Rating: * * * out of * * * *
Rated PG-13: language, crude/sexual humor.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy.
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Directed by: Peter Segal
In 1996 the world was introduced to a new version of the classic Jerry Lewis film "The Nutty Professor", the movie was a huge hit (almost $130m domestically) and continued Eddie Murphy's big hits. The movie was very good, very funny and quite sweet. When I first heard there was going to be a sequel I was a bit iffy on it, wondering how they would make a sequel to it. So we waited four long years to get a sequel to the beloved comedy, and it is here, even though it isn't as good as the original, and not many sequels are, its still a great way to contiune a great comedy series.
This time around Sherman Klump is happy, its a couple years later from the first film, and he has a new girlfriend, Denise Gains (played quite well by Janet Jackson). But the other side of Sherman, Buddy Love is bothering him, he keeps hearing him inside of him, he keeps saying and doing stuff Buddy would do, Sherman decides to get the strand of DNA that is inside of him that contains Buddy Love out, but with some distrous results, Buddy Love becomes his own seperate person, and goes off to try to make Sherman a dumb person. Because since Sherman put Buddy out of his blood stream, he lost an important part of himself, and is never going to be the same unless he has Buddy Love back inside of him.
The film has a side plot on it, but I will let you guys watch that yourself, so as not to spoil anything of the movie. This movie although Sherman is a big part of the film, this time his family is the main characters as well, providing alot of information about his family that in the first we really didn't get to know. We get to know the Klumps more than before, and know that they are more than just an overweight, farting family. They are sweet people who have troubles just like Sherman does, and at times we really feel for them. Eddie Murphy does a fantastic job of playing all these characters, in all he does six different characters and does them all justice.
Janet Jackson is another standout, in her second starring role on the big screen (her first being "Poetic Justice") she does justice to her character. Her and Eddie Murhpy have great chemistry on screen and make a cute, believable couple, they both bring their characters out to the fullest, and are at times very believable. Larry Miller who played the head of the college in the first returns, and as always gives a wonderfully comical performance with his character, and in one scene his character has a little run in with a hamster that is unbelievably funny, I almost died laughing.
The script was written by Steve Oderkerk, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz of the "American Pie" fame, and is quite cleverly witty and at times downright hilarious. There is a few downsides to the movie though, first of all the plot is a bit underdeveloped, it jumps around a lot from one plot the other and I said once in the movie "I'm confused", but it quickly developed a solid plot around 45 minutes into the movie. The movie also has alot of good points to it, first up is the acting which is fabulous as described above, second is the script which is well written, and third is the wonderul make up effects, which one an Oscar for the first film, they are very well made, and disguise Eddie Murphy in all his characters quite well.
Direction by Peter Segal is nice too, but his plot points are a bit jumbled, but besides that "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" is a film that will be enjoyed by fans of the original, and maybe if your not even a fan of the original, I think you will still like this sequel. Its a good sequel, that leaves the question open; "Is Nutty Professor III that far away"?
Reviewed by Brandon Herring 7-28-00
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