Nutty Professor

Pros: excellent Lewis feature
Cons: Well, it is Jerry Lewis

A kid’s movie for grownups Lewis functioned as writer/director and actor in one of his best productions. The additions on the DVD with interviews with the director as well as some outtakes and screen tests is an enlightening view of the man who ...

Pros: a tight, watchable, unforgetable movie
Cons: as Leonard Maltin says, more interesting than funny, and dated

Give me an alaskan polar bear heater! Ooooh, that's not bad!

Well, okay, Jerry Lewis. Okay, okay, Jerry Lewis. Okay, the glasses and the buck teeth and the schtick. But you look at the arc of Jerry's career after Dean, and you get six or...

Pros: Jerry Lewis in top form, nostalgia value, interesting comparision to remakes
Cons: Somewhat outdated gags and milieu

What I noted most about this minor classic was that it's less
based around slapstick and more character-centered than other
Jerry Lewis vehicles that come to mind. Grotesque false teeth and
Moe Howard hair enables Lewis to play the clumsy...

Pros: Jerry's is funnier, smoother and just a kick in the head
Cons: Murphy's is a fart that won't come out

The original Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis will always outshine the new one with Eddie Murphy. Eddie doesn't have the timing or the class or the slapstick that Jerry will always have no matter how many years Eddie is in movies. Eddie is just not cut...

Pros: laughter is heard for blocks around
Cons: none

Jerry Lewis + Nutty Professor = The Funniest Movie in the world!

My favorite movie growing up was Nutty Professor. I would plop my rear in front of the tv and watch this movie without a blink of an eye.
I was dearly in love with Jerry...