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'Coming 2 America' Sows More Than Its Royal Oats 'Coming 2 America' Sows More Than Its Royal Oats Not quite a sequel, nor a remake, the movie reunites Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall with the rest of the gang - as well as fantastic new faces - for a welcome Eighties update K. Austin Collins, provided by March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail I don’t envy the job of anyone tasked with taking a classic Eighties comedy — Coming to America, say — and making a decades-later sequel that tries to please its guaranteed audience. Namely, everyone who loved the original, people who’ve rewatched it ...

After 32 years, Eddie Murphy returns — along with James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall and other original cast members — in a fun sequel to 'Coming to America.'

It's almost hard to believe that it has be 33 years (!) since we were first introduced to the character Prince Akeem as played by comic legend Eddie Murphy in Coming to America. When I heard that there was a sequel being made, I was excited but also had some trepidation as sequels almost never live anywhere close to the originals.

Coming 2 America reviewed: The 80s called, they want their movie back Hollywood needs to stop remaking and making movie sequels from two or more decades ago that nobody asked for and Eddie Murphy needs to accept that his brand of comedy just doesn't work this side of the year 2000. Coming 2 America premiered globally on 5 March 2021. Picture: Supplied. 43 days ago JOHANNESBURG - Imagine a parent who was very popular and cool back in the 1980s when they were in high school trying to relive their glory days ...

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...