Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Nadine Salakov This remake is watchable 90% of the time, the scenes with the animals are not necessary, it's surprising that PETA didn't go crazy on the filmmakers' behinds, maybe they did, but rationally they are not even real animals and this is just a movie.The in your face aspect is "Buddy Love" (Eddie Murphy) shouting and laughing over the top throughout most of his scenes, it's extreme but it's obviously supposed to be. The movie turns into a type of alter-ego story, "Buddy" is loud and crass and "Professor Sherman Klump" (also Eddie Murphy) is quiet, reserved and respectful. The film is clever into making sure they are two complete opposites in personality as well as physicality.Even though this is a Comedy it isn't actually funny, even the comic that cussed "Sherman" out is not even funny, and "Buddy" getting his revenge with his jokes/insults against the comic was not even funny either, on both parts it was just insults disguised as comedy, real comedians can use insults but they have an actual point to what they are saying.The message in this motion picture is hard to find until the end when they make it clear that you should love yourself regardless of how you look."Sherman's" family "The Klumps" are difficult to watch being that they are all unnatural due to most of them being played by Eddie Murphy in drag, and what is up with "Sherman" inviting the love interest "Carla" (Jada Pinkett Smith) to have dinner with his family already knowing that they are rude people and it was verified by flatulence and swearing at the dinner table. One could argue that "Sherman" isn't perfect and that was a mistake, but we see that him taking that potion already shows that he isn't perfect and is making mistakes, do we really need to see him make more errors?!The pacing of the movie is fine, some of the dialogue is too much, but there's worse comedies out there.This is not one of Eddie Murphy's best movies, but then again the majority of his films are rubbish, the only decent films that he's done is the "Beverly Hills Cop" trilogy.

ironhorse_iv Eddie Murphy does a superb job playing multiple characters in this movie, especially in the lead role of Sherman Klump, a good-hearted obese university teacher, who is tired of people making fun of his weight. Hoping to win the affection of a colleague, Dr. Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett), Sherman will test a miraculous, but risky experimental, weight-loss pharmaceutical formula on himself. However, the results of experiment are not what, he wanted, as a dangerous obnoxious alter ego named 'Buddy Love' is trying to destroy Sherman, once and for all. Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, as much as I like the original 1963 Jerry Lewis's film of the same name, for its odd sense of humor in the way, it parodies author Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. I just thought, 1996's 'The Nutty Professor' is a little more focus on the keeping the same type of a humor. In my opinion, the original was a little uneven with its jokes. It introduce some short jokes, yet, never expand on it. For the most part, the movie humor was all over the place, ranging from childish somewhat dumb slapstick to too avart-garde to understand. Because of that, many of the jokes, fall flat. The remake at least, kept the humor nearly everything in tone, even if the scenes with the professor's extended family weren't really needed. Because of this, the jokes in the 1996 version were better told. I understood, what the dream sequences, funny music montages, and hilarious outtakes were trying to go for. Not only that, but in a world of awful comedy remakes, 'The Nutty Professor' also stands out as a film to watch when you want a good laugh even if some of the jokes were somewhat offensive, gross and crude. For the most part, the fat jokes and toilet humor kinda do hit the funny bone for me. I'm not the best of shapes, myself, however, I'm willing to take a few jabs about my waistline, as long as the movie has a good message. This movie does. There is some heart to this film. I truly understand, why the likable professor wants to transform. I can't say, the same with Jerry Lewis's clumsy character in the original. All, I got from that movie is the fact that the somewhat annoying Professor wanted to boned his much younger, student; which is creepy. His drive for the change, really lacks depth. Another thing that bugs me, is how generic and tiresome, Jerry's nerd character is, as he used it, in a similar role in 1958's film 'Rock-A-Bye Baby'. Even his Buddy Love character doesn't seem new, as it clearly parodying his once-upon Rat Pack buddy, singer, Dean Martin. Plus, for a sci-fi formula plot that supposed to beef up the main character. Jerry Lewis's body doesn't really look any differ, as Buddy Love. Don't get me wrong, this remake also has its problems with the transforming like how does Sherman's body fat vanishes, yet his skin somehow shrinking to fit in, with his new body type, but at least, his Buddy Love seems like a new guy and the antagonist. This film really explore the conflict within man vs self. It was something that was missing from the first movie. Because of that, Sherman's speech toward the end, honestly does mean something, while the Lewis version kinda doesn't, as moments later, the film contradict those statements, when his girlfriend sneaks a few bottles, before their honeymoon. Because of that, the speech in the first movie toward the end doesn't seem so meaningful. This 1996 remake deserves more credit than it been getting. Some people had been dumping on it, for years. Even original producer like Jerry Lewis, abandoned it by 2009. Regardless, of what Lewis and other critics, thought. In my opinion, it's as good as the original, because of the amazing make-up magic and special visual effects at the time. The supporting cast in the new movie is also a lot better. I found Dave Chappelle's brief cameo as the bully comedian, Reggie Warrington and Larry Miller's character of Dean Richmond, to be just as funny, even if it's a bit mean-spirited. However, Jada Pinkett is a bit weak in the role. She really doesn't stand out at all. Regardless of that, the good hearted emotional music by composer, David Newman makes up for the lack of chemistry between Murphy and Pinkett. No really, give a listen to track 2 of Newman's original instrumental score. You will make you feel something. Overall: While, this movie is a bit raucous and crude, it did create some laughs, heart and poignancy than any Eddie Murphy movie has in quite in a long time. It was a Herculean task, but somehow, director, Tony Shadyac and his crew, succeed at it.

