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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Distributor: Amazon Studios Metadata by TMDb Listen to this post: Coming 2 America is finally here. It only took a little over 30 years for the sequel to 1988’s Coming to America to reach us and, to be honest, I was a little skeptical before watching it. Sequels such as Dumb and Dumber To and Zoolander 2 have shown that when you wait too long to make a comedy sequel, the magic that made the original so funny…is gone. Well I’m happy to say that even though this isn’t as good as the first film, it is still a worthy sequel and I enjoyed every minute of it. ....
This article originally appeared in the March/April issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now. During the summer of 1988, in the seemed-like-it-could-have-been-real fictional land of Zamunda, Africa, a charming prince named Akeem Joffer took his 21st spin around the sun and began to ponder the world outside of his royal confines. Those feelings intensified when he met his queen-to-be, who just wasn’t the right fit. Unlike his parents, he wasn’t down for an arranged marriage, no matter how beautiful the bride or lavish the ceremony. (Trust, that wedding would have been everything, but fate had other plans.) ....