The Nutty Professor

[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.

Murphy's most assured work in some time.

This is good, seamless comedy.

Delivers belly laughs as huge as Klump's waistline.

This is a chance to see Murphy doing what he does best, and for that alone it's worth seeing.

This cruder, more sexualized update of the Jerry Lewis classic is also more consistently funny and imaginative.

It spends too much time trying to find laughter and not enough time speaking out against fat shaming and our weight-obsessed culture.

There's bold work here from Murphy on grand scale of thespian commitment, yet the feature's sense of humor is more dreary than playful, killing the potential of the premise with a constant display of bad taste.

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