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My guess is this:

Akeem shoots up one of the servant girls. She gets pregnant right before his arranged marriage to the other one, which he turns down and goes to America to find who would eventually be Lisa McDowell. While Akeem's in Queens, the servant girl finds out she's pregnant...and so does King Joffey.

To protect Akeem's rep and his new marriage upon coming back, Joffey 'banishes' the servant girl to Queens, and sets them up to be taken care of, with the disclosure that they never reveal that Akeem is the father if he doesn't have children with Lisa. They don't (maybe they have a girl instead) of course, which leads us to this. It sounds like Joffey told Akeem this in some sort of deathbed confession, so that's very feasible.

This would have a uneasy tension in the movie between Akeem and Lisa of course, which could make for interesting scenes.
 
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My guess is this:

Akeem shoots up one of the servant girls. She gets pregnant right before his arranged marriage to the other one, which he turns down and goes to America to find who would eventually be Lisa McDowell. While Akeem's in Queens, the servant girl finds out she's pregnant...and so does King Joffey.

To protect Akeem's rep and his new marriage upon coming back, Joffey 'banishes' the servant girl to Queens, and sets them up to be taken care of, with the disclosure that they never reveal that Akeem is the father if he doesn't have children with Lisa. They don't (maybe they have a girl instead) of course, which leads us to this. It sounds like Joffey told Akeem this in some sort of deathbed confession, so that's very feasible.

This would have a uneasy tension in the movie between Akeem and Lisa of course, which could make for interesting scenes.

Well the issue is,why would they specifically send the African servant/bather to Queens?

My guess is either it's Lisa's and his kid and she left him and didn't tell him,he knocked up some rando off cam in the first movie,or it's really Semi's baby from when he told women he was the prince.

But I wonder wusup with Lisa,why the king knows about this son,but never told,and does every prince need a son first to be king in Zamunda?

And also if those are the rules who becomes the king if the prince doesn't have a son?

I just noticed that Lisa is in the trailer.They either got no kids or mad daughters
 
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Its PG13. Man boooooooo!
 
So his sons name is Lavelle and his moms is Leslie Jones? Akeem smashed Leslie Jones? Yuck!
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Its PG13. Man boooooooo!

Was the original rated R?
 
Critics and public views stated the same thing about the original film when it get released in 1986.

Nobody besides people abroad (especially in the Francophonie) wasn't a fan of Eddie Murphy raceswapping a classic French Harlequin romance novel into a (first of a long series of many) comedic satire about the flaws of black culture as a whole-- notably in this case, mostly about African American society, colourism, anti-African regionalism/racism against other black populations and the fledgling "strong, independant single black woman" crisis in the 1980s, the counterproductivity of black Christianity and Jheri curls rather than arranged marriages in African societies which was the main factor behind why the protagonist married an American woman in spite their both cultural and class differences.

The film became a popular classic homeland but years later, among younger viewers exposed to this idea of a regal African nation and long dipped into Eddie Murphy's comedic range. For a lot of people, 'Coming To America' has basically the same inspiring appeal than the movie 'Black Panther' .
These were from peoole who were big fans of the first, not professional critics. Their biggest gripe was it just wasn't funny at all.
 
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