Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

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The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I expected to see lots of variations of the humor that The Nutty Professor (the Murphy version) used in the classic scene of the Klumps at the dinner table. Instead, what little humor this sequel had split time with disgust as the movie went mostly for sexy granny jokes.The sad thing is, more fart humor would have been an *improvement.* This movie was boring. It was uninteresting. It missed numerous opportunities to have some fun. And it spent too much time showing off make-up and not enough time being entertaining.Perhaps most painful to watch was Eddie Murphy just being Eddie Murphy (as Buddy Love). I never understand why some actors/directors think that if a character screams real loud and makes a face, it's funny. It is especially not funny when it happens 2-3 times. In the first movie, Buddy Love was funny (if cruel), and his observations were right on target. In The Klumps, Love is like a grown version of that Home Alone kid, when he grabs his face and just yells at the camera. Uh, if you are done shouting now, can we move on?Janet Jackson was fluff. She is a good singer, but her acting left much to be desired. And I don't know what she has done with her chest, but it seems unusually huge here. What happened to Carla from the first film? In truth, switching Jada Pinkett-Smith for Janet Jackson is like in 2000, we stopped using Pentium PC's (used in 1996, at time of the first film), and go back to use 486 PC's (used mostly in 1990, at Ms. Jackson's peak of her music career).I suppose it would be appropriate to say how well done the make up is as Murphy plays his half-dozen or so characters. Yes, he makes them seem like different people, at least superficially. But none of the characters are really there, you know? They each have little tag lines, and maybe a quirk, and those lines and that quirk are used to death. Take the granny. Yep, she likes sex. She is a sex machine. She wants every man. OK, uh, so? We've seen that 20 times. Can we get to something new? Baby Buddy Love ripping off the blouse of a woman to reveal her bra.Overall, I feel sad to see the level Murphy's wit has been reduced to. He used to be more biting, more insightful and more, well, funny. Now he is a human cartoon.P.S.: I recommend this movie if you're a die hard Eddie Murphy or Janet Jackson fan.

Terrible excuse for a movie. The first Nutty proffesser had some amusing moments like Fat Murphy getting insulted at a club by stand up comedian Dave Chappell with insulting wisecracks and then getting him back later as thin Murphy with some even funnier wisecracks, and the scenes with Murphy and Ms. Purty. Ms. Purty wasn't even in this movie, and there was hardly even any mention of her. Instead, we got Janet Jackson, who proved to us she just needs to stick to singing. Janet Jackson's a great singer, but acting is a different thing. But the Klumps themselves, oh no. They were sort of funny in the first movie, but even then, the excessive use of fart jokes and colon jokes is just not for me. I sort of liked the joke in the first film about the huge, excessive amounts of food on the dinner table at the Klumps' house. But this movie had absolutely no funny moments with the Klumps at all. It was All constant fart and granny sex jokes from them, excessive yelling, and No funny jokes. They were also used five times as much in this film than in the first film. Less is more. A little of them go a long way. In the first film, there were other funny parts with just Murphy, and I liked the scenes with the dean in the first film who detested fat Murphy and kept giving him a hard time. But in this film, the dean has the most horrible, embarrassingly dreadful scene with a large hamster. And the noise the dean made while the huge hamster had his way with the dean was one of the most terrible, disturbing, embarrassing, horrible HORRIBLE experiences I ever had watching any film. Ever!

Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps is sequel to the remade version of The Nutty Professor. The movie is about nice Sherman Klump who is about to be married to an entirely person from the first movie and tries to make his sleek and evil alter ego a separate person. He succeeds, but finds himself getting dumber and dumber just as he's about to make a presentation about a new thing he created, which ends up horribly inappropriate. The plot is remotely interesting, but ridiculous and meaningless. It's fine that if a sequel isn't as funny as its predecessor, but filling every scene with a forced sexual innuendo or a bathroom joke is not good, it's just wrong.The first movie had the same kind of material, but there were other jokes that were used. Just watch the first movie, the original Disney version, or even the classic Robert Louis Stevenson book "Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde." My Rating: */*****

How much can you really expect of a film containing giant hampsters, naked grannies and Eddie Murphy behaving like a dog (literally)? Unfortunately, most attempts at humour were crude to the point of evoking disgust, offence or substandard raunchiness, the combination of which isn't all that funny. The repeated heavy focus on Eddie Murphy meant it needed a remarkable solo effort to steal the show but 'The Klumps' was devoid of the charm and Murphy dazzle of its predecessor. The makeup remained the one admirable point. The more time the camera revolves around the rest of the Klumps has you appreciating the brilliance of the makeup, which adds to each character in its own individual way. The bantering and squabbling between the mother and father and even the grandma at times, overshadows the main relationship between Murphy and Janet Jackson's characters which is fraught with standardism and monotony. Though, on this occasion, grandma's mutterings don't hold as much value as they did in the first film and become hit and miss in the humour stakes at best. Apart from the odd brief section here and there, it was an asinine attempt at humour which bordered upon facetious at times.