Coming to america 2
Amazon
*ing: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Wesley Snipes, James Earl Jones
Rated: 3/10
It is not only strange but bizarre that a movie’s sequel would be released 33 years after the prequel. However, what is even worse is that while Coming To America (the original) directed by John Landis and based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy was a rom-com that managed to keep one engrossed in the film — at the end it was a love story, part two is anything but funny or even remotely romantic in nature. Unless one considers a few scenes spent on two young people talking alone with one of them aspiring to open a salon of her own.
Here she befriends a prince no less and supposedly in love and her dream is to open a salon of her own!
One does manage to get over this rather strange dream but what one can’t get over is the unfunny dialogues. Not only are the risque, the hand gestures are even worse. And what the hell was Wesley Snipes thinking when he agreed to this boggles the mind. It does obliviate his better work — Blade series comes to mind.
Directed by Craig Brewer and produced by Kevin Misher and Eddie Murphy, this sequel may have started off on a good note but unfortunately all it manages to do in the 110 minutes is make you cringe.
May be Murphy thought that revisiting the original that had a cult following would be a great idea but all he manages to do is makes one wonder why he needed to do this in this horrible manner that take away from its prequel.
Coming To America, the must awaited film ends up disappointing and is a huge bore.
Watch only if you have nothing else to do and want to catch up on the stars of the original movie