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With little surprise or bite, Coming 2 America is a lacklustre sequel – Sydney Morning Herald
This belated follow-up to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 romantic comedy fails to solve the problem of what comes after the happy ending.
All this takes a while to unfold, given the necessity of providing screen time for a raft of characters old and new. Murphy once again appears not just as Akeem but in several other guises, aided by elaborate makeup; Arsenio Hall, reprising his role as Akeems manservant Semmi, pops up elsewhere in the same way.
The other legacy cast members are comparatively wasted. Jones, so sly in the original, has hardly more than a cameo, and Headley gets little chance to explore what Lisas fairy-tale marriage…
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