Jimmy L. Eddie Murphy's THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1996) is one of the mainstream classics of the 1990s. It's a great comedy with an emotional center, focusing on a lonely, overweight college professor who falls in love with a beautiful grad student and takes an experimental formula to lose weight and become the kind of man the young lady would want. It's a twist on the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde story, with the formula bringing out a new personality in the scientist.Not that many viewers will care, but this update is a pretty faithful adaptation of Jerry Lewis's original 1963 film of the same name, in spirit at least. I've seen Lewis's film only once, but enjoyed it very much. In Lewis's version, the professor is almost grotesquely awkward and nerdy before being transformed into the suave hipster Buddy Love. This remake adds the weight loss angle, although the formula still makes Buddy Love a confident, smooth-talking ladies' man. The coolest guy in the room.Everyone knows that Eddie Murphy is inside the Sherman Klump fatsuit, although the makeup and Murphy's Sherman persona are very effective. Most people also know that Murphy plays the other members of the overweight Klump family as well, Sherman's mother, father, grandmother, and brother. Again the makeup jobs are great and Murphy brings each character to life. The famous dinner table scenes are comedic tours de force. What many people may not know is that Eddie Murphy also plays the white Richard Simmons-like fitness guru Lance Perkins. I know some people assumed it really was Richard Simmons, but it's Eddie Murphy again in heavy makeup. THE NUTTY PROFESSOR showcases Murphy's great talent for playing different characters.Jada Pinkett, best known today as the wife/mother in the Will Smith entertainment clan, plays the fetching young colleague who admires Professor Klump's work and steals his heart. Klump sets her up with his slimmed-down alter ego Buddy Love, though it becomes clear that Buddy is a self-centered monster who lacks the sensitivity and kindness that the girl admires in the professor. Meanwhile Buddy plots to destroy Sherman once and for all and take over his body on a more permanent basis.Larry Miller plays the villainous college dean, James Coburn plays a millionaire interested in contributing to the school, and a young Dave Chappelle plays an obnoxious stand-up comic.The movie has a mainstream comedy feel, with some hammy performances and a rather low-brow sense of humor. (The Klump family relies rather heavily on fart jokes.) The film is dated by its mid-'90s fashions and music scene and the digital visual effects are noticeably phony (though still effective). But the 1960s version is hopelessly dated as a product of another era, too. Movies can't help it sometimes.THE NUTTY PROFESSOR is a top of the line comedy with some great work by the chameleonic Eddie Murphy. The movie succeeds because it's a comedy with a heart. We sympathize with Sherman Klump. He's shy, self-conscious about his appearance, embarrassed by his outspoken family. The film has a "be yourself" message. This Jekyll & Hyde fable is a great concept, first realized by comedy legend Jerry Lewis and later updated for a whole new audience. I'm surprised other IMDb users have been so harsh with their ratings of this film.

lisafordeay Like seriously this movie was so ******* hilarious I laughed at the fart jokes,and Eddie Murphy playing 7 CHARACTERS(he was the granny,the fitness instructor,the professor,Buddy Love,his mother,his father,and his brother,thanks to some special make up effects by Rick Baker who also did Susan Sarandon's transformation for Enchanted).The story is about a shy modest professor named Sherman Klumps,a man who is so shy to ask a girl on a date just because he is rather obese and his family are rather obese too. So since his a professor and all,he works on a formula that can turn obese people or obese animals into slim form. But when he tries it on himself he becomes the incredibly loud- mouthed,charming,womanizer,douch-bag Buddy Love. But when the girl that he fancy's(played by Will Smith's wife Jada Pinkett),he realizes that you have to accept who you are as a person no matter if your big or small.I know this film may offend people who are obese but for people who want a good laugh I recommend this film as I am a HUGE FAN of Eddie Murphy.Overall im giving it a 7/10