Nutty Professor II: The Klumps story
After finding success with a DNA restructuring formula in the first film, University Professor Sherman Klump has created another formula which enables those who take it to find the Fountain of Youth.
17 total · 11 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anti-aging technology | major | Sherman Klump developed a drug that made people young again. |
| engaged couple | major | Sherman Klump and Denise Gaines. |
| genetic engineering in society | major | Sherman Klump used a method to isolate genetic material to remove his "Buddy Love gene" despite his assistant Jason warning him of potentially catastrophic consequences for his health. |
| human-canine hybrid | major | Buddy Love was a combination of human and dog DNA and he manifested dog-like behaviors. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | The socially awkward professor Sherman Klump invented a miracle drug that made people young again. |
| parody on life in academia | major | The film is set on a parody of a university campus. |
| romantic love | major | Sherman Klump and Denise Gaines. Papa Cletus Klump and Mama Anna Klump. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | The personality of Sherman Klump's vanquished alter ego, Buddy Love, was still ingrained inside him and causes him to act out in the same crass manner Buddy does. Buddy Love was later accidentally incarnated after Sherman removed the "Buddy Love gene" from his person. |
| the quest for immortality | major | Sherman Klump developed a drug that made people young again. |
| we need our darker side in moderation | major | In the end Shermal Klump came to accept that Buddly Love was a part of him and came to understand that the best thing to do was to learn how to control him. |