Coming to America
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- Synopsis
- Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride....
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- Starring
- Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley
- Director(s)
- John Landis
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 116 min.
Critic Reviews
Though Coming to America is a romantic comedy the director steers the film more often toward quick, in-and-out comic situations and gags that are only mildly funny. In part this is due to the fact that Mr. Murphy plays the prince with cheerful, low-keyed innocence that is completely legitimate, but is not supported by the short attention span of the screenplay. The romance is tepid.Read the full review
Coming to America isn't as aggressively awful as the "Cop" films or "The Golden Child," but at least in those films there was something to react to. In making Coming to America, Murphy seems to have set his sights on the lowest prize imaginable. He aspires to blandness.Read the full review
The main pleasure in America comes in the romancing of prince and pauper. But the comedy is a mere handmaiden.Read the full review
