Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is stressed by his impending marriage to Denise (Janet Jackson) and his alter-ego Buddy Love's threatened reemergence. He creates a new fountain of youth formula but it quickly fails. He extracts Buddy Love but in the process of separation, his mind starts to deteriorate. Buddy Love tries to take his youth formula and he hides it at home. Family members find the serum and start using it for their own benefit.There is a charm with the original even in its juvenile nature. This one has no charms and wallows in juvenile humor. There are countless fart jokes. They are too many to count. It's weak humor but not irredeemable. That is until a giant hamster fires poop out of its butt. It's too stupid and not funny at all. It deteriorates from a bad sequel to a franchise killer. The story itself is clunky. There are multitudes of issues which leave this not salvageable.

Released in 2000 and directed by Peter Segal, "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" brings back Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, grossly overweight professor with a good heart, who's dating a new girl (Janet Jackson) and still battling with his thin, charismatic alter ego, Buddy Love (also Murphy), although the way Buddy manifests is different. Larry Miller is on hand as the dean of the university while Melinda McGraw plays a representative of a company interested in purchasing a youth-giving potion. Like the first movie, Murphy plays all the adult Klump members (Granny, Mama, Papa and Ernie).Janet is a superb replacement for Jada Pinkett Smith as Sherman's girlfriend and, like the first film, Sherman is a sympathetic character while Buddy Love is charismatic. I might be in the minority, but I wasn't a fan of the two Klump dinner table scenes in the 1996 movie, which explains why I feel this sequel is a drop in quality: There are too many tasteless scenes with the Klumps – not to mention unnecessarily crude scenes in general – and not enough with the best characters, Sherman and Buddy Love. Buddy in particular is mysteriously absent much of the time, which is inexplicable in that he was one of the comedic highlights of the earlier movie.The way Eddie plays all the different characters is genius and well-executed, but the film's simply not as funny as the first one, unless you favor flatulence jokes and vulgar humor in general. The first movie had both, but there's more of it here and less of what was good.The movie runs 106 minutes and was shot mostly in the Los Angeles area, but also Moore's Crossroads, South Carolina (presumably the opening church scene).GRADE: C

Unlike most people who use different genres as a means of negatively bashing the movie. I mean this in the utmost respect. When you ignore the vulgarity and the other things, both Klumps and the first movie are famous for, you get a movie about two sides of one persona at war with each other and the other side pulling no stops to destroy each other. In the first movie, Buddy was just another part of Sherman's persona, but now that he's been unleashed into the world with none of Sherman's love and common sense to restrain him he becomes a deranged lunatic. He even gives De Niro a run for his money when parodying the Cape Fear Theater scene.

I loved the first film, it was funny and touching, and I feel it is underrated. This sequel is inferior, but I have honestly seen much worse sequels than this. There are some things wrong, such as the weak plot, uneven script, a slow beginning and uneven direction, but it is very amusing regardless. Thanks to some great sight gags such as the Fountain of Youth and the giant sex-mad hamster, another brilliant performance from Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson very effective at playing it straight as the long suffering girlfriend. I also liked how it was filmed, and the score was lovely.Overall, this is not a bad movie, not great, but not at all terrible.6/10 Bethany Cox