Comment on Coming 2 America Has Its Modest Charms, But It’s Mostly a Reminder of How Great Its Predecessor Is

Coming 2 America Has Its Modest Charms, But It’s Mostly a Reminder of How Great Its Predecessor Is

Before Black Panther’s mythical homeland of Wakanda had ever been committed to film, there was Zamunda, the similarly captivating made-up nation in John Landis’ 1988 Coming to America. Like Wakanda, the Zamunda of Coming to America is a country of great beauty, riches and achievement. And it has its own prince in Eddie Murphy’s Akeem, a young man who’s destined to wed a woman chosen for him by his parents—played with vibrating regality by James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair—in preparation for his ascent to the throne.

 

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