All in all, a pretty thin comedy.
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06/06/09
The Nutty Professor (1996)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:32
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Sweet-natured, university scientist Sherman Klump is understandably insecure about his immense weight, particularly after meeting pretty grad student Carla Purty. He is conducting experiments in... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Dave Chappelle
Director: Tom Shadyac
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Reviews for The Nutty Professor
The flick is sketch comedy spun out to feature length.
04/12/02
The movie offers the uplifting news bulletin that life is not about being happy with how much you weigh but with what kind of person you are. This is where the movie starts getting sloppy.
01/01/00
The Klumps is a bit like watching Ali just a couple of years before he called it quits -- occasionally still exciting to be around, but more often than not going through the motions, punching well below par.
01/01/00
the beginning of the end for Eddie Murphy
12/02/05
The Nutty Professor is, of course, a vanity piece, and it does serve notice that Murphy has lost none of his talent or ability. But it also demonstrates that he needs some guidance so he won't waste it on such lousy material.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/18/03
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07/04/05
No review available.
03/11/03
This movie is a little too interested in easy jokes to bother with having a heart.
01/01/00
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05/14/03
No review available.
01/04/03
The Nutty Professor offers some great sight gags and some hilarious slapstick, but even four writers were unable to find enough plot and dialogue to justify the visual effects.
01/01/00
Arguably better than the last five Eddie Murphy films taken together, The Nutty Professor still seems to be playing down to its audience much of the time.
01/01/00
It took four writers -- including Shadyac -- to adapt Lewis and Richmond's original Nutty Professor script, and they managed to remove what little dramatic impetus once existed.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/02/05
I do not recommend this lame picture to any age group.
01/01/00
The laugh-out-loud Eddie Murphy movie was fast becoming an artifact, like a can of New Coke or one of Cher's old noses. But The Nutty Professor marks his return to form.
01/01/00
Murphy turns the dual roles of a meek academician and his smarmy alter ego, Buddy Love, into an excoriating exercise in self-disclosure.
06/06/09
Delivers belly laughs as huge as Klump's waistline.
08/13/02
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