This cannot measure up to the first film - the first with Eddie Murphy, that is, not the Jerry Lewis film from 1963. (Actually, this doesn't measure up to the Lewis film, either.)

For me, the biggest disappointment was the "family" scenes in which Murphy plays almost all the roles including old ladies. In the first film, some of that was absolutely hilarious, the highlight of the movie. Here, that isn't the case. Also, some of the dialog is almost impossible to decipher. It's also too raunchy and this film should have been rated "R." A PG-13 rating is ridiculous with all the emphasis on sex. I hate to see kids watch movies like this.

Still, this had a decent share of funny moments. Also, to its credit, it is not as mean-spirited as the first film turned out to be. Still, the bad outweighs the good. It needed to be funnier, and less raunchy.

I loved the first film, it was funny and touching, and I feel it is underrated. This sequel is inferior, but I have honestly seen much worse sequels than this. There are some things wrong, such as the weak plot, uneven script, a slow beginning and uneven direction, but it is very amusing regardless. Thanks to some great sight gags such as the Fountain of Youth and the giant sex-mad hamster, another brilliant performance from Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson very effective at playing it straight as the long suffering girlfriend. I also liked how it was filmed, and the score was lovely.

Overall, this is not a bad movie, not great, but not at all terrible.

6/10 Bethany Cox

Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is stressed by his impending marriage to Denise (Janet Jackson) and his alter-ego Buddy Love's threatened reemergence. He creates a new fountain of youth formula but it quickly fails. He extracts Buddy Love but in the process of separation, his mind starts to deteriorate. Buddy Love tries to take his youth formula and he hides it at home. Family members find the serum and start using it for their own benefit.

There is a charm with the original even in its juvenile nature. This one has no charms and wallows in juvenile humor. There are countless fart jokes. They are too many to count. It's weak humor but not irredeemable. That is until a giant hamster fires poop out of its butt. It's too stupid and not funny at all. It deteriorates from a bad sequel to a franchise killer. The story itself is clunky. There are multitudes of issues which leave this not salvageable.