OT: Coming 2 America

[Requiem For A Dawg]

I preface this thread by saying Coming To America is by far my favorite comedy of all time.

With that being said...

Wow... what a letdown. Don’t watch if you haven’t already. I wasn’t expecting much, but it’s really bad.

I smiled a few times because of some nostalgic cameos, but I don’t think I laughed once. Writing was bad and the storyline was boring.

 

[Xenomorph]

Comedies and horror share one thing in common.. they’re infinitely better when watched in a crowded theatre.

 

[mcdawg22]

The barber scene was funny, that’s about it. I don’t know why they went PG-13. They didn’t need to worry about Box Office.

 

[047Dog]

I too thought it was terrible. I was ready to turn it off halfway thru. The last 10 minutes were ok and made me chuckle just because of the entertainment on the stage. As a whole tho it was garbage.

 

[qball.sixpack]

I just turned it off 30 minutes in. Such a let down. Terrible.

 

[DAWG61]

Have any comedy sequels lived up to the original or even come close when there's decades in between them? I didn't even watch Dumb and Dumber 2 it'd been so long. Same rule applies for this one for me.

 

[maroonmania]

I just turned it off 30 minutes in. Such a let down. Terrible.

Not even sure my wife and I got that far with it. We both looked at each other like, this is stupid, and moved on to other things. May eventually go back and finish but not impressed. And we both thought the original was entertaining.

 

[cowbell88]

We watched it, but I spent last hour playing on phone while it was on.

 

[drummerdawg]

Have any comedy sequels lived up to the original or even come close when there's decades in between them? I didn't even watch Dumb and Dumber 2 it'd been so long. Same rule applies for this one for me.

Dumb and Dumber 2 is one of the exceptions. It was hilarious

 

[mstateglfr]

Have any comedy sequels lived up to the original or even come close when there's decades in between them? I didn't even watch Dumb and Dumber 2 it'd been so long. Same rule applies for this one for me.

2nd American Pie was great, at least to my early 20s self.

CHRISTMAS vacation was 17ing hilarious. AP spy who snagged me was just as good as the first. And 22 jump street lkved up to the first in funny.
There are a lot more.. tough past is- comedy to one person is a bore to another person.

 

[DAWG61]

Agree those are all good but they didn't wait two decades before making the next ones. Just very rare a comedy sequel is close to as good as the first when they wait so long.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Are you sure you didn’t just watch the original twice?

 

[Drebin]

My expectations were already lowered going into it. There were times it really dragged. Leslie Jones was funny and the guy who plays Akeem's son is pretty talented. Beyond that, it's pretty forgettable.

 

[fedxdog]

The writer, David Sheffield is a Mississippian and married a high school classmate of mine and lives on a farm near Laurel...too bad, but it is rotten tomatoes.
He wrote most of Eddie Murphy's hits and started on SNL.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

My expectations were already lowered going into it. There were times it really dragged. Leslie Jones was funny and the guy who plays Akeem's son is pretty talented. Beyond that, it's pretty forgettable.

Barbershop was the good parts to me. Other than that it was like a Sandler movie on Netflix