Official Coming 2 America Thread

Dr. Narcisse

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This is on Eddie for it not being very good to great.

Should have let Coogler have a shot at it or bring in another talented black director.

Coming to America works because John Landis was one of the great directors in the 80s and he was in a tough spot so he had to let Eddie cook more.

This needed a fresh director/approach. Not Craig Brewer and Kenya Barris.


Still enjoyable, but for this amount of talent on-screen, it should be better.
 

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I enjoyed watching it cause I love these characters and like what they did with them. But i didn’t find it that funny. Way too reliant on callbacks, including a couple egregious ones in the end.

Comedy sequels are tough cause it turns into a greatest hits album and people want the hits not the new shyt. And I think that mentally held the movie back from going new places. It works thematically especially in context of the first one but it’s just not that funny.

that said I don’t think it’s possible to do a sequel to this that’s going to please everyone. At all. No way to capture lighting in a bottle twice. This is probably the best version of this that could’ve existed.

And maybe it’s just me but the PG13 shyt doesn’t help either.
 

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Was it the original? Hell no
Was it enjoyable? Yeah

Me and the kid got laughs outta it & Lisa McDowel is still :noah: to me

Pretty much my thoughts. Nowhere near the OG but still makes an enjoyable experience.

I don’t fukking care, I clapped when Randy ”GOAT” Watson appeared :wow:
 

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It was OK. You'd think it'd be better produced with the amount of star-power they have. All of the women look amazing :shaq:
 
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