Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Release Date: 6/10/00 Certificate: 12 Official Website
Director: Peter Segal Producer: Brian grazer Screenplay: Brian W. Blaustein, David Sheffield, Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz.
Sherman finds that a couple of strands of his DNA are Buddy Love (his slim, self-confident alter-ego in the first film), which cause him to say inappropraite things. When he offends the girl he fancies, Denise (Janet Jackson) Sherman resolves to remove the offending Dioxyribo Nucleic Acid. However an accident causes Buddy to reconstitute with canine DNA. He sets himself up as a rival to sell Sherman's youth-restoring formula. However, the procedure that separated the two protoganists is causing Sherman to lose his vast intellect, and will eventually leave him a drooling vegetable. So it's a race against time to re-constitute them...
Admittedly I haven't seen the first movie, so I don't know how they compare, but after seeing this I'm in no great hurry to. Eddie Murphy is superb as Sherman Klump, making a really sympathetic character, and convincingly playing his kin too, but he's let down by a poor script. What genuinely amusing moments there are, are few and far between. Instead there is an over-reliance on gross-out humour, which is suprisingly hit-and-miss, considering American Pie directors the Weitz Brothers contributed to the screenplay. Given the movie's title, you'd expect the Klumps to be central figures in the story-line, but are instead relegated to sub-plots (Papa Klump's impotency, Grandma Klump's nymphomania) and disappointing coimc interludes.
Another disappointing outing for Murphy, with humour too juvenile for adults, and a movie too boring for kids. 3/10
