NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS (2000) 1/2* Eddie Murphy has been disgusting, but he's never been this disgusting, or at least this disgusting without any redeeming qualifies. Eddie's been in some very bad movies, but nothing nearly this terrible. The thing about gross is that the caliber of wit has to transcend the reflexive disgust. What we get here is a lobotomy victim with additional psychological difficulties including age regression and functional degeneration trying to mimic the material from Eddie Murphy Raw in a rarely cleaned sanitarium slobborium. But the worst part is probably Janet Jackson. Not just that she looks like she's had plastic surgery the point of which was apparently to make her look like a perverted and gender-confused boy, or that she can't act, or that she has the presence of a bewarted golf club...no, yeah, maybe that last was the worst of it, but I'm not sure and it's like the Medusa, you don't want to look too long. So Eddie spends nearly the entire film dressed up to pretend that he weighs 400 pounds, and making fat jokes about himself. And farting and pooh-pooh and pee-pee jokes. When the suave and debonair altar-ego-Buddy Love-shows up he's lost all sense of charm or humor (sound familiar?), and is instead bitter and malevolent, with the only slightly redeeming characteristics of a dog. Yes, a dog. If you like Eddie Murphy, or you've ever liked or even admired Eddie Murphy, do the man a favor and skip this one.
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