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The director is ... rather distracted; John Landis seems to be browsing through the scenes rather than gobbling them down.
Starts on a bathroom joke, quickly followed by a gag about private parts, then wanders in search of something equally original for Eddie Murphy to do for another couple of hours.
A screenplay that seems to have escaped its doctors before it was entirely well.
The main pleasure in America comes in the romancing of prince and pauper. But the comedy is a mere handmaiden.
In Landis' hands, the film doesn't live up to even the meagerest of expectations.
Silly, curse-happy '80s Eddie Murphy vehicle.
Murphy gives his sweetest, most touching, and most genuinely likable performance to date, playing a character who embraces society instead of holding it in contempt.
The winning combination of Landis and Murphy redeems the very predictable storyline, which is chock-full of snappy one-liners and impressive caricatures by Murphy and Hall.
very funny and shows Eddie Murphy in his prime
Coming to America was re-released on DVD as part of Paramount's "I love the '80s" collection.
Not only a great comedic effort but Eddie Murphy's best romantic film as well.
[Landis] takes a very specific joy in the act of moviemaking and calls attention to it, placing it at a level above the romantic story.
so brilliant, it almost makes up for The Golden Child.
Superb comic timing, a satirical edge, and Murphy's extraordinary gift for mimicry lift it right out of the trough of mediocrity to which it is all but consigned by its utterly predictable storyline.
Eddie Murphy does everything in this movie successfully, which was probably a bad idea because it made him think that he could write and direct Harlem Nights...
Murphy's last enjoyable film before a long slump
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