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Norbit (2007)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:10
Rotten:106
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Coming off his Oscar-nominated performance in Dreamgirls, the talented-but-inconsistent Eddie Murphy plays three roles in Norbit, a cruel, crass, stereotype-filled comedy that's more depressing than funny.
Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $95,323,496
Synopsis: Norbit (Eddie Murphy, channeling Buckwheat and Woody Allen) is a shy, nebbishy fellow, raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage/Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs,... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding, Charlie Murphy
Director: Brian Robbins
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Reviews for Norbit
Too many of the gags in the sloppy comedy Norbit are lumbering and graceless, more fun to anticipate than to witness.
02/09/07
Top CriticMurphy 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 morbidly obese harpy as the main comic attraction.
02/09/07
Even if you go back decades, body fascism has rarely been so brazen, or so unfunny. Horrifying.
03/08/07
There’s a growing - if still anecdotally rooted - consensus that Norbit could do serious damage to Eddie Murphy's Oscar chances.
02/09/07
Norbit ends up a patchy oddity, but remains the closest Eddie Murphy has come to recapturing his mislaid sense of danger.
02/08/07
If you're going to make a movie that basically centers around misogyny, racism, and making fun of fat people, why not go all the way and make it an adult R-rated comedy?
02/09/07
It's small consolation when you have to sit through such a miserably unfunny movie, but at least the bad ideas here are relatively original.
05/31/07
Perhaps a release at this time is meant to capitalize on Murphy's artistic comeback. Instead, Norbit serves as a feature-length reminder of why he needed a comeback.
02/09/07
The question is not whether Murphy can do anything. He can. The question is why he would want to make a movie as squirmingly unfunny as Norbit.
02/09/07
Top CriticHopefully the awards and acclaim Murphy has received for his work in Dreamgirls will inspire him to think twice from now on about puerile pictures like Norbit. The combination of the two speaks to his versatility, if not his pride.
02/08/07
Top CriticEddie Murphy steals more than a few ideas from Tyler Perry for his multi-character comedy that has Murphy playing an obese wench named Rasputia, to whom Norbit is married.
02/19/07
Norbit demonstrates that even when working with low-grade material, Murphy can be a superb actor.
02/08/07
Stealing from Date Movie: now that is pathetic.
02/24/07
[Rasputia is] violent, vulgar, selfish, and lacking the subtlety of even a fairy tale orge or evil stepmother. The character undercuts the entire film.
02/09/07
Norbit is not a thriller, action film or suspense story. Still, it achieves the assassination of comedy.
02/09/07
Norbit isn't one of Murphy's best; it's a poor cousin to his other family comedies, and as Rasputia, whose catchphrase is a brassy "how you doin'?," he's surprisingly unfunny.
02/08/07
Top CriticMurphy may be at the top of his game, but Norbit is stuck on autopilot.
02/08/07
A quick paycheck may sound like a good idea when you're a creatively tapped comedian making trash like Daddy Day Care. But when you're a suddenly serious comeback kid aiming for an Oscar?
02/09/07
When it comes to spectacularly unfunny comedy, the supposedly very funny Eddie Murphy sure knows how to pick 'em.
02/10/07
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