Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Plot synopsis:
After finding success with a DNA restructuring formula in the first film, Sherman Klump has created another formula which enables those who take it to find the Fountain of Youth. He has also met and fallen in love with a colleague, Denise Gaines, who has developed a method to isolate genetic material and later becomes his fiancée. Together, their work has enabled Wellman College to receive a $150 million award from a pharmaceutical firm to the excitement of Dean Richmond. Despite his good fortune, Sherman has a major problem: the personality of his vanquished alter ego, Buddy Love, is still ingrained inside him and causes him to act out in the same crass manner Buddy does.
After a few particularly unpleasant incidents, from Buddy kicking in, when Sherman sexually insults his own therapist trying to help him with it, then does the same thing to a woman walking a dog, and later during a toast turns around and reveals that his father was fired rather than retired, and then when Sherman intended on proposing to Denise, but then Buddy kicks in and makes it a perverted sex request, causing Denise to become mortified against him. Sherman heads to his lab where he uses Denise's methodology to isolate and remove the gene in Sherman's DNA where Buddy has manifested.
Determined to be rid of Buddy permanently, and despite of Jason warning him of potentially catastrophic consequences for his health, Sherman extracts the gene with from inside his body. However, he does not dispose of the genetic material and as a result, Buddy becomes a sentient being when a hair from a Basset Hound who was Sherman's test subject finds its way into it and causes such a reaction. To make matters worse, Jason's suspicions prove correct when Sherman discovers that, due to the extraction, his brain cells are beginning to deteriorate.
Realizing he needs to keep the youth formula out of Buddy's hands, Sherman stashes it at his parents' house. Buddy, who is trying to sell the formula to a different company, quickly realizes where it is and steals some of it. Buddy also doctors the remainder with fertilizer, which causes chaos at a demonstration the next day when a hamster Sherman uses to demonstrate the youth finding effects instead mutates and becomes an aggressive monster who violates Dean Richmond in front of a live television audience. The humiliated Dean fires Sherman, who learns that his brain's deterioration has worsened from Jason. Sherman then decides to end his engagement and break up with Denise.
In a last-ditch effort to secure the money, Sherman quickly works on a newer, much more potent formula while his mental faculties allow him to. While he is doing this, Richmond confronts him about Buddy's actions believing the two are working together. He leaves with Richmond and a tennis ball and head to the competing firm. Meanwhile, a worried Denise discovers what has happened and that Sherman's brain damage has progressed to almost eighty percent. Enlisting the help of Sherman's father Cletus, Denise heads for the firm Buddy is selling the formula to.
There, Sherman sets his plan into motion. Taking advantage of the canine DNA that crossed with Buddy's, Sherman uses the tennis ball to play fetch. The ball is covered with the new formula, which takes Buddy back to an infantile state and eventually to a glowing mass of genetic material. The idea is for Sherman to suck the genetic material back into his body through a straw, thus putting his DNA back together and returning him to normal. However, as Sherman is chasing what is left of Buddy, the glowing mass evaporates and thus Sherman cannot restore his intelligence.
Denise and Cletus arrive too late to save him, and seeing what has happened to Sherman, Denise breaks into tears. As they go to leave, Sherman takes a look at a fountain in the lobby of the building and remarks that it is "pretty". Seeing that the water is glowing, Denise realizes that the genetic material has reconstituted and that if Sherman drinks the water before it dissipates, he will be restored to normal. Although reluctant at first, Sherman drinks two handfuls of the water from Denise's hand then Cletus dunks Sherman's head under the water to drink, and thus he is able to get his genetic makeup back in proper order.
The film closes with Denise and Sherman's wedding reception, with Buddy nowhere to be found, Dean rehires Sherman with a wedding present and the hamster is back to normal and Dean decides to love the hamster.

Tags: whimsical, humor, flashback

Review:
How much one likes `The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps' depends on how much Eddie Murphy you can stand.
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.
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).
