It is more than three decades since Eddie Murphy introduced Prince Akeem Joffer to the silver screen. And now the character is getting another outing, as a highly-anticipated sequel lands on Amazon Prime Video.
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Review: Coming 2 America
Terminator 2,
Caddyshack II,
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj. Most sequels are high risk and low reward.
Coming 2 America is the latest Hollywood classic to go through the sequel machine. 30+ years after the
Coming to America, Akeem (Eddie Murphy) and Semmi (Arsenio Hall) are back in Queens in search of Akeem’s son Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler).
A lot of the original cast has returned – John Amos, Louis Anderson, Shari Headley, and James Earl Jones. The newcomers include Leslie Jones as Mary (Lavelle’s mother), Tracy Morgan (Lavelle’s uncle), Wesley Snipes as General Izzi (leader of Nextdoria), Teyana Taylor (Izzi’s daughter), Nomzamo Mbatha (the royal groomer),and Kiki Layne as Princess Meeka (Akeem’s daughter who wants to be heir to the throne).
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON: 3 ½ STARS If you look on IMDb, there are dozens of titles containing the phrase “dragon slayer.” Movie dragons, by and large have been of the Smaug variety, a beast “The Hobbit” author J.R.R. Tolkien described as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.” There are exceptions of course, like the “How to Train Your Dragon” creatures and the wyvern in “The Reluctant Dragon” who would rather recite poetry than cause havoc. “You’ve got to be mad to breathe fire,” he says, “but I’m not mad at anybody.” This week we can add Sisu the self-deprecating water dragon voiced by Awkwafina in Disney+’s animated “Raya and the Last Dragon,” to the happy dragon list
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Disappointing sequel has its moments
by Veronica LeeFriday, 05 March 2021
Arsenio Hall (left) and Eddie Murphy have great chemistry on screen
Eddie Murphy – one of the biggest stars of the 1980s – has taken his time in making a sequel to the enormously successful
Coming to America, which was released in 1988.
Eddie Murphy – one of the biggest stars of the 1980s – has taken his time in making a sequel to the enormously successful