Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Eddie Murphy | ... | Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Granny Klump / Mama Klump / Papa Klump / Young Papa Klump / Ernie Klump / Lance Perkins | |
Janet Jackson | ... | Denise | |
Larry Miller | ... | Dean Richmond | |
John Ales | ... | Jason | |
Richard Gant | ... | Denise's Father | |
Anna Maria Horsford | ... | Denise's Mother | |
Melinda McGraw | ... | Leanne Guilford | |
Jamal Mixon | ... | Ernie Klump, Jr. | |
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Gabriel Williams | ... | Isaac |
Chris Elliott | ... | Restaurant Manager | |
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Duffy Taylor | ... | Restaurant Trainee |
Earl Boen | ... | Dr. Knoll | |
Nikki Cox | ... | Bright Student | |
Freda Payne | ... | Claudine | |
Sylvester Jenkins | ... | Old Willie |
Professor Sherman Klump is getting married. And the Klump family could not be more delighted for him. But Buddy Love, his Mr. Hyde alter-ego from the first film, is back and trying to make it on his own. Buddy keeps resurfacing in untimely outbursts, and threatening the portly professor's marriage plans to colleague Denise Gaines. Utilizing Denise's cutting-edge DNA research, Sherman decides to rid himself of his monstrous nemesis -and his disruptive outbursts-once and for all by extracting Buddy's DNA from his system. But Buddy bursts full-bodied into Sherman's world and lays claim to the professor's astounding invention - a revolutionary youth serum. Desperate to keep it from Buddy, Sherman hides the serum in the Klump family home, thinking it will be safe. Buddy correctly divines where Sherman has placed the serum, but to get it, he has to deal with the entire Klump family first. Written by Anonymous
This cannot measure up to the first film - the first with Eddie Murphy, that is, not the Jerry Lewis film from 1963. (Actually, this doesn't measure up to the Lewis film, either.)
For me, the biggest disappointment was the "family" scenes in which Murphy plays almost all the roles including old ladies. In the first film, some of that was absolutely hilarious, the highlight of the movie. Here, that isn't the case. Also, some of the dialog is almost impossible to decipher. It's also too raunchy and this film should have been rated "R." A PG-13 rating is ridiculous with all the emphasis on sex. I hate to see kids watch movies like this.
Still, this had a decent share of funny moments. Also, to its credit, it is not as mean-spirited as the first film turned out to be. Still, the bad outweighs the good. It needed to be funnier, and less raunchy.