Coming to America

"Coming To America remains [Murphy's] most personal work and a great argument that a movie can be decent and wholesome despite having enough profanity to make Bill Cosby lose sleep."

"This light romantic comedy represents a change of pace for the phenomenally successful Murphy. Here he plays a polite, pampered, and fabulously wealthy African prince who comes to America in search of true love. Although the fairy-tale script is as old as the motion picture industry"

"The main pleasure in America comes in the romancing of prince and pauper. But the comedy is a mere handmaiden."

"Writers David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein's mushier-than-white-bread script milks only the most obvious laughs from the outlandish situation — what we get is homogenized Eddie Murphy, drained of his kinetic comic charm and smiling sass."

"Motormouth Murphy is, of course, perfectly cast as the prince, whilst Arsenio Hall does a superb job as his wing-man and James Earl Jones brings some meat to the jilted father role. These three rescue the plot from it's tiresomely predictable premises..."