Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 1996 Comedy Romance
film : “The Nutty Professor”.
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The Story revolves around an overweight and clumsy science professor named sherman klump.
He is well liked by his students and peers but his clumsiness gets him into a lot of
trouble. One morning he walks to his work at the wellman
college to see it being overrun by more than 5000 hamsters. The infestation grows so bad
that the rodents start getting inside people's pants and into their sandwiches causing chaos
everywhere. The animals are lab hamsters who were somehow let free. On investigating it
is discovered that the previous day sherman's protruding belly hit a button that opened
the cages without him knowing. When the problem is contained Sherman goes to his favorite
experimental hamster Shelly who is also overweight. Sherman and his team have been experimenting
with a formula that reconstructs the dna of an obese person to make them lose weight easily
and quickly. The serum was used on Shelley and the results say that the hamster lost
three ounces in only a day, This proves the efficiency of the product to find out more
about its nature. Sherman's lab assistant Jason suggests increasing the amount Shelley
is fed, but Sherman thinks it could be dangerous for the animal.
After that he is called to the Dean's office to discuss the incident with the hamsters.
Sherman is informed that because of the incident the science department has lost most of its
funding. A man named Harlan is the school's last remaining alumnus who is planning to
donate 10 million dollars to the college. The Dean warns him to be careful with his
experiments because they are not in the position to lose their last alumnus.
During class Sherman's protruding belly rubs off the board much to his students amusement
he notices it and laughs with them. After that a new teacher named Miss Carla comes
to greet him. She is a chemistry graduate teaching a class across the hall. Sherman
is instantly smitten by her beauty and kindness. She reveals she is a huge fan of his work
and has always wanted to meet him. Later that day Sherman meets his family for
dinner all of whom are overweight. He recognizes that they have a problem but his father takes
pride in being fat and unhealthy. After noticing Sherman takes small amounts of food from the
table his father claims that he can do everything in the world but losing weight is not one
of them. The man also has a very bad habit of randomly passing gas to the point where
he defecates himself although sherman finds it absolutely disgusting, his father does
the procedure religiously and in front of his family. When he leaves to clean his pants
Sherman's mother Anna senses that he is hurt by his father's words. She makes him feel
better by declaring that he is beautiful inside out. Sherman is motivated by her words to
ask Miss Carla out on a date. Right after he goes to her house to do so
and to his surprise she accepts immediately, they decide to go to a place named The Scream
on friday. Sherman returns home with the biggest smile on his face he dances around overjoyed
about finally landing a date with someone he likes. While watching tv he falls asleep
and dreams of making out with Carla on a beach, but while they are at it she gets buried in
the sand by his weight. Sherman wakes up in horror to the host of the tv show yelling
yes i can he repeats the words and is motivated to lose weight one way or the other.
For the next few days leading up to the date Sherman goes to Zumba classes the gym and
acupuncture sessions, but he still has a lot of work to do to reach his ultimate goal.
The couple goes to a club on friday and has a great time for the first half of the date,
but then an insult comic named Reggie comes to the stage for a stand-up comedy show he
makes fun of the audience's appearance one after another. When he gets to Sherman the
comedian gets an easy target. He drags Sherman down to filth with his insults so much so
that Sherman gets teary after the performance. Following the awful date Sherman takes Carla
home to make him feel better she tells him that he is a brilliant man sherman thanks
her and returns home disheartened. Alone and depressed he starts to binge on junk food
disregarding all the progress he has made in the gym for the past week. Eventually he
dozes off and has a nightmare about having a heart attack . On the hospital bed he grows
into a giant and breaks out into the world. His single fart destroys the city and wakes
him up from the nightmare. Sherman now has had enough of his obesity he knows that if
he relies on exercise and healthy food he will give in to the temptation every time.
So he decides to use his lab serum on himself. At midnight he goes to the lab prepares the
medicine and injects himself with it. Initially the experiment is a disaster as the computer
glitches and his heart rate increases, When Sherman passes out a message displays on the
screen saying that the dna reconstruction was a success.
The next morning Sherman wakes up and is startled when he looks in the mirror. He has become
a fit young man unlike himself from the previous night. He almost cries on seeing that he went
from cup C to cup A and cannot believe his eyes to see his genitals for the first time
in years. Unable to control his joy he runs outside shouting to the world to look at him.
The first place he goes is the shopping mall Spandex section. He wears clothes that complement
his body and models in front of the mirror. The following day he is working in the lab
when Carla comes looking for Sherman. She doesn't recognize him because of obvious reasons.
Sherman also doesn't want her to look at him as the old overweight person that he was,
hence he invents a random name Buddy Love and introduces himself as a lab assistant.
He also flirts with her and asks her out on a date to the club. Initially Carla is reluctant
but she agrees to go when he persists. As they talk Sherman's fingers start to swell
indicating that he's about to retransform to his older self. He quickly excuses himself,
before she catches him blowing up. Later Carla meets Sherman and tells him about Buddy's
proposal. Sherman encourages her to go and pitches on how good of a man buddy is.
