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Movies that feel likeComing 2 America (2021)

Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wish to groom this son as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America once again.

If you loved Coming 2 America, the closest films we have are Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) and My Mom Is a Character 3 (2019). All three share Coming 2 America's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 49% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Craig Brewerwittyplayful
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Starz

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
2016 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 64%★ 5.7comedyNetflixStarz

Witty comedy in both cases

A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

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My Mom Is a Character 3
2019 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 7.1comedy

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.

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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

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I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
★ 7comedy

Both work the same play

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.

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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
★ 6.9comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

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Daddy's Home 2
2017 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 20%★ 6.1comedy

Both are comedy through and through

Father and stepfather Dusty and Brad join forces to make Christmastime perfect for the children. Their newfound partnership soon gets put to the test when Dusty's old-school, macho dad and Brad's gentle father arrive to turn the holiday upside down. After a sudden change in plans, the four men decide to take the kids to a luxury resort for a fun-filled getaway that turns into a hilarious and chaotic adventure.

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No manches, Frida
2016 · dir. Nacho G. Velilla
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy

Comedy approached the same way

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

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Welcome to the North
2012 · dir. Luca Miniero
★ 5.4comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

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Till Luck Do Us Part 2
2013 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 4.9comedy

Both play comedy straight

After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
★ 5.8comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 5.7comedy

Comedy in the same key

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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