Fuck You Too!

"Coming to America" really showcases John Landis and Eddie Murphy (hell, even Arsenio Hall) at the top of their games. Caught it on one of the channels recently and I think it holds up fairly well, all things considered.

It also eerily foreshadows Murphy's grim addiction to hiding beneath layers of Rick Baker prosthetics, but to each his own.

CTA is filled with nudge-to-the-audience gags, but here are a few that struck me this time through...

Fun CTA Trivia!!!
Years before triumphantly costarring with Murphy in NORBIT, Cuba Gooding Jr. played the wordless role of "Boy Getting Haircut" in CTA.

Sam Jackson makes a cameo robbing McDowell's. (Incidentally, marking the last time in film history that Samuel L. Jackson, Arsenio Hall, Louie Anderson, Eriq La Salle and Eddie Murphy would ever be in a scene together.)

One of the men in the barbershop refers to Murphy's Akeem as "Kunta Kinte"—a reference to an African slave character in the '80s miniseries "Roots". CTA costar John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte in that series!!!

Some Orozco kid is listed as the writer for a "Coming to America" movie that IMDB says is coming out in 2009.