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The main character is Professor Sherman Klump who has just
discovered a formula that can return youth to old creatures.
It is going to make his university millions and while basking
in the confidence such a discovery has given him, Sherman
decides to risk a relationship with his marvellous colleague
Denise Gaines (Janet Jackson).
Now, don't snort. Jackson does a tremendous job in the role
and transforms herself from real-life pop queen to academic
with an amazingly believable performance. His advances immediately
get the thumbs up and then the trouble starts.
Bursting to get out of the charming, intelligent and affable
Sherman's size 72 suits is Buddy Love - an incarnation of
the professor's more worldly and wild side. Love is determined
to take over control of Klump and start enjoying the more
base delights on offer to adults and he starts getting stronger
day by day. The moments where Love controls Klump can be very
funny and you absolutely ache with embarrassment for the professor.
Murphy does such a brilliant job on his characters that you
do see them as separate entities and the way in which he has
given each a different personality is award-winning stuff.
The very clever use of several Klump characters on the same
screen at once boosts the feeling of watching an ensemble
cast play the roles and again, hats off to Murphy's touch.
We won't give the plot away but needless to say Love manages
to escape and become a separate being through using the formula,
creates havoc and basically has poor Sherman in deep doo-doo
with his fiancee, employer and a very, very large hamster.
(We won't go into that!)
The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps is hilarious, but don't
expect anything other than to be half laughing at the thought:
"I can't believe he got away with that."
Some of the scenes with sex-crazed Grandma are bladder-bursting
material. The first time she shows up at a restaurant she
bumps into the table with her wheelchair and Pa Klump says:
"Uh, oh, here comes the Alzheimers Express." Or later on,
while trading insults, she threatens Pa with a razor in her
bag. "You haven't got a razor in your bag," says Pa, "You
haven't got a bag … that's your titty."
Speaking of which, the scenes where she tries to ravage Buddy
Love are indescribably funny. This is a fun comedy and one
that really shows off the talents of Eddie Murphy. Love him
or hate him, he's a damn fine actor.
Conclusion: Movie 85%, Extras 85%
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