Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
The Klumps leans hard into the family dinner table chaos and Eddie Murphy's multi-role performance, which remains an impressive physical and comedic feat, but the film is largely a retread of the first film's premise. The plot is thin and meandering, relying on gross-out humor and Buddy Love antics rather than story substance. Murphy's ability to inhabit multiple distinct Klump family members is genuinely entertaining and elevates the acting score, but the cinematography is functional at best. Novelty is low — it recycles the split-personality formula from the original without adding meaningful new dimensions. The ending resolves predictably with little emotional payoff.