Coming to America 1988 123movies

Watch: Coming to America 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Immersed in luxury and riches, courteous Prince Akeem, the refined heir apparent to Africa’s prosperous kingdom of Zamunda, summons up the courage to reject an arranged marriage proposal on his twenty-first birthday. As a result, bent on finding true love, the young blue blood finds himself in the strange urban jungle of New York City’s Queens. Now, to mask his regal descent, Akeem, and his trusted valet, Semmi, have to pose as humble exchange students, doing their best to mingle with their neighbours. But, more than anything in the world, the noble bachelor yearns to be loved for who he is, and not for his title. Is Prince Akeem destined to find his soulmate in America’s bustling Big Apple?.
Plot: An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess… and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 208,494
	73% | RottenTomatoes
	47/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3682 Popularity: 25.288 | TMDB

Reviews:

Hasn’t aged flawlessly, made some stylistic decisions that probably would have come across as weird even at the time, and not the sort of thing (American comedy) that typically appeals to me. But I can still absolutely see why _Coming to America_ is remembered as fondly as it is. I liked it by and large more than the most similar offerings of today.

_Final rating:★★½ – Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.

A very good approach to a “Pauper and Prince” trope mix with a culture shock trope. The excellent cast involved really takes it a long way with good writing to help it along.

It’s admittedly not a very original story structure, so while it is not all that refreshingly unpredictable, but it’s good to see a foreign royalty in an American setting, and an African one at that.

I do think this is consistently funny and has maintained over 30 years, so definitely check this out if you haven’t.

This is one good Eddie Murphy movie
This movie is famous because of the number of characters that Eddie Murphy and Asinio Hall manage to play. It is not that this is something new, but rather the make up is so well done that you cannot even recognise them. One character that Murphy plays is in fact white, and when I suggested to my friend that this was Murphy, his reply was – it can’t be, he’s white! The basic plot is simple. Murphy is Adeeb, the heir to the throne of an obscenely rich African country and he is going to be married to a woman whom he had not known until she was presented to him on his 21st birthday. He has had everything done for him since he was a kid and is getting sick of it. When he learns that his wife to be’s opinion is tailored so that everything he likes, she likes, he gets fed up and decides to go on a trip. His father thinks that it is to sow his wild oats, but he wants to find a wife. So he takes his servant, and goes to Queens in New York because, logically thinking, that is where he is going to find his queen. Moreso, he wants to live like a pauper and hires the grungiest flat available and gets a job as a floor mopper at McDowells, a restaurant that is very similar to a certain other restaurant which shall remain unnamed so as to protect me for defamation.

The plot and themes aren’t deep, but that is not why I watch these movies. I watch them because Murphy has a cool sense of humour. He plays Adeeb, a naive African prince really well, and he plays the other characters even better. The barber shop scene is the highlight of this character swapping, even though he also plays the lead singer of a band called Sexual Chocolate.

The movie is very formulaic with the beautiful woman that Adeeb loves and the horrid, slimy boyfriend. In the end, as can be expected, she decides to marry him. This is not what I am interested in, but rather the spice that Murphy adds to his movie. Also the tie-in with Trading Places is also quite cool.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min)
Budget 39000000
Revenue 288752301
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director John Landis
Writer Eddie Murphy, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein
Actors Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 5 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 125T 5247, 400T 5294, 400T 5295, 250D 5297)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2020 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm