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Coming 2 America Director Responds to Rating Complaints ✖ Coming 2 America is a PG-13 movie, and some fans were upset about that fact, but director Craig Brewerisn’t trying to hear it. The original picture had some room to play as an R-rated comedy. But, the filmmaker is asking that fans just don’t blindly discount his film before weighing it on the tone of the original during an interview with CinemaBlend. Coming 2 America has no problem referencing and at times mirroring the 1988 movie. Some of that is to get what Brewer calls a “fairy-tale feel” that ran throughout Coming to America. Prince Akeem was a very whimsical character when you really think about it. His travels through New York City weren’t always the best, but he found ways to find joy in even the rough parts. That’s what the director was striving for with his sequel effort. Even more interestingly,
CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Coming to America is one of Eddie Murphy's most popular films, so the sequel was a highly anticipated affair. Now that the movie is here, it's largely been seen as just fine. The movie is getting lukewarm reviews at best, and critical reception on Rotten Tomatoes is barely over 50%. Clearly not everybody loves the film, there are potentially valid reasons for these criticisms. Director Craig Brewer will likely take the negative responses in stride, but there's one criticism that he does take issue with even though he fully expected to hear it: the fact that the movie is not rated-R.