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Directed By
John Landis
Written By:
David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein
Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley, Don Ameche, Louie Anderson, Paul Bates, Allison Dean, Eriq La Salle, Calvin Lockhart, Samuel L. Jackson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Bell Calloway, Frankie Faison, Vondie Curtis-Hall
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Coming to America (1988)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 9th, 2007
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Back when Eddie could do no wrong (supposedly)
Remember when Arsenio Hall used to be the sh*t? There was that brief blip in time when the man had a popular late night television show, getting his audience to bark like dogs when he would emerge on stage. He also starred in a slew of Murphy films with his buddy. Now no one really knows or cares who he is or where he's gone to.
I never really understood why so many people thought this was a funny movie. Made during the time when Murphy was still playing around with acting it practically every role in a movie (the only characters that were safe were the women. My, how that's changed), this was the golden era of Eddie. People thought he could do no wrong.
Now, perhaps it's because I'm not black that I don't get what's so funny about most of this movie. It's not as if it tried to be super exclusive either. It never really gets in deep and goes all the way with the black humour. But it is worthy to note that this was one of the first movies with an entirely black cast. (Well, that's what they claim, but the two men from TRADING PLACES are in the movie, so I don't understand why they get to make that distinction.)
Which means that you get to see a young Cuba Gooding Jr prior to him making you show the money and a young Eriq La Salle before he was cutting open fake bodies on ER. It also means that you have a bunch of Eddies playing everything else, chewing up the scenery and making this an movie that is rare on the laughs.
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 | Zombie Boy
May 9, 2007 3:59 PM
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This movie has three points that keep it in my good graces:
1. Soul-Glo.
2. Sexual Chocolate.
3. Arsenio Hall calling Samuel L. Jackson a "diseased rhinoceros pizzle." |
 | Tim
May 10, 2007 2:06 AM
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| I always think how great it would be to have a woman tell me that my royal penis is clean.... |
 | Penny
May 11, 2007 3:21 AM
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| Never seen it. And now I don't really want to. |
 | Terrence
May 12, 2007 9:34 PM
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Zara I hate to say it in this case but to use your own words "..perhaps it's because I'm not black that I don't get what's so funny about most of this movie." But thats ok. Most white people can't relate to sitting in a black barbershop and listening to old black men tell these outragous stories or most white people never grew up having a jerry curl or had relatives or people in the neighborhood that had hair like that.
It's like some of my black friends who never could get "Gleaming the Cube" or "High Fidelity".
But this is not a Two Star film. |
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May 9, 2007 4:44 PM