Perhaps this best comedy with Eddie Murphy. He has a rather ambiguous acting career, there were also successful pictures, but still there were far more unsuccessful ones. His best roles fell on the 80s, after which he became famous throughout the world. "Coming to America" ​​is one of the few so-called sitcoms, when it was not necessary for someone to build faces (hello to Jim Kerry), joke on subjects below the belt to make the audience laugh, and the situations in which the characters turn out make you smile not once or twice.
This picture strongly resembles another remarkable comedy of the 80s - "Twins", Schwarzenegger, who also came to America for the first time, played a similar role to Murphy, who also was not averse to sentimentality, naivety, full good nature to all those around him, a sense of justice , that is, all those qualities that are so lacking thoroughly saturated with capitalism in America, where everything is around the so-called consumer society, whose main goal of life is the process of making money. On the example of Akim, the prince of the invented African state of Zamunda, the director wants to show that real feelings and love can not be bought for any money, they need to be achieved through their actions, sincerity and naturalness. Here, negative qualities such as duplicity are blamed on the example of Cleo McDowell, played by an excellent actor John Amos. In general, it turned out a kind of "satire in comedy" for typical human vices. I liked the scenes in the barber shop, very funny dialogues turned out, and surprisingly, without the typical black humor of sorts. This comedy is also remarkable for the fact that Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall acted as several characters at once, although some of them were only in episodes, but it was fun.