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Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America

2021

Craig Brewer

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

4.0

5,346

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'.

	Author	Review
United States	Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"It doesn't feel like the filmmakers wrote a new script so much as they just ... rewrote the old script."	NEG
United States	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."	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	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)"	NEU
United States	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)"	POS
United States	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)"	NEU
United States	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)"	POS
United States	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"	NEG
United States	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."	POS
United Kingdom	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)"	NEU
United States	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."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"While fans may appreciate that director Craig Brewer hasn’t messed with the formula, the movie feels downright lazy"	NEU
United States	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"	NEG
United States	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."	NEU
United States	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."	NEG
United States	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"	POS

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