{"id":229694,"date":"2021-03-16T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=229694"},"modified":"2021-03-16T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:30:57","slug":"coming-2-america-a-cult-classic-ruined-by-progressive-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coming-2-america-a-cult-classic-ruined-by-progressive-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming 2 America: A Cult Classic Ruined By Progressive Wokeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoming-2-america-a-cult-classic-ruined-by-progressive-wokeness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=229694&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1301.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Coming 2 America, <\/i>the sequel to the 1988 cult classic starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem, an affluent monarch of the fictitious African kingdom of Zamunda, packs little more than a present-day batch of progressive platitudes, seasoned with perfunctory attempts to woo audiences with nostalgic odes to the original film.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The biggest fault of <i>Coming 2 America <\/i>is that it feels as if the idea to make the sequel was first decided upon, and only later was a plot haphazardly stitched together to justify its existence. Lazily regurgitating a slew of scenes and dialogue from the original makes the sequel, released 33 years after the original, strikingly gratuitous.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We learn that in the original <i>Coming to America, <\/i>Prince Akeem was apparently <i>drugged and date raped<\/i>. Not only is Eddie Murphy being drugged and raped passable as a comedic plot point by progressive standards, but it is the entire raison d\u2019\u00eatre of this film.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Attempting to further expand the made-up world of Zamunda, the sequel introduces a neighboring state \u2014 literally named Nexdoria \u2014 a dictatorship which, while plagued with poverty, somehow musters the military might to force the opulent Prince Akeem into a quandary. He must marry off his male heir to the daughter of the junta\u2019s general, Izzi (Wesley Snipes.) And so, Akeem, in need of a progeny, must travel back to America, and find his bastard child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite the film\u2019s title, Akeem\u2019s journey back to America is short lived; the bulk of the film takes place in Zamunda, and revolves around the fabled monarchy\u2019s political affairs, as Akeem prepares his newfound son for marriage into the neighboring clan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The original <i>Coming to America <\/i>from 1988, was hilariously premised on the idea of an exuberantly wealthy prince attempting to fit in and live modestly amongst the financially feeble peons of Queens, New York. It was a clash of culture and economic class, told through the untainted lens of the 1980s. Capable of evoking a raunchy, yet organic humor that had not yet been adulterated by the nauseating fume of present day wokeness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In <i>Coming 2 America, <\/i>the jokes lack any semblance of subtly and are never just allowed to linger unexplained. <i>Every <\/i>punchline<i> <\/i>is mundanely clarified. In one scene, Prince Akeem\u2019s rapist, Mary Junson (played adequately by Leslie Jones, while missing the&nbsp;opportunity to expand Cardi B\u2019s acting portfolio), after boasting of her copious sexual conquests, is introduced as \u201cMary, like the virgin.\u201d The characters in the back then proceed to unnecessarily explain the blatant sarcasm, \u201cVirgin? Not our Mary. She ain\u2019t no virgin.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The script feels as if it was written by an Eddie Murphy who had been held hostage by the \u201cWoke Police\u201d and forced to perform with doggedly progressive platitudes expressed in every scene. This is even worse for Murphy, given that the entire reason this movie exists is that his character was apparently already <i>drugged and raped.<\/i> Whereas the original film had no obvious connections to real life events or politics, the present-day progressivism that permeates Hollywood shines through such trite material as:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A joke about Mitt Romney? Check!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>\u201cAin\u2019t nobody gonna hire you over these Mitt Romney looking\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A completely random appraisal and adulation of Barack Obama? Check!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>\u201cAmerica has certainly changed since our last visit, your black president finally united this great country.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A completely random reference to the 2017 Charlottesville \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally that nobody outside the Twittersphere remembers anymore? You guessed it!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>\u201cYeah but it\u2019s all going to die now. Nazis are back, but now they dress like the Best Buy Geek Squad and they want to kill people.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Where the first film was inventive and brimming with such quotable lines as, \u201cFreeze, you diseased rhinoceros pizzle.\u201d Or, \u201cAmerica is such a vast land. Where will you go? New York, or Los Angeles,\u201d <i>Coming 2 America <\/i>feels entirely forced and uncomfortable, barely able to cause a chuckle, let alone a genuine laugh. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In another scene, Prince Akeem\u2019s son, Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler) \u2014 the bastard child conceived after Akeem\u2019s rape \u2014&nbsp;is at a job interview. His uncle advises him, \u201cdon\u2019t use white voice,\u201d as Lavelle walks into the meeting, making way for a painfully dragged out scene, tailored to score political points with progressive critics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a display of such glaringly cartoonish racism which could only be believed to exist in the aloof echo chambers of Tinseltown, Lavelle and the interviewer spar in racial stereotypes. The interviewer candidly asks, \u201cit says here you didn\u2019t graduate college\u2026 was your mom addicted to drugs\u2026 was your pops in the picture?\u201d And went on to cite Neil DeGrasse Tyson, referring to the African American astrophysicist to Lavelle as \u201cyour guy.\u201d The interviewer than conceded to his own typecasts, predictably having attended a preppy boarding school, having spent time in rehab, and having donned blackface.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The original <i>Coming to America <\/i>was a film made in a different era. It was a culture still capable of understanding humor and taking a joke. Its sequel, <i>Coming 2 America <\/i>bears none of that. Worse, it\u2019s a humorless film, born of a humorless culture, fit only for a humorless era.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Follow Harry Khachatrian on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harry1T6\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming 2 America, the sequel to the 1988 cult classic starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem, an affluent monarch of the fictitious African kingdom of Zamunda, packs little more than &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310592,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1301.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Coming 2 America: A Cult Classic Ruined By Progressive Wokeness","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1301.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Coming 2 America: A Cult Classic Ruined By Progressive Wokeness","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}