Anthony Russell, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin, Eddie Murphy ...( see more  see more... ) , Jennifer Lauren Grant , Katt Williams , Marlon Wayans , Rob Huebel , Terry Crews , Thandie Newton

Norbit has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong--that was heavy. Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the ...( read more  read more... )mean, obscene, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia. Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate, moves back to town. Now, he'll find that nice guys sometimes finish first.

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9% liked it

117 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Brian Robbins

Release Date: February 9, 2007

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DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007

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  • March 12, 2007
    Eddie Murphy is back in the world of comedy in top form with a movie that's both funny and warm-hearted.
  • January 21, 2010
    I can't say I've ever heard anything good said about Norbit, rightly so, it's not very good. That said though, it wasn't half as bad as I thought it was going to be, I actually laughed a couple of times. I had just been varnishing the work surfaces in the kitchen though, so the f...( read more)act I was high on fumes probably help in my overall enjoyment of the film. A lot could be said about how misogynistic and racist this film is but then you would be taking it all too seriously. Something would be wrong if it was a big hit, won loads of awards etc but it wasn't. It was better than The Klumps, that is as close to a recommendation as I can give you!
  • November 28, 2009
    Hey! You want to know why Eddie Murphy didn't win an Oscar for Dreamgirls? This is it.

    I've learned not to expect much out of Eddie Murphy. Has he actually done a good movie in awhile? I can't remember. What makes Norbit so special? Why is Norbit accepted as such a horrible film...( read more) across the globe? I couldn't figure it out. It bothered me, it tore at my soul. So I had to find out for myself. And within the first few minutes I had my answer. The film also stars... drum roll please.... Cuba Gooding, Jr. That's right, the guy that won the Oscar and then let his career swim in a sewage treatment plant is in Norbit. It's not Eddie Murphy! It's Cuba!

    The film has Eddie Murphy playing Norbit, his rotund wife and probably some other characters that I didn't care about. It was cool twenty years ago Akeem, but that stuff got old and we get enough of that in Mike Meyer's movies. The orphanage plot is horrid with acting that isn't really acting but trying to keep up with Mr. Eddie's ad-libbing. The film centers on saving an orphanage. No, Norbit isn't on a mission from God, he's playing a foil to his large wife and her criminal family, who are the ones that want the orphanage for other investment gains. Of course there's the cute girl (Thandie Newton) that got away, who- that's right- is there to save the orphanage because in the movies only good looking people are good and people that look like me are evil.

    I have to say once again that the fact that Eddie Murphy is in this should have been a brown crap flag from the start. It's OK, we can blame Eddie since he also helped write this piece of shit. Shame, Eddie. Shame. I don't know what to tell you. What happened to the Eddie Murphy that wore blue leather suits with 75 zippers and was going to be the next Richard Pryor. I guess Eddie really has followed Richard Pryor in that the movies he did in the twilight of his career were crap too.
  • November 13, 2009
    The painful thing about this isn't the collage of retarded moments out of a moronic, 10 year-old written screenplay: it's how little it tries to actually be something. There's nothing new, nothing original, nothing smart, it's just a clip show of old comedy routines filled...( read more) with fat joke after fat joke.

    The worst part? I sat through the whole thing and I smiled. Twice. But mostly at how weird/funny/cute it was to see Thandie Newton believing she was in some sort of intelligent british comedy instead of an Eddie Murphy fat suit movie.

    I have a question: are black audiences really that stupid and easy to please? Don't get me wrong, I live south of the border, where we have our own issues with stupid audiences laughing at shit like this but it looks like something cultural or idiosyncratic: Tyler Perry, ghetto jive and fat suits. Seriously? That's what it takes to make a "proud" race laugh?

    A friend said: "I love how shiny everything looks." and he's right. It's weird how technically competent this movie is: good cinematography (specially at the beginning, with all the flashbacks shot in sunny, warm atmospheres) and probably the best make-up in a fat suit movie yet. But, is that truly a compliment?
  • July 18, 2009
    Murphy in more fat suits, what is it with these fat suits?? this is terrible, unfunny and kinda cruel to overweight people haha its also just an extension to his 'Nutty Proff' flicks but nowhere near as good, just a cash in.
  • February 6, 2010
    One of stupidest movies I have ever seen. Watching it was a total waste of my life.
  • January 31, 2010
    A guy whO dOezn;t luv her becuz She;z tOO bOzzy he fell in luv wit hiS childhOOd gf
  • January 30, 2010
    funny, sick, sad, and wrong
  • January 28, 2010
    Check out the word lame in the dictionary and you'll find this movie as the example of the word.
  • January 26, 2010
    Very eaggerated! Didnt like it at all!

Critic Reviews


March 2, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

A one-dimensional bad news comedy. full review

February 9, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

There are so many problems with Norbit that when you try to pin one down, another one splooges out elsewhere. full review

February 9, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Norbit is as fleeting as a belch -- and even less funny. full review

February 9, 2007
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Norbit is a tour de force in which Murphy plays three distinct characters, two of them to the hilt. In fact, the only thing that makes Norbit good rather than great is that the title character is a bi... full review

February 9, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

Murphy looks like he's in pain, and he probably is -- latex cellulite can't be fun to wear -- but his anguish is as much existential as physical, trapped inside a lumbering vehicle that offers a morbi... full review

February 9, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Norbit is pretty much a bad-taste sinkhole, with Murphy competing against himself to see which of his three characters he can make more grating. full review

February 9, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Too many of the gags in the sloppy comedy Norbit are lumbering and graceless, more fun to anticipate than to witness.

February 8, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Norbit demonstrates that even when working with low-grade material, Murphy can be a superb actor. full review

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Comments


  • donpark11
    December 17, 2007
    This was extremely funny to me. You might need to watch it again. I am addicted to watching it... at least once every couple of weeks. Beautiful in HD also.
    How can people watch this movie and not laugh?

    P.S. How Yoooouuu dooing..! :-)
  • wwwsoulreaper555
    November 30, 2007
    Did anyone else feel like the pimps were the only decent thing in this film?
  • ibizachick1
    November 25, 2007
    This was the funniest thing Id seen In ages !!! especially the water chute lol
  • JohnnyDfan4ever
    September 30, 2007
    omggg this movie suckk !!
    idk which movie is worse this one or little man
    but both movies are stupid
    it was not even funny && the effects were so unreal lol
    the only good part was that eddie murphy is fun to watch
    but is not even one of his good movies
  • nthlmorrison
    September 30, 2007
    This movie is great..Didn't get it at first..but it turned out great!!!
  • gloomgurl
    September 19, 2007
    Ok, when I first saw the previews for this movie, I thought that it was truly going to be dim-witted and mildly offensive, but to my surprise it was a really good movie. Why did I doubt Eddie Murphy? I just don’t know. Of course it had a few questionable moments, but what American movie on the planet doesn’t. The overall plot was nice and genuinely funny and it actually went somewhere. I still can’t believe that Chinese man was Eddie. He brought that character to life. This is a pretty good movie for a good laugh! You will love to hate Rasputia, and sympathize and cheer on Norbit.
  • aq73
    September 16, 2007
    i saw this movie today on dvd i found it funny and would recommend anyone to watch it
  • K1rzty
    August 13, 2007
    i love that movie!!!!! xxxxxx
  • K1rzty
    August 13, 2007
    hey cool back round lol !!!!! xxxxxx
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    August 4, 2007
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