Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
The Klumps are back!
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
In Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “genetic lab comedy”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, exploitation, technology, love, family.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Boss Baby (2017)E8/E10 · family, identity
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)E8/E10 · exploitation, family
Surrogates (2009)E8/E10 · exploitation, identity
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)E8/E10 · family, identity
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)E8/E10 · exploitation, family
Vivarium (2019)E8/E10 · exploitation, familySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)E4/E9/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, identity
The Mermaid (2016)E7/E9 · rare rung · exploitation, love
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, technology
TMNT (2007)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, identity
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, technology
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014)E9/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, identityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · brain‑jar romance
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · Arabian fantasy kingdom
Hercules (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · mythic olympus
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · elemental metropolis
Disenchanted (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy‑tale suburbia
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · seasonal fairy realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · exploitation, family
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · exploitation, identity
Blue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · exploitation, family
Bicentennial Man (1999)consciousness in machines · identity, love
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · exploitation, family
