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The Nutty Professor

1996, Movie, PG-13, 95 mins

The Nutty Professor: Review

NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE
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This remake of Jerry Lewis's 1963 Jekyll and Hyde comedy is slackly directed and overloaded with flatulence jokes. Still, like Lewis before him, Eddie Murphy turns the dual roles of a meek academician and his smarmy alter ego, Buddy Love, into an excoriating exercise in self-disclosure. Professor Sherman Klump is a sweet, brainy fat man whose life is a series of small but bitter humiliations. When his wayward posterior trips the switch that unleashes thousands of lab hamsters, the only one that doesn't escape is the roly-poly star of Klump's experiments in weight control through DNA restructuring. Klump decides to test the formula on himself after a disastrous date with Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett), during which he's humiliated by a vicious insult comedian. Enter Buddy Love, a vulgar, strutting sleaze with a smooth line in bullying repartee and a world-class case of testosterone poisoning. Sound familiar? Murphy plays a bravura total of seven roles -- including a dead-on imitation of Richard Simmons -- but Love is the keeper, the demonic embodiment of the comic's barely concealed rage. leave a comment
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