Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

"The Klumps" is just as funny as the first Nutty Professor. One aspect of the movie I enjoyed was that Eddie Murphy broadened his portrayal of the Klump family (Which, if you're not aware, every family member except the boy are Murphy. His talent is unbelievable.) and gave them larger roles in the sequel. It's a lot dirtier than the first film. We learn a heck of a lot more about Granny. The nudity scene was hilarious. The plot is about the professor, who is about to get married but his bad self, Buddy Love, is acting up. When Buddy escapes, there are two professors running lose and the professor's got himself a problem. It has many hilarious moments, but is different than the original as it's unrated and has some naughty but absolutely hilarious moments.However, the movie isn't 100% perfect. Where it faulters is in terms of a decent story-line. It felt like a bit of a re-trip to the first movie with a similar plot. The film, though, is hilarious and will have you repeating lines for days after it, but my only recommendation is that you see it twice. The first time round, you are getting to grips with the story-line, and I have to admit, because I didn't catch all the jokes, I didn't find it that funny. But when you go back a second time, as you know the basic story-line (which is there - despite what I said earlier), you can listen in for the jokes, as they are quite hard to catch sometimes. Altogether, "Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps" is very good - in fact it is one of the best sequels that I have seen.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps (2000): Dir: Peter Segal / Cast: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, Wanda Sykes: Sequel with ideas and innovation that, despite its efforts, never involves viewers. It regards unity or family starring Eddie Murphy who returns as professor Sherman Klump. Janet Jackson is introduced as his fiancé but a gene of egotistical Buddy Love still exists thus preventing Sherman from having total control. Plot regards a youth formula that Buddy wishes to obtain. They have tested it successfully on a dog but a hair drifts into it thus leaving Buddy contracting symptoms. Excellent makeup with a giant hamster poising an attack against police. Directed by Peter Segal who has directed comedy sequels before with the hilarious The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. Murphy carries the film conveying Sherman and Buddy on screen at once. He also portrays members of the Klump family but the youthful finale lacks emotional payoff. Jackson is no Jada Pinkett. In fact, one could guess that Pinkett suspected that this would not live up to the first film. Larry Miller and John Ales reprise their roles as dean and student associate but they are merely appearances. Special effects are creative and inventive but the youth formula needs explanation that prevents this film from becoming involving and merely settling for big budget chaos. Score: 4 ½ / 10

The Nutty Professor remake allowed Eddie Murphy to target the family audience market and was a big box office success as well.With a revitalised Murphy going family friendly, a sequel was a given and this time the fat suit is in overdrive as Murphy plays eight roles.This time Sherman is convinced that Buddy is inside him and trying to take over his personality, at the same time he has found a formula to make people young and found love with a fellow professor (Janet Jackson). His efforts to extract Buddy from his DNA results in Buddy coming to life and going after the fountain of youth formula. There is a side effect that the extraction has made Sherman go stupid.There is a mixture of physical and lowbrow comedy with some sexual innuendos. This is Murphy's film though as he plays the various members of the Klumps both male and female as well as Buddy Love.Only Larry Miller can keep up with Murphy with the comedy as the slimy college Dean who gets attacked by a giant hamster.However the film is uneven, some of it feels like long sketches and some of the scenes seemed to be rehashed from the first film such as the dinner table scene.

This is hard to watch, hard to finish, and hard to remember. Too far is a word this movie capably embodies. Review the number of characters Eddie Murphy plays : Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Granny Klump, Mama Klump, Papa Klump, Young Papa Klump, Ernie Klump, and Lance Perkinscan. WAW, yet needless to worn you that too far can be too wrong sometimes. In this manner, they went so far with the filthy material to an extent turns the movie into a docudrama about the human body's middle, and its various secretions, or simply one of the most emetic movies ever made ! Mainly the idea is good "The Fountain of Youth", however the script just wanted to play dirty, with nothing but nauseating sex and endless farts in its mind. Movies such as (John Waters)'s, since the start of the 1970s, used to be described as transgressing with historically awful scenes, frankly nasty elements, done in mostly independent production. Mainstream Hollywood comedies, since the end of the 1990s, seem to be feeding on none other than (Waters)'s inspirations. For instance the sexual humor, that this movie savors excessively, is beyond horrible. Just remember an anal sex between a man and a huge hamster, and an oral sex between 80 year old granny and her grandson's alter ego. So the historically awful scenes, the frankly nasty elements,.. are now being done with big budgets, famous stars, and sold as lovable time. See how we live an age where the major studios transgress us !This movie is actually a milestone in the fart comedy (the Hollywood comedy once !). Among the many similar comedies nowadays this one is a godfather and a record. Makes you think deeply; had decency become so old-fashioned? Or had Hollywood become really bankrupt and incredibly dirty in the same time?Look how many family movies Murphy had to make right after it : Shrek (2001), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Daddy Day Care (2003), The Haunted Mansion (2003), Shrek 2 (2004), and Imagine That (2009). I can't precisely decide; was that a purgation? Or was it a way to woo his raising kids, trying to persuade them that he's a good movie star or nice person? The thing that I know for sure is that – unfortunately – old habits die hard, because in no time he went, or went back, to make Norbit (2007) !!Still there is a rare angle in it. Remember the scene in which the hamster excretes, rather explodes with excrements, in the face of many dressy people at the press conference? While being one of the top nightmarish moments I have experienced with movies, not believing till now that it had been verily made, I see that it seduces brilliantly a dark place in every one of us, and even satisfies it. Sometimes we hate our world so much; hypocrisy, stupidity, corruption.. whatever the reason why, at that point we want to do what the hamster did, everyone with their hated persons who deserve such a fate best (a machine gun full of… you know what !). Ahhh, how fair am I to admit that this movie had something that could sound like "good" after all !At any rate I detest (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps). It's poor, unfunny, and too smelly to stand. It has a talent only in bringing up a shockingly ugly thing every minute, to top it by yet another one in the next minute; which is not my thing at all ! My theory is that you have to be hating the world so much to love this movie altogether. Otherwise, you might hate its makers, wishing them the fate of the dressy people in the press conference moment ! P.S : I loved Hollywood's sneering at this piece of work in Tropic Thunder (2008). Parodying it as "The Fatties: Fart Two" made me feel that lastly I'm not alone in this universe, and that Hollywood does have a conscience, well.. some sort of it anyway !