Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn
For Professor Sherman Klump, being the big man on campus wasn't all it's cracked up to be. His body was disproportionate. His family was dysfunctional. And his love life was disastrous. Having tried e...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 20, 1998
Stats: 15,304 reviews
oh look, its Eddie Murphy in a fat suit! Why doesn?t he just become fat and have done with it, it would save him a lot of time!
This really is Eddie Murphy doing what Eddie Murphy does best. A funny family film with a great underlying message that children really seem to pick up. Never really fancied the follow up dvd 'The Klumps' but I had forgotten how funny this film was.
"Funny fat black person who's really a skinny black person in a funny fat black person suit"
A 400-pound brilliant genetics Professor named Sherman Klumps (Eddie Murphy) meets the lovely chemistry grad student named Miss Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett-Smith) is teaching a class across the hall. When Sherman is falling in love with her? Sherman loses 250 pounds with his new bo...( read more)
some roles of murphy were over portrayed. its alright though.makes you laugh all the same
The movie succeeds in two different ways: It's sweet and good-hearted, and then again it's raucous slapstick and bathroom humor. full review
I've heard of dreadlocks but shitlocks.
I don't no whether to smile at y or kick a field goal!
lol brilliant.
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