The Nutty Professor
- cosy
- brisk
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Our read · The Nutty Professor (1963) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of The Nutty Professor
What watching it is actually like.
“You want classic Jerry Lewis slapstick with a Jekyll-and-Hyde campus makeover.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if broad sixties physical comedy and awkward nerd humiliation grate on you.
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