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Norbit

Anthony Russell, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin, Eddie Murphy

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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  • magnum32004
    March 12, 2007
    magnum32004
    Eddie Murphy is back in the world of comedy in top form with a movie that's both funny and warm-hearted.
  • sononothing
    November 28, 2009
    sononothing
    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.
  • mistershinobi
    November 13, 2009
    mistershinobi
    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?
  • phubbs1
    July 18, 2009
    phubbs1
    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.
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 18, 2008
    AgentLexi2132
    ''Remember, black people run very fast. But problem run faster.''

    ''That's kinda racist.''

    ''Yes, Wong very racist. Don't like black. Don't like Jew either. But black and Jew love Chinese food. Go figure.''

    A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstr...( read more)ous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

    Eddie Murphy: Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong

    Eddie Murphy thinks he's clever. Eddie Murphy believes he can keep regurgitating his multiple roles in Nutty Professor proportions. Norbit shows us it's getting past the point of being not funny, old hat and completely irritating. Long gone are the days of Beverley Hills Cop and Golden Child or even Coming to America. But why Mr Murphy can pick an amazing film like Dreamgirls, then have the cheek to be in rubbish like this is beyond me.

    So Eddie Murphy as Norbit, he plays a loser in this first so called main role. He's an Orphan who ends up being raised by Mr Wong, a Chinese Restaurant owner, who's about the funniest character in Norbit.
    Mr Wong surprise surprise is played by Eddie Murphy too. Ends up being a smart cracking, one liner ridden, crease of laughs with his racist disposition.
    God knows what possessed Thandie Newton & Cuba Gooding Jr to take part in the Norbit atrocities is beyond me.

    Brian Robbins, a TV producer in real life, is maligned here as the director, Jay Scherick and David Ronn (co-writers of the Martin Lawrence-botched National Security) came up with a story of gore, body-function accidents, relentless pummeling of men, women and children of all races, although with more venom and contempt for blacks and Asians than the few token whites suffer.

    The movie was offensive on so many levels. The racial humor wasn't funny. There are some lines with attempts at humour that really go too far(My chosen one is a fine example). Many of you who have seen it will understand what I mean. And those who haven't, I hope you don't support this film out of a curiosity, that indeed will kill the cat. Please, wait for Sky or Freeview for this.

    I heard that it was Eddie Murphy's brother who came up with this idea. If EM did this as a favor to his brother, he could have done his brother, and himself a bigger favor by bringing Charlie in on a better project and tossing this script.

    Eddie Murphy does put effort into his characters as always, but it's wasted energy. His job as Norbit gets lost in the low class, low level so-called comedy. Even though I just saw the film, I had to really remember that his performance as Norbit was decent. All I can think about is how offended I was by Norbit. Eddie Murphy even has the bold audacity to put in a talking dog, that rips off Men In Black and shows Norbit for the unoriginal crass fertilizer that it is.
  • dougtmnt
    January 6, 2010
    dougtmnt
    wish i wouldn't have seen it
  • elesterw
    January 5, 2010
    elesterw
    A funny movie aimed at highlighting how people can get trapped and manipulated in a dead end relationship.
  • seddiefan1
    January 3, 2010
    seddiefan1
    I didn't even watch this...
  • DayannGG
    December 29, 2009
    DayannGG
    Nada recomendable! =(
  • sweetk91
    December 28, 2009
    sweetk91
    Terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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