Movie review: Eddie and Arsenio come back '2 America,' and they're a welcome sight

The 1980s and 1990s were Eddie Murphy's time to shine. His three-year run on "SNL" was the jumping-off point that morphed into a movie career that kicked off with "48 Hrs.," "Trading Places," and "Beverly Hills Cop." There followed a mix of sequels, some hits, some misses, the unexpected nuttiness of the "Shrek" films," and a terrific recent "comeback" of sorts with "Dolemite Is My Name."

But it was "Coming to America," in 1988, featuring Murphy as Akeem, the Prince of Zamunda, who journeys to Queens to find a wife, and encounters love along the way, that remains among his most popular films, in which he additionally played, under a wealth of makeup, three other characters, including a white Jewish man.

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