The Nutty Professor: Critic Reviews

Murphy proves himself a surprisingly strong actor here, playing Sherman with sweetness and poignancy, not to mention loads of funny weight-related humor.

At long last again, an Eddie Murphy movie has its plug in the socket.

This is good, seamless comedy.

An uneven but hilarious remake.

The movie succeeds in two different ways: It's sweet and good-hearted, and then again it's raucous slapstick and bathroom humor.

Murphy outdoes himself by bringing pathos as well as sweetness to the character, arguably making him a viable update of Lewis's bucktoothed Julius Kelp.

The Nutty Professor isn't much of a movie, but it's certainly a prime showcase for Eddie Murphy's enormous talent.

Murphy's most assured work in some time.

The flick is sketch comedy spun out to feature length.

This movie is a little too interested in easy jokes to bother with having a heart.

[Murphy] is able to invest his Professor Klump with an endearing dignity, give his lounge lizard alter ego, Buddy Love, an alligator's bite and then go on from there to play Klump's grandma. Also his mother, father and brother.

Eddie Murphy is funny again. Sadly, he lacks the guts to follow through on the cathartic self-satire that gives the film its distinction.

Messy, raucous, crude and undisciplined though this remake of the 1963 Jerry Lewis vehicle is, it also creates more laughter (and poignancy) than any Eddie Murphy movie has in quite some time.

A dumb, offensive movie--a good one to skip.

Murphy turns the dual roles of a meek academician and his smarmy alter ego, Buddy Love, into an excoriating exercise in self-disclosure.

All in all, a pretty thin comedy.

the beginning of the end for Eddie Murphy

Murphy finally revives his considerable comedic gifts for this crowd-pleaser.

Welcome back (I hope), Eddie Murphy.

The comic maelstrom known as Eddie Murphy is finally back.

Funny, vulgar Eddie Murphy--his best to date.