Another reviewer in here mentioned that for everything that Cobra Kai gets right in the nostalgia department coming to America part 2 gets wrong. It seems like almost every character from the first makes an appearance in this one. But where they get it wrong is that very few of these characters really add anything to the movie. And someone forgot to tell them that coming to America was a comedy because coming to America part 2 is void of laughs. People sometimes hyperbolize when they are angry at a movie they thought they were going to like but in this case I can be honest with you and tell you I'm not exaggerating when I say I didn't laugh once in this film.
One thing that brings this film down is Tracy Morgan. He brings down most films that he's in and here he adds nothing and he's annoying most of the time. The Leslie Jones character is flat-out horribly written as well. There's not one shred of honesty in anything that she says or does with the exception of her reaction to getting bathed by the royal bather.
Where as the original had charm and humor and a lot of fun characters this one recycles the same old jokes except they don't work this time. Eddie Murphy maybe just isn't funny anymore. He'll always be a comic genius to me but maybe you just get complacent and lazy when you get older.
The runtime was around an hour and 45 minutes and I think a half an hour of it was spent on dancing. It felt like every 15 or 20 minutes there was another 10 minute dance sequence. You do it once but three or four times just gets to be excessive.
Unfortunately the characters that we do like from the original, like Lisa McDowell and her father, Louie Anderson and especially Semi are just given cursory glances and really don't have anything to do in the film. We needed more soul glow and more sexual chocolate and more humor. We might have even needed John Landis to bring his eye for detail to the film.
Coming to America joins the ranks of other horrible sequels to beloved films. There is even a sequence in the film where two of the characters talk about the sad state of Hollywood and that all that really exists right now are superhero films remakes reimaginings and sequels to films that nobody asked for. They should have realized that instead of this being tongue-in-cheek it was actually 100% true.
1/10
One thing that brings this film down is Tracy Morgan. He brings down most films that he's in and here he adds nothing and he's annoying most of the time. The Leslie Jones character is flat-out horribly written as well. There's not one shred of honesty in anything that she says or does with the exception of her reaction to getting bathed by the royal bather.
Where as the original had charm and humor and a lot of fun characters this one recycles the same old jokes except they don't work this time. Eddie Murphy maybe just isn't funny anymore. He'll always be a comic genius to me but maybe you just get complacent and lazy when you get older.
The runtime was around an hour and 45 minutes and I think a half an hour of it was spent on dancing. It felt like every 15 or 20 minutes there was another 10 minute dance sequence. You do it once but three or four times just gets to be excessive.
Unfortunately the characters that we do like from the original, like Lisa McDowell and her father, Louie Anderson and especially Semi are just given cursory glances and really don't have anything to do in the film. We needed more soul glow and more sexual chocolate and more humor. We might have even needed John Landis to bring his eye for detail to the film.
Coming to America joins the ranks of other horrible sequels to beloved films. There is even a sequence in the film where two of the characters talk about the sad state of Hollywood and that all that really exists right now are superhero films remakes reimaginings and sequels to films that nobody asked for. They should have realized that instead of this being tongue-in-cheek it was actually 100% true.
1/10