Some good behind the scenes stories on the making of Coming to America. The director was definitely a bit arrogant, but otherwise relevant and interesting interviews.
2 Reviews
Fights and Laughs
Calicodreamin14 October 2021
Too Zany & Smug but Okay
TheFearmakers8 April 2023
Not bad, you learn a lot about the movie itself and what led up to it... the SNL writers that made Eddie Murphy ignite on TV, the director who helped shape his movie career, and then Eddie becoming the biggest star on the planet for Coming to America...
The problem with this episode (and every one on this series) is it feels, well, episodic instead of a nice tight documentary on an iconic film...
Plus there are way too many zany and cute moments that documentaries tend to do nowadays... Taking away from whatever interesting memory that, say, Landis would have without all the frilly frills i.e. If he says a certain word or references something out of pop culture, they'll pop up the image of that thing and then cut back to Landis giving a shocked expression, even though WE KNOW he didn't see whatever the filmmakers added...
All feeling straight from a cheap YouTube channel, effects that become dizzying, and, in the end there are so many distractions between interviews you never find out about the potentially intriguing thing they initially brought up, like, for example, Landis and Murphy's on-set fight...
Plus, there's way too much Louie Anderson. He has a cameo in the movie and they interview him like he's a co-star...
The problem with this episode (and every one on this series) is it feels, well, episodic instead of a nice tight documentary on an iconic film...
Plus there are way too many zany and cute moments that documentaries tend to do nowadays... Taking away from whatever interesting memory that, say, Landis would have without all the frilly frills i.e. If he says a certain word or references something out of pop culture, they'll pop up the image of that thing and then cut back to Landis giving a shocked expression, even though WE KNOW he didn't see whatever the filmmakers added...
All feeling straight from a cheap YouTube channel, effects that become dizzying, and, in the end there are so many distractions between interviews you never find out about the potentially intriguing thing they initially brought up, like, for example, Landis and Murphy's on-set fight...
Plus, there's way too much Louie Anderson. He has a cameo in the movie and they interview him like he's a co-star...
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