Movie Description Eddie Murphy stars as a grossly overweight chemistry professor in this update of the classic 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy. Eager to reinvent himself and to ease his loneliness, the professor develops a potion that magically transforms him into a lean, mean, sex machine, capable of seducing any woman in sight, but he loses his niceness along the way. Academy Award Nominations: Best Makeup.
| Credits | | Cast: | Dave Chappelle, Jada Pinkett Smith, John Ales |
Editorial Reviews "...Murphy's portrayal of Sherman Klump is surprisingly warm and touching..." Sight and Sound - p.49 - Philip Kemp (10/01/1996)
"...A remake that improves upon the original....[A] career-reviving smash [for Murphy]....A sweet spirit..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly - pp.77-9 - Bruce Fretts (11/08/1996)
"...A surprisingly funny comedy and respectable remake..." USA Today - p.1D - Mike Clark
"...Apt and comic....Combining the riotously funny and the sweetly sentimental....Miller is at his obsequious best....[Pinkett] demonstrates that her range ranks her among the most versatile young performers in movies..." Variety - Leonard Klady (06/24/1996)
"...[Murphy's] back with exuberance and energy....He's very good. And the movie succeeds in two different ways: It's sweet and good-hearted, and then again it's raucous slapstick and bathroom humor..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (06/28/1996)
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