FILM AND TELEVISION
‘Coming 2 America’ Isn’t Great, But it’s Definitely Awesome
The classic original is well represented here
4 min readMar 6, 2021
There’s a moment early in Coming 2 America in which Arsenio Hall’s character, Semmi explains how Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem unwittingly impregnated a “morally bereft woman” over 30 years ago.