Parents' Guide to The Nutty Professor

Parents need to know that The Nutty Professor is a comedy remake of Jerry Lewis' 1963 original and stars Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, a kindhearted college professor whose experimental weight-loss formula turns him into arrogant alter ego Buddy Love. The film relies on fatphobic humor, and actors wear fat suits. Violence includes a brief fistfight and a character flipping another onto his back, slamming his head against a piano, crushing his fingers, and throwing him inside the instrument (no blood is shown). There are recurring fart jokes, including one that implies soiling. Several cruel gags mock the main character's weight, such as a beach kiss that makes his partner sink into the sand, and others laughing or calling him "fata--." One scene implies that a man has slept with three women after they're shown in his bedroom the next morning. A gag involves a hamster crawling into a man's pants, creating the illusion of an erection, and there are several kissing scenes and stand-up jokes about penises, breasts, and oral sex. Language includes the "N" word used by Black characters, plus "s--t," "damn," "hell," "t--ties," "bitch," and "ass." People drink heavily at parties and act drunk.

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