all right well a lot of elements in this movie that were from the first movie so shorter answer is watch coming to america the first one it's enjoyable and it's a better version of this movie but if you want to stick around for a review and watch me ramble for a few minutes well here we go [Music] coming to america so coming to america is a sequel to coming to america i'm not going to do that the whole time i guess calling it coming to america too would probably be easiest so when coming to america too it's been decades since the events of coming to america eddie murphy's character akeem he learns he has a bastard in america so he goes and gets him and brings him back because he's gonna be the heir to the throne and talking about what i liked in this movie hands down my favorite part of this movie was wesley snipes he's this military leader this dictator of this neighboring land which is great that you start seeing other places you're like i always thought like what's the land around this but like who were the neighboring countries the wesley snipes i thought crushed it but that's where you start falling into the fact it's like i've seen this plot before because this new prince is going to be arranged to marry the daughter of this leader this dictator and he doesn't want to and he falls in love with someone else seems pretty familiar i don't want to do that thing where you compare it to the original movie and it falls short but it's hard it's hard to not do that when this movie makes a conscious effort to take some of the same beats plot-wise anyway the most important thing is this is a comedy most important thing in a comedy is to be funny make me laugh the movie didn't really make me laugh and yeah granted comedy's different now you look at the original coming to america here i go i'm comparing again but if you look at it a lot of the comedy was wrapped up in the absurdity of the wealth of this family this royalty when they're at the airport and they're dressed clearly like royalty and eddie murphy's like remember we have to blend in in our city hall's like i won't say a thing they're just they look everyone's turning like who's the royalty it relied on a joke and a beat for the audience to process take it in and laugh nowadays what i see a lot in comedy and in coming to america too it's joke and then quippy comeback joke or reference and there you go it's like the characters are trying to make the characters in the movie laugh not the audience but it's important to include the audience in that and that's the problem because the original coming to america i laugh in it's funny to me coming to america too didn't laugh it's like comedies and movies in general let's face it they think you're dumb you know like hollywood thinks people are stupid but i just can't stand it when jokes are so on the nose explained like there's one scenario it's not really a joke it's actually a pretty relevant phrase eddie murphy's character he's king now so he starts feeling the weight of these decisions you know it's really tough for him and the phrase heavy is the head that wears the crown is thrown out as heavy as the head that wears the crown heavy lies the crown however you want to say it it's a good phrase you know but we know what it means just from the phrase it's like oh it's not talking about the weight of the crown maybe that limbic response is to see it that way and you're like oh no it's talking about the responsibility we just we know that because the phrase is layered enough and accessible enough for us to know that this movie explains it you know it's like oh heavy's the head that wears the crown i'm starting to realize that more and more yeah it's not just the weight of the crown just the responsibility that comes with it it's like thanks for explaining it because we're dumb it's just one example but when i saw that i was like okay that's the last draw and that's my example i'm going to throw into here and like you know creepy preacher guy creepy preacher guy who is in the first coming to america's character is back because you know sequel but they call him the sexist preacher i think three different times in here i mean granted he is the creepy sexist preacher we knew that from the first movie he was one of those guys oh i got the calling he's like no you didn't you're just trying to get some of that great christian ass that's your thing that's what you're doing we all knew he was a creepy televangelist guy the audience can get there by themselves but no they have to call him the sexist preacher like oh the guy's sexy did you get that audience because he is this is my point of saying all of this is that subtlety and nuance makes comedy but subtlety and nuance isn't in comedy anymore and i think the reason is because if you don't say that like if you don't blatantly call the creepy sexist preacher guy a sexist preacher then somehow some corner of twitter is gonna be like oh they didn't call him out on it in the movie so obviously they're advocating for it that's problematic and then all right start the canceling so that's why you have to just explain all your jokes in movies otherwise people are gonna get the wrong idea and that's why comedy is what's the word dying anyhow coming to america too it's a comedy and i didn't really laugh at it this movie's aware of it though it knows what it is because they even make the joke in this movie it's a very meta moment where they talk about sequels to 30 year old movies that no one asked for that aren't good but in the end it doesn't matter because i'm not gonna remember this movie in t minus one day yep already forgot it's just like the purity and heart of the original it's your basic sequel to a 30 year old movie this is how it usually goes down all right so coming to america have you seen it what did you think about it whatever you thought comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more 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