Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

Nice effects though.

Let's be realistic.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Released in 2000 and directed by Peter Segal, "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" brings back Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, grossly overweight professor with a good heart, who's dating a new girl (Janet Jackson) and still battling with his thin, charismatic alter ego, Buddy Love (also Murphy), although the way Buddy manifests is different. Larry Miller is on hand as the dean of the university while Melinda McGraw plays a representative of a company interested in purchasing a youth-giving potion. Like the first movie, Murphy plays all the adult Klump members (Granny, Mama, Papa and Ernie).Janet is a superb replacement for Jada Pinkett Smith as Sherman's girlfriend and, like the first film, Sherman is a sympathetic character while Buddy Love is charismatic. I might be in the minority, but I wasn't a fan of the two Klump dinner table scenes in the 1996 movie, which explains why I feel this sequel is a drop in quality: There are too many tasteless scenes with the Klumps – not to mention unnecessarily crude scenes in general – and not enough with the best characters, Sherman and Buddy Love. Buddy in particular is mysteriously absent much of the time, which is inexplicable in that he was one of the comedic highlights of the earlier movie.The way Eddie plays all the different characters is genius and well-executed, but the film's simply not as funny as the first one, unless you favor flatulence jokes and vulgar humor in general. The first movie had both, but there's more of it here and less of what was good.The movie runs 106 minutes and was shot mostly in the Los Angeles area, but also Moore's Crossroads, South Carolina (presumably the opening church scene).GRADE: C

I'll just say I am a sucker and I love sequels except Disney sequels (and sometimes even those I enjoy) I like when people and directors revisit old places and characters in movies and can give them new life and more meaning. I remember watching the first Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy when I was a kid with my sister on VHS almost every day. I also remember watching Nutty Professor 2 for the first time when it came out and LOVING it. I think they made Sherman a lot more sweet and lovable in this and Janet Jackson was a nice touch to add to his character. I laughed at a lot of the stupid and silly jokes as a kid and am even laughing more as an adult. It's not perfect but it is one of my favorite sequels to one of my favorite movies that I watch in a pair every year or so.

"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.

Unlike most people who use different genres as a means of negatively bashing the movie. I mean this in the utmost respect. When you ignore the vulgarity and the other things, both Klumps and the first movie are famous for, you get a movie about two sides of one persona at war with each other and the other side pulling no stops to destroy each other. In the first movie, Buddy was just another part of Sherman's persona, but now that he's been unleashed into the world with none of Sherman's love and common sense to restrain him he becomes a deranged lunatic. He even gives De Niro a run for his money when parodying the Cape Fear Theater scene.