Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
In Eddie Murphy's first Nutty Professor reprise of the 1963 Jerry Lewis classic, he did a memorable turn as a grossly overweight genius who tinkers with a slimming potion in a bid to both fool and charm a beautiful fellow professor using a skinny alter ego, Buddy Love. This time it is an elixir that can restore all the glories of youth - including virility. The same Oscar-winning make-up technicians who allowed him to gain 150 kilograms as Sherman Klump last time round feature again. Directed by Peter Segal. Also starring Janet Jackson.
Elvis Mitchell
The New York Times
'Parts of the films are tremendously funny. Every single scene in which Mr Murphy, hidden away under millions of dollars' worth of transformative makeup, plays all the members of the Klump family - all of them together in some scenes - will knock the blues right out of you. But some of the cheap laughs to which the picture stoops will give you the blues . . . It is in his depictions of the Klumps that Mr Murphy exhibits perceptiveness and depth. He doesn't condescend to any of the people and his affection for the characters - the kind of people he might have made fun of as a younger man - is contagious. The Klumps are people he knows and loves, especially Sherman's mother. He has a character actor's reflexes now; he can submerge himself into a role without telegraphing to an audience what he thinks of the character.'
Joe Morgenstern