Coming to America (1988)

Coming to America

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In 1988, Murphy was so dominant he must have felt he needed to take on multiple roles just to keep life interesting. Wrong, but movie great.

Coming to America

What’s more:

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It’s sort of a vanity piece, as Eddie & Arsenio play all sorts of roles with increasingly ridiculous makeup. That’s their right, of course, but most of the characters are really just distracting and stupid. (Except for Randy “Sexual Chocolate” Watson, of course.)

It’s an 80’s John Landis movie, through and through. Nothing wrong with that. It’s funny as hell.

Coming to America

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Bechdel Test:

FAIL