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Norbit takes the idea behind The Nutty Professor 2 -- that Eddie Murphy can play just about every character in the movie -- and strips it of all charm and humor.
There are so many problems with Norbit that when you try to pin one down, another one splooges out elsewhere.
Think Big Momma's House blended with a particularly loathsome Jerry Lewis movie, and you've got the picture. Grimacing yet?
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 bit bland.
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.
If there's no limit to your love of fat jokes, this is the movie for you.
Another fat suit for Murphy, another bad movie.
The laughs are broad (pardon the pun), obtuse, and unsubtle.
If not for the fact that movie made $100 million in theaters, one would naturally never expect that such an offensive adventure ever got off the drawing board. I suppose that's why I'm a critic and not a scriptwriter.
In case you thought it was as bad as it could get, the DVD proves otherwise by giving you 14 additional scenes that weren't deemed good enough to make the final cut.
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.
Like a Jerry Lewis vehicle gone gangrenous, Norbit is a nauseating mess.
Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny.
A life sucking comedy of highly dubious intent.
If you're not a die-hard Murphy fan, your enjoyment of Norbit will depend entirely on how funny you find fat suits and fart jokes. Worth missing.
Murphy has a deplorable joke concerning a lost policeman's whistle for which there is no excuse whatever - other than it's very funny.
... 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.
Stereotype-based comedy from Eddie Murphy in a variety of fat suits is just not enough to make a decent film.
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