Basically I thought this film had some funny moments, Eddie Murphy is amazing, Janet looked great, but the story was weak, and overall it wasn't nearly as funny as the first..
Anyway, while the movie still focuses on Sherman and his quest for love and scientific goals (this time making people younger), the rest of the family gets involved in the story lines.
Title: Nutty Professor II, The: The KlumpsRating: **1/2 (out of 4)Review:  I've never been a die-hard Eddie Murphy fan, but that's  of course not to say that he isn't funny or endearing, either.
NUTTY II, however, is taken to extremes with the bathroom humor, everywhere from Grandma Klump giving Buddy Love oral sex in a hot tub to a hamster growing to epic proportions giving anal sex to Klump's boss, this film revels in bad taste way too much.
Playing no less than 8 roles (this might be some kind of record), his main character is Sherman Klump, a charmingly overweight professor who, in the original wanted to get rid of all the weight and became a stud in Buddy Love to make a beautiful co-ed (Jada Pinkett, whose missing prescence in the sequel is annoyingly unexplained) and eventually learns in the end that you should be yourself and that personality is way more important about looks.
As I've said before, Murphy is terrific, and he's well worth watching in his eight roles, but this film will turn off a lot of viewers because all the sick humor, which I must say is more silly than funny, yet you find yourself for some reason still laughing to it (or rather, at it).
Eddie Murphy who has starred in movies such as "Coming To America" and "Beverly Hills Cop" which were both hilarious, has struck out here in the poorest fashion possible."The Nutty Professor" (1996) was okay because of the use of the Klump family who appeared throughout the movie every so often breaking it up with some humorous scenes.
I really thought that most of those characters were separate, and very talented, actors!During this wonderful new "Nutty Professor" movie, Murphy propels the multi character thing a bit further.
There is no redeeming feature to this film which wastes the once funny talent of Eddie Murphy by spreading it thin over a plethora of characters, the Klumpp family, some of whom are almost unintelligible.
Eddie Murphy's talent holds this movie together with his acting of the Klumps; but the story suffers miserably.
I think they are trying to klump our brains with vulgar jokes which are pretty stupid to say the least.I can't believe this movie is number one.I did not laugh once and preferred The Nutty Professor 1 over this movie.
Unfortunatly the jokes weren't any good so his talent in playing multiple charactors didn't really matter.Despite Eddie Murphy's fine acting skills, I really disliked this movie.
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..
Reprising all of the first movie's characters and even much of the formula with body noises, hallucinations and jokes intact, the sequel actually has very little to tell it apart from the first other than the wonderful presence of Janet Jackson.
No one was expecting much when Eddie Murphy remade the Jerry Lewis movie "The Nutty Professor," so the touching, funny result was a surprise.
(There's one element about Buddy, regarding a dog, that's actually quite funny, and semi-original).As Sherman Klump, Murphy is occasionally quite moving, but this is rare here; instead, most of the time this sequel robs him of the most surprising and worthwhile aspect of the Nutty Professor the first Murphy time around: his dignity.
With a drug company offering $150,000000 for proof of the youth serum, Buddy plans to get hold of the only serum available.This is a sequel to the Nutty Professor and has the promise to be better because it has a greater focus on one of the funniest elements of the first film - the Klump family (all played by Murphy).
Eddie Murphy is great in all his roles (although Love and Granny both seem more over the top and forced), Miller is funny as the unfortunate Dean but Janet Jackson is a real weak link as the love interest.
It makes you realise how good (and sexy) Jada Pinkett was in the first movie.This had the potential to be funny - by merely repeating the first film with a slightly different plot.
Although this movie does have the now obligatory gross-out humor that has become a fad thanks to the Farrelly brothers, it doesn't assail the audience with it; it uses it sporadically, thankfully, because this is the lowest point of the film.Nutty Professor II: The Klumps brings back Eddie Murphy's sweet, likeable Professor Klump, who must somehow find a way to rid himself of his alter-ego Buddy Love, who threatens to ruin his relationship with beautiful fellow professor Jackson.
