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This article originally appeared in the March/April issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now. During the summer of 1988, in the seemed-like-it-could-have-been-real fictional land of Zamunda, Africa, a charming prince named Akeem Joffer took his 21st spin around the sun and began to ponder the world outside of his royal confines. Those feelings intensified when he met his queen-to-be, who just wasn’t the right fit. Unlike his parents, he wasn’t down for an arranged marriage, no matter how beautiful the bride or lavish the ceremony. (Trust, that wedding would have been everyt...

In "Coming to America 2," the apologetic streak is pronounced: "I’m so sorry you can no longer indiscriminately touch a woman’s body at your every whim,” Eddie Murphy says to Eddie Murphy at one point in a barbershop sequence.

The 33-years-later sequel “Coming 2 America” starts poorly but gets funnier and more likable as it goes, and it’s stolen by a newcomer to this particular nostalgia tour: Wesley Snipes,

Somewhere between Wakanda and Nexdoria among the fictional nations of Africa lay Zamunda. People old enough to have grandchildren will remember it as the opulent but silly place from which

In "Coming to America 2," the apologetic streak is pronounced: "I’m so sorry you can no longer indiscriminately touch a woman’s body at your every whim,” Eddie Murphy says to Eddie Murphy at one point in a barbershop sequence.