Movie Review: Coming 2 America
Eddie and Arsenio return, bringing with them friends both old and new Share Updated: 7:22 PM CST Mar 6, 2021 Damond Fudge
Eddie and Arsenio return, bringing with them friends both old and new Share Updated: 7:22 PM CST Mar 6, 2021 Damond Fudge In 1988, Eddie Murphy created a gaggle of some of his best loved characters with the release of Coming to America. His work as Prince Akeem Joffer showed a kind of different side to him, more the romantic leading man as opposed to the smart aleck roles he brilliantly gave us in 48 Hrs., Trading Places, The Golden Child and the first two Beverly Hills Cop films. Not only that, but he chose to break some new ground for his career by playing several other characters under heavy prosthetic makeup. Now Akeem is back in a sequel uninspiringly titled Coming 2 America.As we rejoin Akeem and his wife Lisa (Shari Headley), they are celebrating their 30th anniversar
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To understand what s wrong with
Coming 2 America, we must first understand what was great about
Coming to America, a hit back in 1988. The narrative construction of an African prince (Eddie Murphy) looking for love in Queens worked because it was not about black Africa (which the makers of
Coming to America clearly knew nothing about), but instead concerned black America in Queens at the end of the closing half of a decade that was in every way historical, the 1980s. You had the fall of the Berlin Wall around the corner; you also had the emergence of a new form of popular music, hiphop. And this was the decade that had coursing through it the transition from Urban Renewal to gentrification. The fantasy African prince (there are only three kingdoms left in Africa) was at the right place at the right time.