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This belated follow-up to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 romantic comedy fails to solve the problem of what comes after the happy ending.

Eddie Murphy Fans Are Loving Coming 2 America Though it was scheduled for a March 5th release, Amazon Prime surprised subscribers by sharing Coming 2 America a day earlier this Thursday, allowing Eddie Murphy fans the chance to dig into the comedy sequel sooner than expected. And seeing as they’ve been after more from Prince (now King) Akeem and company for over 30 years, reducing the waiting time by 24 hours was a nice touch. The good news is that social media seems to be loving the new mo...

The 1980s and 1990s were Eddie Murphys time to shine. His three-year run on "SNL" was the jumping-off point that morphed into a movie career that kicked off with "48

A lot has happened in the 33 years since Coming to America hit theaters in 1988, just a few weeks before NWA’s single “Straight Outta Compton” became a phenomenon. Eddie Murphy is no longer the box office star that he was, and the America of today has a different kind of racial awareness than America in 1988. Murphy was then one of the biggest movie stars in America, with a string of hits under his belt, including the Trading Places and the Delirious and Raw. And while the mostly wh...

Whether it’s rapper The Notorious BIG getting the long-overdue documentary treatment, or British Spider-Man actor Tom Holland showing off his acting chops without the spidey suit, these five original films, documentaries and TV shows should be on your list for March… ‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’, Netflix Already winning rave reviews, this Netflix documentary follows the life and career of rapper The Notorious BIG, real name Christopher Wallace, who was shot dead at the age of 24 in...

The Cast Of Coming 2 America Then And Now Take a look at where each character left off in the original movie and how theyll appear in the sequel before its premiere on March 5 Loading the player… When Coming To America arrived in theaters in 1988, the comedic fairytale skipped over wicked stepsisters and glass slippers to become a runaway hit and an important part of the Black film canon. Starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and Shari Headley, the colorful characters in the movie introdu...

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Eddie Murphy is back, and back up to speed, in ‘Coming 2 America’ By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated March 4, 2021, 3:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Released in 1988, “Coming to America” is probably the most congenial comedy in Eddie Murphy’s filmography. The story of a royal prince from the fictional African country of Zamunda who looks for a queen in — where else? — Queens, N.Y., the movie is as broad as a barn and twice as sweet-natured. You’d have every expect...

‘Coming 2 America’ Film Review: Eddie Murphy Plays the Hits in Rote Sequel Nearly every joke from the first film gets retold or rerun in this super-safe, long-delayed follow-upAlonso Duralde | March 4, 2021 @ 12:00 PM Last Updated: March 5, 2021 @ 9:21 AM Photo Courtesy of Amazon Studios Every so often, we get sequels that move a story forward, that enrich beloved characters and the world they inhabit, or that upends and deconstructs the first movie entirely. But most of the t...

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