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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Universal Pictures

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 38 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.2 out of 10
based on 34 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude humor and sex-related material

Starring Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, and John Ales

A University Professor (Jackson) becomes the love interest of Klump (Murphy). Her research is helpful to Klump when his alter ego Buddy Love threatens their romance.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Steve Oedekerk (story)
Barry W. Blaustein (also story)
David Sheffield (also story)
Paul Weitz
 
DIRECTED BY: Peter Segal  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 5, 2000 
Video: December 5, 2000 
Theatrical: July 28, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
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.
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75
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
It's a half-life better than Martin Lawrence treading similar, simpler water in "Big Momma's House."
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Frequently hilarious.
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75
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.
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70
TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly
Murphy still knows how to please a crowd.
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70
Film.com Gemma Files
Nothing less than stunning: a slapstick ballet of choreographed buffoonery.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.
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60
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This is a parlor trick, but it's a hell of a good one.
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60
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Too often, the movie is more forced and frantic than actually funny.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Murphy is remarkably convincing -- even endearing -- as each of the characters.
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50
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.
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50
Boston Globe Jay Carr
There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on.
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50
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.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Yes, bestiality in a PG-13 movie. It's the end of life as we know it.
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50
Washington Post Rita Kempley
Defiantly sophomoric, often hilarious and crude as all get-out.
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50
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Character-rich, but plot-poor.
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50
Miami Herald Charles Savage
Has some very funny moments, it is weighed down by gooey sentimentality.
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50
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
The bloom is off the rose due to cynical rehash.
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40
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The "Citizen Kane" of flatulence.
38
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
He (Murphy) can't make chicken a la king from the chicken manure supplied by the writers.
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38
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
This inferior sequel is doomed by a lousy - and extremely vulgar - script.
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30
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
An amazing technical accomplishment that never becomes a coherent movie.
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30
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Sporadically funny, the film seems weighted down, literally, with bulging, bulbous Murphys flatulating endlessly.
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30
Variety Joe Leydon
Be prepared to laugh less at a lot more of the same thing in this overbearing but underwhelming sequel.
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30
Film.com Robert Horton
Half vulgar and funny, half tedious and cloying; despite the shameless laughs, it's still a disappointment.
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25
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.
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25
Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
An annoying, unclever, unlikable movie.
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20
Newsweek David Ansen
What was a ragged but often hilarious charmer has been genetically altered into a deafening and desperate mutant.
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20
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Wastes most of its 110 minutes making impotent jokes about male sexual behavior and the repugnance of old women.
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20
Village Voice Brian Parks
Suffers from a serious case of sophomore slump.
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10
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.
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10
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
It will linger like a foul odor or the taste of tinfoil between the teeth.
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10
Film.com John Hartl
Utterly unnecessary sequel.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Pat C. gave it a 3:
There will never be integration as long as African Americans insist in maintaining their differences from the rest of us in such a fashion. So alien one would seek the solace of the familiar in Hindu film or Peking opera. A total insult to the humanity and intelligence of black folk. Other than that I thought it was great. It's the kind of movie Ebert gives a better mark than other critics - a word to the wise is sufficient. Although Murphy plays all the Klump roles (only the grandmother is believable), he demonstrates wisdom for the ages by not calling the film, "Being Eddie Murphy." A must see for the development-arrested. Belated 3 points for creativity.

Eileen gave it a 1:
It was awful.

Mike H. gave it a 7:
While not quite up to the standard of the original, I can't help but wonder that if this one had come first, would most critics praise it the way they talked about its progenitor.

Charles Y. gave it a 5:
Eddie Murphy is excellent as Professor Klump but some of the other characters he plays are hard to watch.

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