![]() ![]() Which is hard for me to imagine Jones being okay with, but maybe everyone in the cast just wanted to be a part of this thing, and the less questions asked the better. He faintly remembers Jones’ character as a rapey wild boar. Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, Wesley Snipesįortunately for the Zamundan patriarchy, Akeem finds out he has a son (Fowler) in America, spawned during one drugged night during his Queens sojourn. Sure, some of this is being set up to be dismantled before the credits roll–barely-but still. And Akeem and Lisa (Shari Headley)’s three daughters can’t legally be heirs to the throne. ![]() Akeem’s long-ago-spurned fiancee is still barking like a dog (!). They’re still used as rose-petal sprinklers and royal bathers. In the light of 2021, Zamunda’s culture seems like some Saudi Arabia-level bullshit: Women can’t own businesses. Can you really have a post- Wakanda Zamunda? Not without a radical overhaul, which definitely did not happen (and while we’re thinking about this, why didn’t a Black director get the gig?). Maybe this was always a no-win proposition. He’s likable, but he’s certainly not that. Never make Murphy the straight man! The only possible way this could have worked is if Fowler was a comic talent on the level of a young Murphy. Here, they flip the plot and bring the film’s newcomers (Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, and Tracy Morgan) to the fictional African country, Zamunda, and make Murphy, essentially, the straight man. So, what happened? Coming 2 America seems to fundamentally misunderstand what made the original so funny, which was placing Murphy in the center of a foreign-visitor trope, a prince trying to find a queen in Queens. This despite re-teaming Murphy with director Craig Brewer, who together made the very good 2019 comedy Dolemite Is My Name. And so it’s with a heavy heart that I report that the sequel, Coming 2 America, is deeply, embarrassingly bad. It’s not perfect, as Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy)’s quest for a marriage of equals is undermined by a liberal sprinkling of sexism and a truly terrible ending. Church, Dolemite, & Coming 2 America which (while Dolemite was a good movie for him), Mr Church and Coming 2 America did not do well or people forgot about them.As a relic of 1980s comedy, Coming to America holds up better than most. ![]() Then after 2012, Eddie disappeared Making only 3 Movies, Mr. In the 2000's it was all downhill, Other than the Shrek Franchise, and Dreamgirls (which was an ensemble), Eddie produced bomb after bomb, Showtime, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, I Spy, Norbit Meet Dave, Imagine That, A Thousand Words and family friendly movies Daddy Day Care, The Haunted Mansion which are all a far cry of what Eddie did in the 1980's-90's. and Bowfinger, which is an underrated classic In 1999, He made Life which was his final r rated movie. Then In 1998, it was the beginning of Eddie's family friendly movie phase, Starring in Mulan, Holy Man, And Doctor Dolittle. However, it was unsuccessful at the Box Office. Then in 1996, Eddie starred in the Nutty Professor, where it marked some sort of revival and showed that he could still be good but was short lived in 1997, Eddie made Metro, which many people thought Eddie has done this type of movie before, but some find it underrated. (Boomerang was the only one of these bunch that was proceed to be considered a underrated classic and one of Eddie's best in the 1990's) However, the film received mixed reviews and didn't gross a lot of money like his other film in the 80'sīeginning the early 1990's, Eddie Murphy career began to decline, making Another 48 Hrs, which was not well received was was butchered in editing, The Distinguished Gentleman, Beverly Hills Cop III. Then In 1989, Murphy Directed Harlem Nights, which was a passion project for him, working with his idol, Richard Pryor. In the 1980s, Eddie was on top of the world, making Classics, 48 Hrs, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, The Golden Child, Beverly Hill Cop II, & Coming to America, and his Stand-Up Movies, Delirious, And Raw (Best Defense was the only outliar) ![]()
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