The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy
Director: Tom Shadyac

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Eddie Murphy's 1996 version of Jerry Lewis's 1963 classic comedy is a rare success as remakes go, an opportunity to tinker with an original concept without losing the thread of what made Lewis's film so good. Murphy's take on Lewis's Sherman Klump character is that he is a grossly obese science professor who warms to a beautiful teaching assistant (Jada Pinkett) and decides, out of frustration with his weight, to alter his DNA and become thin and handsome. The key to the film is Murphy's remarkable performance as the portly Klump, a genuinely fine and sensitive acting job (Murphy was robbed of an Oscar nomination). But it doesn't stop there: the comic dons tons of padding and make-up to play all the members of Klump's family in the film's most outrageous (some might call it offensive) scene, set at a dinner table. Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) directs a very sharp script.
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Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got ahold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy.

 

 

 

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