In the following scene Buddy arrives at the club in a sports car, that he would have never
been able to fit in prior to the transformation. He and Carla enter the club together. As per
usual Reggie is welcomed to the stage for a show, this time a confident Buddy throws
insults back at the comedian giving him a taste of his own medicine. By the end of the
night they get into a yo mama joke battle that Buddy wins. An enraged Reggie tries to
attack him for stealing the show but is in turn slammed into the piano the crowd cheers
for buddy along with unimpressed carla they share a kiss and a romantic moment together
but right after Buddy's bottom lip starts to swell. He makes an excuse about it being
an allergic reaction and rushes outside. At the same time Sherman's lab assistant Jason
happens to be at the bar. He notices a waiter handling Sherman's card, but is told that
the card belongs to Buddy. He assumes that Buddy stole the professor's card and follows
him to his car. To Jason's surprise he catches Sherman mid-transformation with a heavily
swollen lip and expanding legs. When he is fully transformed the assistant realizes what
is going on. Later Sherman has to be cut out of the car when he becomes too big to use
the door. The next morning Sherman is very late for
a class because of an uneventful night all the students have already left but an angry
Dean is waiting for him. He confronts Sherman about the sports car, which Buddy bought on
Sherman's faculty account. The Dean forgives him for the extravagant spend but threatens
to strangle him to death if he messes up one more time. He has set up a meeting between
Sherman and the college's alumnus Hartley. Sherman has to convince Hartley to fund the
weight loss serum project that he is working on.
Later Sherman meets carla and asks her about the date with Buddy. She seems to be confused
if she likes him and is unsettled by his behavior. Sherman dismisses the conversation and asks
her out on a second date to dinner with his family. Then She happily agrees and meets
them all at his parents house. The family asks her intrusive questions about their relationship,
Most of it relating to sex. Carla is visibly uncomfortable which adds up when Sherman's
father repeatedly farts. After the disastrous dinner Sherman walks Carla home and apologizes
on behalf of his family. Carla wants to know more about Buddy and is hoping that he will
call her back. Sherman realizes that he can only be with her as Buddy and transforms into
him once again. His assistant jason is not happy about the transformation. Every time
Sherman takes the serum Buddy's testosterone level rises exponentially making him rowdy
unlike Sherman. If this continues for a long time Buddy might take over Sherman's body
as a new man. Jason tries to stop him but Buddy tricks him and runs away.
That night he lands a date with Carla yet again, and takes her to a hotel at the same
hotel Harlan is waiting for him to present the weight loss serum idea. For the sake of
the college Carla wants him to take Sherman's place and pitch the idea to the alumnus. Buddy
does as told and explains the serum to him by sexualizing the girls at the restaurant
and flirting with them. He takes all the credit for Sherman's work which Carla thinks is outrageous,
but he doesn't care about what she thinks because all he wants is to be with a girl.
Carla storms off after he dismisses her for the other girls .The Dean gives Sherman's
position to Buddy and asks him to give a final demonstration for Harlan at the alumni ball
the following night. Buddy spends the rest of the night wildly
partying with several women, by the morning he is transferred to Sherman and is confused
as to how he is with the women on the bed. Buddy's presence is harming Sherman's memory
and rationality, almost as if he has a multiple personality disorder. Carla arrives shortly
thereafter and finds sherman with the girls. She thinks Sherman is just as unfaithful as
Buddy to the extent that the two of them share women. Following that Sherman goes to the
office to find out that The Dean has fired him and given his position to his alter ego
Buddy. Sherman doesn't know what he should do next.
At home he accidentally activates the VCR and finds out that Buddy has left a message
for him last night. In the message he taunts Sherman about his boring life and urges him
to take the serum and change himself forever. The taunt only motivates him to destroy the
serum altogether and never let Buddy surface again. He and Jason go to the lab and start
destroying all the serum samples. Sherman takes a sip from a diet drink unaware that
Buddy had filled it with the serum Knowing that he could be in danger of vanishing, because
of the trick Sherman turns into buddy again and runs to the alumni ball. After he leaves
Jason sees the computer flashing a warning message that says Buddy's testosterone levels
are at a lethal high. If he takes the serum again he may kill Sherman altogether and Buddy
will permanently exist in his place. Meanwhile, Buddy makes a grand entrance to
the ball catching everyone's attention. He immediately begins to demonstrate the effects
of the serum to the stunned audience, his half-bulked-up body surprises everyone. As
he is about to drink the second dose of serum to end Sherman forever, Jason arrives and
stops him. Buddy's arm suddenly bulks up, and tries to choke himself. It turns out that
the arm is Sherman fighting for the rights to his own body. Eventually, Buddy is unable
to take the serum on time and transforms back into Sherman. Everyone in the audience, including
Carla and his parents, is in shock. Sherman explains that the experiment was initiated
to help people, but it turned into something that it shouldn't have. He has come to terms
with the fact that he should accept himself whilst trying to work harder for a healthier
body. Thinking that he has been a disappointment to everyone, he attempts to leave but is stopped
by Carla. She asks him to a dance proving that she liked him for his inner self, not
his body; in the last scene, we see them dancing all night. Hartley decides to give Sherman
the donation claiming that he was touched by his speech, and although the experiment
failed, he is a brilliant scientist.
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