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Norbit (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 111

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.

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 28

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.

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Movie Info

A meek and lovable milquetoast married to an overbearing, overweight tyrant finds his life turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams in this romantic comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Eddie Griffin. His entire life, Norbit (Murphy) has been picked on and put down, and after being bullied into marrying the most obnoxious woman in town (also Murphy) it appears as if that's the way things will remain until the day he dies. Upon meeting the one woman

PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Comedy

Jay Scherick, David Ronn

Jun 5, 2007

$95.3M

Dreamworks Distribution LLC

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All Critics (122) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (116) | DVD (23)

It's offensively bad.

February 20, 2007 Comments (2)
Ebert & Roeper
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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.

February 10, 2007 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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There are so many problems with Norbit that when you try to pin one down, another one splooges out elsewhere.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Think Big Momma's House blended with a particularly loathsome Jerry Lewis movie, and you've got the picture. Grimacing yet?

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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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.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comments (8)
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

February 9, 2007 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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If there's no limit to your love of fat jokes, this is the movie for you.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

Another fat suit for Murphy, another bad movie.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The laughs are broad (pardon the pun), obtuse, and unsubtle.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

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.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

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.

May 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

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.

May 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Like a Jerry Lewis vehicle gone gangrenous, Norbit is a nauseating mess.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

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May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny.

March 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

A life sucking comedy of highly dubious intent.

March 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | Comments (2)

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.

March 15, 2007 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Murphy has a deplorable joke concerning a lost policeman's whistle for which there is no excuse whatever - other than it's very funny.

March 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

... 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.

March 9, 2007 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Stereotype-based comedy from Eddie Murphy in a variety of fat suits is just not enough to make a decent film.

March 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Norbit

Watching Norbit is essentialy watching Eddie Murphy set fire to his career.....again.

January 19, 2012
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

Been there done that......nutty professor zzzzzzz.

October 31, 2011
Eric Alvarez

Super Reviewer

    1. Norbit Albert Rice: Tuesday!
    – Submitted by Sara B (31 days ago)
    1. Rasputia: Norbit! Buster's a guest in our home! How dare you insinuate somethin' like that!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (38 days ago)
    1. Rasputia: That's it. Now it's time to bring the pain!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (38 days ago)
    1. Rasputa Age 10: How you doin'!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (38 days ago)
    1. Rasputa Age 10: [To a young Norbit] Get your ass up and hold my hand!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (38 days ago)

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