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The nutty professor II: The Klumps

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The Klumps are back!

Loveable Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) thought he had seen the last of his alter ego but Buddy Love (Eddie Murphy) is back and trying to make it on his own.

Having done his best to keep Buddy buried in his subconscious, the portly and painfully shy professor is horrified to find him resurfacing in untimely outbursts and threatening his marriage plans to colleague Denise Gains (Janet Jackson). Utilising Denise's cutting edge DNA research, Sherman decides to rid himself of his monstrous nemesis - and his disruptive outbursts - once and for all by extracting Buddy's DNA from his system.

But Buddy will not go quietly. He bursts full-bodied into Sherman's world and lays claim to the professor's astounding invention - a revolutionary youth serum. The serum can temporarily turn back time, shave decades off one's appearance and restore vitality, making it a hugely lucrative property that everyone's clamouring for. Desperate to keep it from Buddy, Sherman hides the serum in the Klump family home, thinking it will be safe. But Buddy finally locates the lucrative Youth juice and steals away. And so begins a race against time, as Sherman battles to reclaim his formula, restore order to his family and marry the woman he loves... before all hell breaks loose.

Persons of interest

Eddie Murphy .... Professor Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Cletus "Papa" Klump, Young Cletus Klump, Anna Pearl "Mama" Jensen Klump, Ida Mae "Granny" Jensen, Ernie Klump Sr, Lance Perkins
Janet Jackson .... Professor Denise Gaines
Larry Miller .... Dean Richmond
John Ales .... Jason
Richard Gant .... Mr Gaines
Anna Maria Horsford .... Mrs Gaines
Melinda McGraw .... Leanne Guilford
Jamal Mixon .... Ernie Klump Jr.
Gabriel Williams .... Isaac
Earl Boen .... Dr Knoll
Nikki Cox .... Ms. Stamos
Freda Payne .... Claudine
Sylvester Jenkins .... Old Willie
Wanda Sykes .... Chantal
Jerry Lewis .... Creator
Bill Richmond .... Screenwriter
Peter Segal .... Director

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Studios and distributors:

Universal Pictures

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Theatrical report

Ed-die! Ed-die!

Taking a strange idea to its extreme, Eddie slaps on the latex and has some fun. I didn't see The nutty professor so this whole deal of the Klump family hanging out slanging each other is new to me. It seems like a semi-reasonable excuse for a bunch of fat and fart jokes (like anyone needs an excuse for the latter) with a "serious" contrast in re the love relationship between Sherman and Denise. Ha, ha, ha. Actually, I would like to see Jerry Lewis's original version just to find out what Hollywood's done to it.

Meanwhile, I keep recalling Big Momma's house, which I saw first. It did the romance thing a lot better than The Klumps even though it's a rip-off of the latter. Martin Lawrence, the poor man's Eddie Murphy, has caught onto a good thing in taking Eddie's more successful films and doing them over. That way he gets a guaranteed audience and a guaranteed product. It's a better way to make loads of money than being a lawyer (but what isn't?).

The nutty professor II: The Klumps is a fun piece of Eddie humour. The edges have been rounded off from his Raw days but he's still a pretty funny guy. Get into it.