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Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Sherman Klump is back and getting married to teaching colleague Denise Gaines. Unfortunately, destructive doppelganger Buddy Love is back, too. And he's after a revolutionary youth serum the professor has created.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, Richard Gant, Melinda McGrawComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Eddie Murphy is a talented man, even at any size or even tasked with playing a man or woman. In Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, the sequel to the popular fat-guy-shrinks-down-thanks-to-science Comedy The Nutty Professor (which was a re-imagining of the classic 1963 film of the same name), Murphy plays himself, a fatter version of himself, several obese characters of both genders, and even takes a shot at playing characters of varying ages, attitudes, and boisterousness. The movie invents a story that pits the obese Sherman against his svelte alter-ego Buddy Love, but the story proper is of little concern against the raucous character beats that flow freely anytime when one, or several, or even all of Murphy's characters appear and interact on the screen.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps' 1080p presentation isn't half-bad. Image clarity is impressive and the picture is steadily sharp and revealing. Details never falter, never suffer from artificial smoothness or even excess flatness. Basic skin and clothing complexities more than satisfy, and even the 1080p resolution can't reveal the makeup seams on various characters. That's just another feather in the cap for the movie's talented makeup artists. Grain is retained and fairly organic, yielding a pleasantly impressive filmic image. Sharp details and clarity extend well into backgrounds across various locations, whether restaurants or science laboratories. Colors appear rich and well saturated across a variety of clothing shades and environmental supports, including a variety of foods seen during the restaurant scene in chapter two. Black levels aren't disruptive and skin tones appear true, whether natural or applied on prosthetics. The image does suffer from the occasional speckle but print wear only truly spikes in a handful of shots.
The film's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack is typical of the era from which it hails: it's large and intense, a bit over-engineered and over-exaggerated, but a good bit of listening fun all the same. Surrounds engage with plenty of fun effects, such as a piece of silverware that whirls through the stage into the rear right channel in chapter two in the film's buffet sequence. A large fireball bursts a few minutes later with equal intensity, followed by some heightened patron background chatter in the restaurant. Thunder rolls prominently through the rears in chapter three, and minutes later the effect becomes more intense and spacious in a Frankenstein-esque sort of moment, complete with potent, surround-heavy music. Lighter atmospherics are no less impressively enveloping, such as swampy ambience in chapter four. These are just some early film examples of the movie's sonic credentials. The track is large and in-charge and relentless when the opportunities for intensive sounds present themselves. Dialogue is loud but nicely defined and grounded in the front-center. This one's just a load of listening fun, slightly crude it may sometimes be.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps contains a large assortment of vintage content. No top menu is included. All extras must be accessed in-film
via the popup menu. With this much content, the crude setup is just too unwieldy. No DVD or digital versions are included. The release does not ship
with a slipcover.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps patches together a story that allows Murphy to work his magic. The film rightly, and largely, uses it as a comedic propellant and isn't above filling time with screen-filling Klumps in scenes that are tangentially, or not at all, related to the primary story. Murphy shines in extreme duty and, while there are a couple of common threads that keep the characters closely-knit, does very well to maintain each personality throughout. The movie, then, isn't forgettable, but audiences should go in with the idea that Murphy and the Klumps come first and the ragtag story comes a distant second (maybe even third since Janet Jackson also graces the screen). Universal's Blu-ray brings over a bunch of vintage extras and delivers surprisingly solid video and audio. Recommended.
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