Coming 2 America Review: A Fun Watch Despite the Mediocre Script!

Eddie Murphy as the Zamundan king returns to America one more time in Coming 2 America, directed by Craig Brewer. When I watched this, I didn’t even realize that this is a sequel to the movie with the same title in 1988. That means it didn’t matter if one haven’t watched the first one before seeing this one.

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Viewing it as a stand-alone comedy, I had a great time. Coming 2 America was over-the-top with exaggerated characters. For me, even though the jokes were simple, they worked well, and I laughed many times throughout the runtime. As a comedy, that’s all it takes to win me over. It might not be funny to some. I loved all the actors, especially Eddie Murphy, who played multiple characters in the movie.

Even more, the movie looked very colorful and lively as there were many fun dance performances. The costumes were also great. As for the story, it was very predictable as I knew what was coming. Toward the end, it became cheesy and dragged out too much. The theme of breaking the old conservative rules and embracing who you are was clear in the movie, but the cheesiness of the movie didn’t make this theme feel all that important.

Overall, despite the mediocre script, I still had a fun time with Coming 2 America, probably due to me being pretty easy with jokes. Watch ‘Coming 2 America’ on Amazon Prime Video here.

Rating – 3.25/5 | Grade – B

Review by Nguyen Dang
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