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‘Coming 2 America': All the Callbacks and Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed And the story behind that sneaky “Trading Places” cameoSamson Amore | March 8, 2021 @ 9:05 PM Photo Courtesy of Amazon Studios Eddie Murphy’s “Coming 2 America” is a comedy reboot that doesn’t shy away from callbacks. The sequel, which arrived last week, is loaded with references, innuendos and outright repeat jokes from the 1988 original, like the classic Mets jacket getup and even some recycled old footage. Some of the gags are hard to spot if you — like many viewers — were busy taking in the ...

CinemaBlend Last weekend, a few anticipated films dropped on streaming and in theaters. Amazon’s Coming 2 America was one of them with so much riding on its success thirty years after the original film. All the promotion – interviews, commercials, internet campaigns, etc. – seemingly paid off big for the company. According to Amazon, the viewership for the comedy sequel was huge. According to Deadline, Amazon reported the comedy sequel came in as the number one streamed movie, topping its nearest rival SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run from Paramount+. Amazon pointed to Scre...

Eddie Murphy’s much-anticipated sequel to the 1988 comedy is archaic in its portrayal of both black Africans and Americans as well as being devoid of humour

Coming 2 America is an unfunny disaster for representation Kovie Biakolo © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Quantrell D Colbert/Amazon Studios The shortcomings of the much-anticipated comedy sequel Coming 2 America are too many to list. But they all begin and end with the unfortunate yet predictable truth that the film simply didn’t need to be made. Inundated with tired tropes and stereotypes of black people on both sides of the vast Atlantic, it is difficult to grasp the objectives of the movie, parse through its dubious humour and imagine who its intended audience i...

Amazon Hangs Giant Coming 2 America Banner to Celebrate Release ✖ Coming 2 America got a giant banner from Amazon to celebrate the release of the sequel. The Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado plays host to the large flag on the side of its surface. Viewers are probably wondering what it has to do with the film, not a ton really, but it’s pretty surreal to see Eddie Murphy’s mug on the side of the highest suspension bridge in North America. Fans are clearly loving the film, which released a little early last week. Thursday night and Friday were filled with tweets about recurring bits from t...