'Coming 2 America' Director Defends Eddie Murphy Sequel's PG-13 Rating

hollywoodreporter.com:

Coming to America fans who have been longing for a sequel to the Eddie Murphy-Arsenio Hall classic may have been surprised to learn that the comedy 33 years in the making would be rated PG-13.

The original was rated R. However, director Craig Brewer told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday that Amazon Prime Video'sComing 2 Americawill have just as much bite as the original — just not the nudity and peppered F-bombs. "If an R-rated movie would work then we would do an R-rated movie,"Brewer told WSJ. "I think we still have a really hilarious movie and we do push the boundaries on a PG-13 movie here and there.