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Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America

2021

Craig Brewer

Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley ...

4.0

5,360

Comedy Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet the unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda. A sequel to the 1988 comedy 'Coming to America'.

	Media	Author	Review
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"It doesn't feel like the filmmakers wrote a new script so much as they just ... rewrote the old script."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[A] genial, mostly inoffensive, sometimes quite funny sequel to a beloved comedy from way back in the 1980s."
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"'Coming 2 America' lands on Amazon Prime largely in possession of the first film’s better qualities (...) The laughs are pitched right over the plate with the skill and enjoyment of a team of vaudeville pros"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"The sequel is practically a remake of the original (...) but never risks updating its defiant spirit to speak to a new era of Black Lives Matter"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Even with the retreads and overabundance of nostalgia, there’s a lot of joy in seeing so many beloved characters back together (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Chock full of callbacks, in-jokes, knowing references and replays, 'Coming 2 America' is adamantly, unabashedly one for the fans. Judged solely by that mission, it’s a straight-up, if modest, success (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"A failed sequel that took way too long to come out (...) a toothless, fleetingly funny revisit with some moments of greatness (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		K. Austin Collins Rolling Stone	"A welcome Eighties update (...) It adds characters who fit in so seamlessly they could just have well been in the original (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Viewers who weren’t amused by 'Coming to America' certainly aren’t going to enjoy this retread, but even fans of the original will wonder why they aren’t just rewatching the first movie rather than seeing it duplicated"
		Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"A lovingly made exercise in nostalgia that delivers several genuine laughs, even if it never achieves the comedic excellence of its predecessor."
		Empire	"If it’s missing the charm and Murphy’s magnetism from the first film, Coming 2 America delivers a broad, serviceable return to Zamunda (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Fans of the original will find much to enjoy in this stuffed follow-up, but none of the gags hold as much appeal as watching Murphy back in action."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"While fans may appreciate that director Craig Brewer hasn’t messed with the formula, the movie feels downright lazy"
		Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"Craig Brewer, as a filmmaker, does this movie no favors. No one expects Roger Deakins to shoot this thing, but the film is decidedly flat, blandly paced, and feels like the equivalent of a mall, generic and uninventive"
		Shannon Miller AV Club	"Coming 2 America sticks almost too closely to the beats of the original film (...) It’s clearly meant to function as a celebration of the original film’s enduring legacy."
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"Rehashes old jokes, brings nothing new to the table (...) This Greatest Hits parade is otherwise tired, and in Murphy's eyes, it shows."
		Paste Magazine	"Coming 2 America achieves exactly what an effective sequel should: It reinforces themes from the original film while offering new, intriguing points of tension, nodding to old gags"

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