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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 29, 1988 |
Starring:
Eddie Murphy
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A very wealthy and pampered African prince comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion, he quickly finds a job, new friends, new digs, new enemies - and lots of trouble. (Paramount Pictures)
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Eddie Murphy does everything in this movie successfully. Coming To America remains his most personal work and a great argument that a movie can be decent and wholesome despite having enough profanity to make Bill Cosby lose sleep. A perfect argument for Eddie Murphy as decent guy even without the fame and fortune. Not that he's planning on giving it back though.
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Eddie Murphy's latest picture, Coming to America, is a harmless, fairly amusing comedy that will delight Eddie Murphy fans and keep everyone else mildly entertained. [30 Jun 1988, p.E1]
The romantic stuff is tepid. Luckily, his onscreen buddy, Hall, never strays far. Coming to America is at its best when they're playing off each other, and not just as the prince and his buddy. [29 Jun 1988, p.69]
Murphy takes on a softer edge than usual this time: the plot recalls a Jeanette MacDonald operetta of the Depression, the mythical African country looks like a Beverly Hills fever dream, and, true to Murphy's idealized black middle-class view of things, everybody gets what he wants without much fuss or sacrifice, and virtually the only poor people in evidence are white.
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In past celluloid lives Eddie Murphy has been responsible for a handful of the most popular movies ever made, which explains why he has been able to bring Coming to America to your neighborhood theatre with its misogyny, technical ineptitude and witlessness intact.
May 28, 2018
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Dec 24, 2021
Coming to America is one of the best movies ever made. Several scenes defined pop culture and the soundtrack was amazing. Gave a positive image of Africa as well at a time when this was difficult to do.
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Jun 5, 2017
Eddie Murphy at his best. This my all-time favorite movie. I have maybe watched this film over 100 time, and at one point I knew all the lines word for word. Arsenio Hall, and James Earl Jones serves as great supporting character in this classic coming of age movie.
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Jul 11, 2020
Still funny as it was in 1988, They don't make comedy movies like this anymore. The story and acting is great.
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Jul 17, 2008
The movie's story isn't that original, but Eddie Murphy delivers a good job and the most jokes are quite funny.
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