Review of Coming 2 America (2021) by Impeccabletaste — 04 Mar 2021
Just watched an advanced screening, and dang it was disappointing. I love the original, it is a rare movie you can watch over, and over. That being sad Norbit, The Nutty Professor movies, and Life are 100x funnier than this sequel. It is funnier than Barb And Star if you have seen that.
Pros: Returning characters (Amos,J.E. Jones, etc.).
Eddie, and Arsenio in SFX makeup as characters from first movie, and one new one by Arsenio which was amusing. Wesley Snipes was decent, but needed some funnier scenes. Instead of same thing over, and over.
Leslie Jones did her usual, but a little of her goes a long way.
Cons:
New characters (The Young Male Lead, Luenell, Tracy Morgan).
When I'm watching this movie I want to see Arsenio, and Eddie. Instead I get way too much of the new guy, and his family. Luenell is wasted just sits around for most scenes, and has barely any lines (Why?).
The background songs in this movie are awful, really annoyingly bad. The scene with the young male lead where he raps is head slappingly cringeworthy.
Eddie is way too laid back in this as Hakeem, and only shines when in SFX makeup as another character. In the original he isn't over the top funny as Hakeem but he is more entertaining because of the fish out of water experience he is having in New York. This time he is in Zamunda most of the movie, and it makes Hakeem BORING.
Sorry Eddie, love a lot of your work but this needed a lot more refining.
This review of Coming 2 America (2021) was written by Impeccabletaste on 04 Mar 2021.
Coming 2 America has generally received mixed reviews.
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