Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Eight different characters, all played by Murphy, all convincing, each with its own personality. This is not just a stunt. It is some kind of brilliance.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

It's a half-life better than Martin Lawrence treading similar, simpler water in "Big Momma's House."

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

Frequently hilarious.

USA Today Mike Clark

When have we seen the same performer playing both parts in a sexual situation? It happens here, not once but twice.

TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly

Murphy still knows how to please a crowd.

Film.com Gemma Files

Nothing less than stunning: a slapstick ballet of choreographed buffoonery.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

This is a parlor trick, but it's a hell of a good one.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Too often, the movie is more forced and frantic than actually funny.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Murphy is remarkably convincing -- even endearing -- as each of the characters.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Half a movie at best. The broad humor at times derails Mr. Murphy's performances, but the movie provides a vehicle for him to display his reach.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

It's just like Paul McCartney's first solo album after the Beatles broke up; he played all the instruments himself -- because he could.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Yes, bestiality in a PG-13 movie. It's the end of life as we know it.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

Defiantly sophomoric, often hilarious and crude as all get-out.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

Character-rich, but plot-poor.

Miami Herald Charles Savage

Has some very funny moments, it is weighed down by gooey sentimentality.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

The bloom is off the rose due to cynical rehash.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The "Citizen Kane" of flatulence.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

He (Murphy) can't make chicken a la king from the chicken manure supplied by the writers.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

This inferior sequel is doomed by a lousy - and extremely vulgar - script.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

An amazing technical accomplishment that never becomes a coherent movie.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Sporadically funny, the film seems weighted down, literally, with bulging, bulbous Murphys flatulating endlessly.

Variety Joe Leydon

Be prepared to laugh less at a lot more of the same thing in this overbearing but underwhelming sequel.

Film.com Robert Horton

Half vulgar and funny, half tedious and cloying; despite the shameless laughs, it's still a disappointment.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The star's over-the-top energy isn't enough to make this hopelessly vulgar, numbingly repetitious farce worth watching.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

An annoying, unclever, unlikable movie.

Newsweek David Ansen

What was a ragged but often hilarious charmer has been genetically altered into a deafening and desperate mutant.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Wastes most of its 110 minutes making impotent jokes about male sexual behavior and the repugnance of old women.

Village Voice Brian Parks

Suffers from a serious case of sophomore slump.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

It will linger like a foul odor or the taste of tinfoil between the teeth.

Film.com John Hartl

Utterly unnecessary sequel.