Review – The Nutty Professor

This semi-remake of the famous Jerry Lewis movie is primarily an Eddie Murphy vehicle. That aside, it has a couple of amusing moments. When first released, the hype was heavy on a couple of scenes in which Murphy plays not only the title character but almost his entire family (five characters in all) at once, dysfunctional dinner courtesy the magic of Hollywood. The other high point is a little more subtle: this is one of the few movies ever to come out of Tinseltown that treats fat people like they have any feelings at all. Murphy actually does a reasonably good job playing our rotund hero, thanks at least in part to some fairly convincing makeup by Rick Baker. Mildly amusing