare sequel whose title sounds identical to the original, which may be the cleverest thing about it. And also the most confusing, bound to throw off anyone trying to delineate the two aloud. You can actually delineate quite easily try “the original one” and “the lousy one,” for instance but those homophonic titles are oddly fitting. They neatly sum up the extent to which this new movie exists in its predecessor’s shadow.
That isn’t terrible or surprising. Few sequels escape those shadows and “Coming to America” (1988) casts a pretty long one, as Eddie Murphy comedies go. Revisiting it recently for the first time in decades was a strange experience, enchanting and deflating by turns. Made when Murphy was at peak stardom, the John Landis-directed romantic comedy plays like a dispatch from a more innocent era and also, paradoxically, a naughtier, less inhibited one. You couldn’t make “Coming to America” now, the logic goe
Thirty years on, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall are Coming 2 America oann.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oann.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.