If audiences thought Eddie Murphy's comedic flare was waning, this will certainly prove to them he is a genius at his craft.Surprisingly sweet and honest at times, Nutty II is a sequel that does what many sequels do not: it completely lives up to the first in its hilarious jokes, and packs in brilliant characterizations of the Klump family, thanks to magical makeup work and Murphy's brilliance.
As I was rediscovering Eddie Murphy's "Nutty Professor" saga, the movies grew on me in a way I didn't expect.
It seems crazy but the suspension of disbelief does work, you know it's Eddie Murphy all right but there comes a point where you identify each member of the family and take them as separate persons.He can be a boorish father with a good heart, a loving Big Mama, a depraved grandma and a boorish big brother yet be believable in each of these disguises.
A lesser film would have made "conquering her heart" the big issue while it's more about getting back the "brain" and even more about conquering your self-esteem.Take the way Sherman Klump feels overshadowed by the loud and extraverted personality of Buddy Love.
It's not just that the characters behave differently but they also look differently in a credible way, even the unexpected young version of Papa Klump.Apparently, the film is worth less than a five on IMDb, well, I think it deserves a second chance, it's better than that, it's funny, gentle and provide some touching emotional moments.
Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to The Nutty Professor 2: The KlumpsPlot In A Paragraph: Buddy Love returns just as everything is going great for Sherman Klump.I didn't enjoy this at all.
Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is stressed by his impending marriage to Denise (Janet Jackson) and his alter-ego Buddy Love's threatened reemergence.
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.
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.
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.
Now he is a human cartoon.P.S.: I recommend this movie if you're a die hard Eddie Murphy or Janet Jackson fan..
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.
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.
Eddie Murphy is very good in this movie and it's still very entertaining to see him portray so many different characters that are nothing like the other, but sadly it just dosen't work out like the first one did, it isn't as funny, it was very rare that I genuinely laughed during this.
The storyline is ridiculous, the first one was as well, but it embraced that fact, however, with this it almost seems to think it's clever, using different science formulas to create substances and inventions that would never work in real life, the way in which Buddy Love comes back is stupid, I know these movies don't aim to be scientifically accurate, but this was just pure stupidity.
I could tolerate the films dumb, far fetched storyline if it was a good comedy, but it's not at all, every joke is lame and, for the most part, really disgusting, it seemed to rely on being gross, even hard to watch at times, instead of trying to be funny.
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).
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..
Apart from the main characters Sherman and Buddy, Eddie Murphy reprises his multiple roles as each of the family members of the Klump family with the exception of the youngest son, and proves his versatility in playing different characters.
Eddie Murphy is a talented comedic actor, but I hope there is not going to be another sequel to this movie.
***Starring: Eddie Murphy (x 7), Janet Jackson, and Larry Miller.Everyone's favorite obese professor is back, this time creating a youth formula.
I watched this film the other night on video wondering beforehand if it would live up to the previous "Nutty Professor" film which I think is Eddie Murphy best film since the underrated "Coming to America".Boy was I disappointed to see that this lame sequel is pretty much more of the same from the previous film.Nothing but toilet humor throughout and it adds nothing original as far as humor whatsoever.I realize that low brow humor is "in" nowadays thanks to films likes "There's Something About Mary" and "American Pie"(both superior films),but if it is'nt funny or clever it just sits there like a lump with nothing but the sounds of crickets in the background.With sucsess of this film there will certianly be another sequal made.
Like I said, I thought the first Eddie Murphy: Nutty Professor was a classic.
Eddie Murphy really plays the whole Klump family, as Sherman develops a youth serum and asks his girlfriend Denise Gains (Janet Jackson) to marry him.
