Coming to America User Reviews

Coming to America is the hallmark of African American humor that appeals to a mainstream audience that still considers it as one the funniest movies of all time. Who hasn't seen it? Better yet, who hasn't quoted it? The movie's intention is to use risible but outlandish humor, while not especially good in forming an original romantic comedy, this movie deserves accolades for asserting cultural motifs - most notably, the barbershop scenes and the beginning courtship dance for the prince's political marriage. These scenes can rarely be found on major motion pictures before Coming to America, and isn't re-imagined in Hollywood until much later. Coming to America is an 80's original and helped define that movie era. Don't leave it to the Washington Post or the New York Times to critique this classic, or in the words of the Jewish customer at the barbershop at the end of the movie, "Whadaya know from funny!". -Kalimah A. Priforce

06/12/2008, 9:54 am