Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Sameir Ali The movie deals with a nutty profession who is ill treated and ignored by everyone. He develops an alter ego by his own experiments. He develops a chemical that makes him charming, handsome and egoistic.Jerry Lewis proves his ability in writing, directing and acting. The nutty professor is present in most of us. We are shy and feeling neglected in the society at some point. Our face is the problem; A "mask" could solve this problem. That is the case in most of super heroes in the comics.The movie is really entertaining, funny and makes you think deeper at times. Performance of the actors, camera, music etc are all outstanding. The movie is very colorful. Compared to the year of release, it is definitely a master piece.Highly recommended!

BA_Harrison Comic actor Jerry Lewis draws inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for his crazy fantasy The Nutty Professor, in which the star plays a nerdish chemistry professor, Julius Kelp, who invents a formula that transforms him into the debonair yet rather despicable Buddy Love, a cool cat who is hip with the kids at jazz club The Purple Pit, but who has a particular eye for blonde student Stella Purdy (played by the stunning Stella Stevens).A little less slapstick than Lewis's previous work, The Nutty Professor teaches a valuable lesson about being comfortable with who you really are, while at the same time providing plenty of giggles as Buddy's personality frequently collides with Kelp's at the most inopportune of moments. Even those unable to recognise the genius of Lewis in his other movies surely cannot deny the brilliance of the performers' work in this instance—how he effortlessly switches between Kelp and Love, bringing pathos to his role as well as humour.Also making The Nutty Professor a delight to behold are the wonderful production design, which is infused with bright colours throughout, and the the excellent jazzy soundtrack, which helps to keep the action swinging along.

lasttimeisaw American comedian Jerry Lewis' fourth director-cum-co-writer-cum-star vehicle in his solo career, a loopy parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where he playfully juggles with the dichotomy between the geeky, bucktoothed, accidental-prone professor Julius Kelp and the raffish, chain-smoking, hipster crooner Buddy Love. What prompts Professor Kelp (Lewis) to undergo a thorough transmogrification is his swooning over his student Stella Purdy (Stevens), who is far out of his league, although no one in his class is even remotely credible to pass for a college freshman, or maybe the 60s simply was not a kind era for adolescents. Thanks to an inexplicable magic potion he manages to confect, with a faint reference to the turning of a hirsute werewolf, Kelp's new-born alter ego, Buddy Love fabulously materializes (introduced by a laboriously arranged reaction long-shot from on-lookers to elicit the anticipation), he is the antithesis of Kelp, and whose rebarbative behaviour has also implausibly escaped from the latter's clutches. But then the grating part emerges, albeit his condescending, offensive and self-serving attitude, this chimney-mouthed slicker is portrayed as a virtuoso show- stopper, and perversely sweeps Stella off her feet (although she does have some reservations but condones to fall for his bad-boy mojo). This male-patronising, female-stereotyping angle, becomes the undoing of a well-intentioned comedy, as in the final speech Buddy/Kelp delivers, we must brave ourselves to embrace who we are, we can always learn to be a better me, but leave the ideal me in that imaginative realm only. The film would be treated with a redux remake starring a multiple-role-playing Eddie Murphy in 1996 with great popularity owing to its staggering make-up magic and special visual effects. It also foreshadow the personality-sea-changing in Jim Carrey's breakthrough stunner THE MASK (1994). Since this broad comedy relies heavily on its star's slapstick, Lewis unstintingly turns it into his own shtick-boasting vehicle, and as obnoxious as Buddy Love is, one has to admit Lewis' protean performance is something to be reckoned with, sometimes he is also evocative of a young Jack Lemmon. Therefore, it barely leaves anything for other players, only Del Moore's prim but showbiz- passionate university president Dr. Warfield can swipe some thunder from Lewis' omnipresence, whereas, Stella Stevens' buxom ingénue is too amicable and souless for her own good, as a corollary of being projected from a parochial and patriarch world-view. In hindsight, the film is a mug's game hindered by its own myopia but survives only for Lewis' comedic knack, when he stays in his nebbish character.

TxMike I grew up on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis during the 1950s, Martin was the straight man, and excellent crooner, while Lewis was the silly comic. I remember when we learned that Martin and Lewis were breaking up their team and most of us could not understand that. Why would they break up their act.As an adult I now understand that, after a while you just want to do something different. And they both had that opportunity.In this movie Jerry Lewis is a Chemistry professor, Professor Julius Kelp. He is typically nerdy, with prominent buck teeth and poor eyesight. In his spare time he experiments and discovers a potion that has amazing properties. When he drinks the elixir he becomes Buddy Love, with a personality quite the opposite of the nerdy Kelp. He is a pianist and lounge singer, a snappy dresser, is abrasive to everyone, but somehow managed to catch the attention of a pretty girl.That pretty girl is a 20-something Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy. She was indelibly attracted to Buddy Love, and even she couldn't understand why. She also happened to be a student in his Chemistry class.(As an aside, I once had a boss who in the 1950s married his college English professor, so the idea of appropriate student/professor relationships is not far-fetched.) So the fun in the movie is seeing the nerdy professor with the nerdy Jerry Lewis nasal voice becoming the suave Buddy Love with the golden baritone voice, and without the prominent buck teeth. The problem was, the elixir only lasted a short time, and sometimes Buddy returned to being Kelp on-stage, and actor Lewis handles the voice changes superbly.A fun Jerry Lewis comedy. SPOILERS: In the end when Buddy changes to Kelp on-stage, he relents and explains himself. Later Stella consoles him, and says she would rather be the wife of a professor instead, making Kelp happy. But his gregarious dad has decided to sell the elixir, $1.00 a pop, to those who wanted to be a different person. Starting with the professors students in class!