Very well executed

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Contin you know my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to Nutty Professor (1996)Plot In A Paragraph: In a depressed state, kind but overweight professor Sherman Klump (Murphy) takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.I remember Reading about this being made and thinking there was no way this remake with Murphy could be a hit, certainly not one with him wearing a fat suit. I promptly dismissed it, as what would be another Murphy flop. After years in a career slump, I was not alone. Murphy said "I had a bunch of movies that didn't work. People were saying, "Eddie's no good," so I was like, "Not good? Let me show you what I can f***ing do. It seems every five or six years, you have to do something to remind them that they like you."Murphy, is energised for the first time in years. Using this passion, he is seriously back on track with a lot of energy, missing in so much of his work the last couple of years. The movie is a remake of the Jerry Lewis movie, but I'd say it's more inspired by, than an actual remake of the 1963 classic. This version follows the broad outlines of the Lewis film, with one inspired addition, it makes him fat!! Opening the door for a lot more physical comedy.This is Murphy's best performance and movie since Beverly Hills Cop. Every adult member of the Klump family is played by Murphy. He has always been good at this type of thing, and here it really works (even if fart humour is not your thing) Sherman is one of his most likable characters, good-hearted, sympathetic and funny. When Sherman turns into Buddy Love, the character resembles Murphy's own on stage act. There is a lot of Buddy Love in the Eddie Murphy screen persona. Maybe too much. And not enough Sherman Klump. The Nutty Professor shows him back on track.Murphy was nominated a Golden Globe for the fourth time. His first since Beverly Hills Cop (14 years earlier) More importantly, it was a hit at the box office. The Nutty Professor grossed $128 Million at the domestic box office to end 1996 as the 8th highest grossing movie of the year. The first time Murphy had a $100 million grosser and a movie in the top 10 highest grossers of the year in 8 years. The comeback was on.

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.

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.

You know many films that come out today don't have a good moral to the story. Many of today's films lack a good message and are more about style then substance. You know those films with nothing but sex and violence; nothing good but the special effects that are really not so special anymore. This film however was made soon before the film industry went on it's downward spiral.Poor Sherman Klump. He works as a professor at a local college and he is looking for a way to lose weight. He comes up with a solution. A liquid that will progressively bring his weight down slowly. One day he meets a woman named Carla and he falls hard for her. He decides to take her out for a date. They end up at a Comedy Club called The Scream. While there they enjoy an evening of music. At some point however a heckler named Reggie who takes people from the audience and makes fun of their looks. Unfortunately Sherman knows whats going on and decides to get up and leave however the spotlight finds his butt and Reggie goes all out with his fat jokes. Sherman is saddened and goes home upset. He has a dream where he becomes really fat. Sherman wakes up frightened and decides that he is going to become thin once and for all. He goes to his lab and takes some of the solution. He ends up passing out and in the morning he wakes up super thin. This is where his life will take a serious turn for the worse. He decides that he is going to take the solution to take out Carla and try to impress her as an alias under Buddy Love. Carla likes him at first but one problem Sherman has is that the solution wears off after awhile and he has to take more to stay in his thin Buddy form. Another drawback of the solution is that his testosterone levels go through the roof when he takes it.Sherman is being overcome by his new counterpart Buddy and Buddy wants to take all the credit for the professors solution. Professor Klump is able to beat Buddy and admits to everyone that he was so obsessed with losing weight and fitting in that he lost track of what he really wanted to do which was to help people. Carla had no problem with Sherman even while he was fat and she really liked him for who he was.The Nutty Professor has some potty humor in it but it still has a great message. Be happy with who you are. Don't let the jerks get you down. I have to agree that fat people are one of the most made fun of today along with people gays. When will people start to become more caring about people's real beauty and stop worrying about self image? We need more movies like this today. Our society is becoming more concerned with looks more and more everyday. Even young girls are being targeted. This is a movie that shows where the real beauty is; inside and not out.