Interspersed is more of the Klump family than previously seen (in more ways than one), and it is here that perhaps the movie is most rewarding: while Sherman is the gently-lovable center of the film, the bulk (for lack of a better term) of their scenes, deftly played for maximum laughs by Murphy and brilliantly edited for boffo impact, is provided by Mama & Papa Klump (touching and hysterical) and Granny, whose character neatly and efficiently steals every scene (particularly memorable is the portion of her Buddy Love dream sequence where she joyously frolics in a sea of wildflowers).
As for the performances, this is, naturally, Eddie Murphy's film and he is obviously having a ball; at slower points in the movie, one is able to take a breath and admire the man for what seems like boundless energy.
**********NUTTY PROFESSOR II**********The Plot: Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is living unhappily as a scientist genius at a university.
Well `Doesn't Really Matter' is the theme tune to the new Eddie Murphy movie - Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.
If you think your way back to the 1996 re-make of the Jerry Lewis Nutty Professor, then you'll remember Buddy Love, Sherman's alter-ego.
From the beginning I knew that it was going to be a laughter packed movie because judging by the first scene, Eddie's performances as Sherman, Mama, Papa, Ernie and last but not least Grandma Klump are so believable, that it is as if they are five different people.
BOWFINGER, the original NUTTY PROFESSOR, and this film are all funny since Murphy plays a variety of characters that shows the great talent that Murphy has.
The professor Klump/Buddy love alter-ego theme could have been good, but this film seemed to want to focus on gross out humor such as having a giant rodent sodomize a man.
But when a little dog hair touches it, Buddy comes to life and starts to cause trouble with everyone.And now since Sherman got rid of Buddy in his body, his intelligence starts to drop dramatically and he has to now find out how he's going to go through with a speech about his youth formula that could earn him 150,000,000 and stop Buddy from causing any more trouble.The movie has a couple of funny moments but I just didn't laugh as much as I did in the first "Nutty Professor".
Eddie Murphy is a real treat as usual and Janet Kackson is pretty good as Sherman's girlfriend.So the film's main problems is lack of really funny scenes and it sometimes doesn't know where to go.
But most of the problems is made up by Eddie Murphy and so "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" is an entertaining but disappointing sequel.
Throw 1, maybe 2, farts into the picture, let Eddie Murphy do some writing and actually expand the characters a little bit, and I think you'd have a funny movie.
This movie is better than the original Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy, but it is much nastier.
Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) discovers a sort of fountain of youth potion, but discovers in the process that Buddy Love (also Murphy) is back and trying to steal the potion and ruin his engagement to beautiful Janet Jackson.Sequel manges to outdo the original with twice the special effects, twice the humor, and twice the heart.
I've always liked Eddie Murphy, but I did expect more from the first Nutty Professor movie.
Freed from the burden of living up to the 1963 film, Murphy built on the strengths of his original Nutty Professor movie.
Janet Jackson was good as Buddy's love interest but I thought her voice seemed a little too young for the character she was supposedly playing.6.
I think this movie did more with character development and did not focus on Sherman and Buddy Love like the original.
Quick Take: Definitely `nutty' but lacking much of a story.2 out of 5In Eddie Murphy's first Nutty Professor remake, the Klump family dinner was one of the most entertaining segments in the film.
But his alter ego, Buddy Love (Murphy's most annoying character), decides to steal it for himself creating problems for Sherman and the entire Klump family.
I think we all have relatives, in-laws and family members that we could identify with in `The Nutty Professor 2'although they may not be as extreme as some of these characters.This movie is basically the `Eddie Murphy Show' as he plays the entire Klump family.
Everything from a swiss cheese plot (again with the scientific formula and Buddy Love) and wasted characters (Janet Jackson) to pushing the bounds of good taste (How would you like your 37 fart jokes?) is packed into this comedy-drama that's neither funny enough to be a comedy and not touching enough to be a drama.Eddie Murphy got jipped when he was only paid once for this film as he DOES deserve credit for playing every other role but his fiancee (Janet Jackson) and young Jason Klump (John Ales).