Norbit has something to offend everyone... All you need is Isaiah Washington and Michael Richards in the movie spewing homophobic and racial slurs to make it complete.
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02/08/07
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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
Eddie portrays three of the leads including a sassy, oversexed, super-sized sister in an unmitigated disaster which makes characters with darker skin the butt of virtually every joke.
02/11/07
Somewhere between a minstrel show and a lesser Jerry Lewis movie there's Norbit.
02/16/07
If nothing else, the movie proves that years of PG-rated kiddie stuff hasn't dulled Murphy's edge. He's just rusty, that's all.
02/11/07
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
This gross comedy hardly seems like the best way to exploit Murphy's talents.
02/08/07
Top Critic...works on a basic level, but I left it very sad.
02/09/07
Hopefully 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 CriticIt’s too bad that the script doesn’t serve Murphy’s multi-character talents in the way he deserves. If and when it ever does, he may actually make a comedy for the ages.
02/07/07
It probably isn't possible for a single movie to reverse all social progress made since the civil-rights era, but Norbit, the latest broadside from Eddie Murphy, does its best to turn back the clock.
02/08/07
Three Eddie Murphys is three too many.
03/06/07
Dumb and coarse and sometimes boring and a little bit sad.
02/09/07
Top CriticThis is all pretty ordinary Murphy movie stuff, which is to say it's kinda funny most of the time and very funny some of the time.
02/09/07
This dismal comedy joins a growing pile of Murphy disasters (The Haunted Mansion, Daddy Day Care, I Spy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash), which may have made his Oscar nomination for Dreamgirls a foregone conclusion -- if not now, when?
02/08/07
There is potential all over this film, but every scene is overwrought with unfunny caricatures and tired jokes. We've seen every gimmick and sight gag before, in better, funnier films.
02/09/07
The movie seems a weird nightmare of rampaging femininity and gross gags.
02/09/07
Top CriticMurphy does well juggling three roles, but the movie (from a story co-written with his brother Charles) isn't worthy of his talents.
02/08/07
... admirável que, com um passado já tão recheado de atrocidades cinematográficas, Eddie Murphy tenha conseguido, com Norbit, a proeza de realizar aquele que, sem dúvida, é o pior filme de sua já desastrosa carreira.
03/09/07
Apparently all fat people are inherently evil.
02/09/07
It's an astonishingly crass and vulgar film, crudely directed on a cut-rate budget by Brian Robbins, never more than almost funny or less than disturbing.
02/08/07
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