Coming 2 America: this Friday March 5th on Amazon

It's amazing his fall. The same as other people I thought he was brilliant in his 80s movies but man has he done anything good in 25 years? The nutty professor, Norbit? Terrible.

I watched Dolomite which was decent in fairness.

have we not suffered enough

Apart from the scenes with the barbers You could almost pass this as a Hallmark film.

dubstepper wrote: »

Now that's an insult!

Yeah, Hallmark are not that bad!

I heard a review on Nova, gave it top score 5/5.

In the past the review has ripped apart films and often gives low scores so I was listening thinking he would tear it apart.

This was their proper reviewer, not a throwaway comment from a random presenter.

https://www.nova.ie/review-coming-2-america-197042/

Coming 2 America – 5/10

Not that bad, but not great. Despite being somewhat of a cult classic, I don’t think the original is a work of genius that should never be touched. I wonder if a lot of the negative reviews come from people who place the original on a pedestal and worship it as sacrosanct comedy classic?

The bad: It is a weak script, with recycled jokes and it strikes me as very lazy to drop scenes from the first film in there. The writing for Leslie Jones is painfully unfunny. I feel sorry for her as I think she is a likeable and funny lady, but it seems that script writers look at her and think;
“Big loud black lady! Write her typical big loud black lady lines!” Mmmmmmm Hmmmmmm!

The good: Much like Dolemite, Murphy is putting the effort in. He still has great chemistry with Arsenio Hall. Wesley Snipes is in scene stealing form and continues his flamboyant comedy schtick that we saw in Dolemite. But the most impressive thing is the costume design. If this does not get an Oscar nod, I’ll be stunned.

I know a few people have commented on how they felt the appearances from antiquated musical artists seemed a bit forced and out of place, but I though that was a decent attempt at trying to recapture some of that John Landis madcap 80’s spontaneity that featured so heavily in Coming To America and Blue Brothers.

I was a little disappointed in the lack of screen time for the Barbershop scenes. It made me think that all those hours in make-up trying to recreate Rick Baker’s amazing work were a bit pointless.

The ad for the film came up yesterday, I didn’t lift my head. The accompanying tune and dialog was enough to gather I will never watch this film.

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Absolutely not true. He's still one of the funniest men on earth.

His episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfield was hilarious. And he was barely trying

Apart from a couple of exceptions like Bowfinger and Dolemite Is My Name, its the Films he's chosen for two decades or more now that are the utter dregs

But Murphy himself is still funny

I love Eddie and after reading a book about early SNL called 'Wild and Crazy Guys', I watched/rewatched all his 80s movies. Even The Golden Child had a few great moments.

However, I was a bit sceptical when I first heard about his supposed comeback a few years ago and that particular episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was ...off. Just very, very low energy. Or watch his 'monologue' at the SNL reunion a few years back - Chris Rock has the most amazing intro and Eddie walks out, tells no jokes and is done in about 2 mins. I get it, he's a lot older, but the spark is gone. It's nowhere to be seen in this pointless 'victory lap' sequel.

silverharp wrote: »

48 hrs, trading places, absolutely must see films at the time, Coming to America was more his cash grab phase.
If this film had been in the cinema it would be a massive bomb

Disagree. Coming to America was his concept (based on the 'bare-necked b*tch' stand-up routine a few years previously). The other movies you mention weren't written for him - even Beverly Hills Cop was originally offered to Stallone.

His cash-grabs were usually defensive in nature - Beverly Hills Cop 2 was a cash-grab because The Golden Child flopped. Another 48 Hours was a cash-grab because Harlem Nights (his concept, he wrote and directed) flopped.

I enjoyed it! Felt it was a decent sequel to the original, bringing back all the cast and introducing loads more characters.

There was a nice energy to the movie and everyone looked like they were having fun with the whole thing (especially Snipes), the running time zipped along quite nicely.

I'm not sure what people were expecting, this was never meant to be a 'serious' movie, it won't be on any Oscar shortlists (apart from maybe the costumes as a poster mentioned earlier- they were a stand out)

A good natured, humorous sequel for me, but each to their own!