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Written by James M. Tate / 12/18/2020 / No comments / 2021 , arsenio hall , comedy , eddie murphy , john amos , new , sequel , shari headley

EDDIE MURPHY 'COMING 2 AMERICA' (BACKPOSTED FROM 3/5/2021)

2021, arsenio hall, comedy, eddie murphy, john amos, new, sequel, shari headley

EDDIE MURPHY 'COMING 2 AMERICA' (BACKPOSTED FROM 3/5/2021)

COMING 2 AMERICA Year: 2021 Rating: *1/2 The original COMING TO AMERICA was no accident. It took experienced filmmaker John Landis to pull o...

Written by James M. Tate / 6/30/2018 / No comments / action , adventure , college , comedy , disney , jan-michael vincent , john amos , seventies , sport , tim conway

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT IS DISNEY'S WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original Lobby Card Autographed by Jan-Michael Vincent YEAR: 1973</u></td></tr>
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John Amos and Tim Conway, the most strangely-cast comedic duo in 
history, are coaches at a loser junior college full of extremely inept 
athletes. They take a trip to Africa (where Amos's grandparents came 
from) and find the greatest athlete in the world... and wouldn't ya know, he's white!<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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young, ripped Jan-Michael Vincent 
plays Nanu, a Tarzan clone who Amos and Conway trick into returning to 
the States to gain them a reputation as 
awesome coaches.  The best scenes in this adventurous, parody-pulpy first act occurs as Vincent 
shows his home-turf skills, from triumphantly racing Cheetahs upon gloriously horrible real projection effects (hell, even Hitchcock's VistaVision epics suffered those) to the usual tree-swinging frolic... <br>
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There's
 really no strong villain like most Disney films, just a selfish 
businessmen (with his snotty son) and an antagonistic witch doctor (Roscoe Lee Browne), introduced in the Africa 
sequence, who causes Vincent's Nanu, while he, via montage, exceeds at every sport on all the college's teams until (like in every 
Disney flick about special powers) losing his abilities for a while, which, dragging about seven-minutes too long, grinds on 
the nerves as wrongly first-billed Tim Conway has only one solo scene, being
 voodoo-shrunk to the size of an insect and has to escape from a martini glass: But mostly this ATHLETE centers on Amos, Vincent, a wide-eyed, somewhat plain-Jane ingenue, and a lovable tiger 
in this just-above-average Disney outing.  </div>

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JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT IS DISNEY'S WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE

Original Lobby Card Autographed by Jan-Michael Vincent YEAR: 1973 John Amos and Tim Conway, the most strangely-cast comedic duo in hist...

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT IS 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE'

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A young ripped Jan-Michael Vincent plays Nanu, a monotone-speaking Tarzan who Amos and Conway trick into returning to the States to monopolize the school's teams... and gain them a reputation as awesome coaches...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

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JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT IS 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE'

year: 1973 cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Tim Conway rating: ***1/2 John Amos and Tim Conway, the most strangely cast comedic duo in...

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