Carter, the masterful Oscar-winning costume designer behind some of the greatest Black movie looks in history ( Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, What's Love Got to Do With It, B*A*P*S, and Black Panther, to name just a few) again pulls out all the stops here. Time has been kind to all these familiar faces, who seem to be having fun revisiting these characters.īut to borrow from a real-life queen – the Queen of Soul, as it were – what is there to say about Coming 2 America, a rehash with a convoluted, awkwardly rendered plot and some truly backwards perspectives? Great gowns. Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back as Zamundan Prince Akeem and his BFF and personal aide Semmi James Earl Jones briefly reprises his role as King Jaffe Joffer, alongside John Amos (as the fast food restauranteur Cleo McDowell), Shari Headley (Akeem's love interest, now wife), Paul Bates (Oha, the royal servant with the voice of an angel), and Vanessa Bell Calloway (Imani, Akeem's would-be betrothed in the first movie who memorably barks like a dog at his command). Surprisingly, considering such a long gap, most of the beloved original cast has returned in parts both big and small. A shade that will live in infamy and memes.Ĭraig Brewer's Coming 2 America, the sequel to the enduring Eddie Murphy hit Coming to America, has arrived 33 years after its predecessor. " pragmatically applied to a real-world situation. Those were the words thrown out by the one and only Aretha Franklin several years ago, when pressed by a journalist to say the first thing that came to mind at the mention of Taylor Swift's name. Eddie Murphy returns as Prince Akeem in Coming 2 America.
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