Norbit (2007)

If Eddie Murphy, a once great talent...

...keeps putting out crap like this, I predict his movie career will soon be referred to in the past tense. This is just awful, somewhere between a human acted cartoon and tripe. The first fifteen or so minutes have a couple of laughs, from there it goes straight downhill. This is so bad it's not even worth the time to watch it if you somehow acquired it for nothing. I always loved Eddie Murphy, and I know no one can hit a homerun every time out, but this just blows chunks, sucks, you fill in whatever appropriate phrase you'd like. Avoid it like a mother-in-law with a rent bill in her hand. August 17, 2008

Norbit

Shortly after this movie was released I started hearing notions & comments on entertainment websites & shows that this movie would prevent Eddie Murphy from winning the Oscar for his performance in DREAMGIRLS. I heard that this movie was crass, buffoonish, stupid, ignorant, mean-spirited, yadda..yadda..yadda so I avoided seeing it till recently.

This is the first Eddie Murphy comedy that I've seen in a long time and I had no expectations about what I'd see but this was the most hilarious movie I've seen in quite a while. The makeup artist who transformed Eddie into Rasputia & Mr. Wong is to be commended as are the technical wizards who enabled us to see Norbit & Rasputia in the same scenes in a seamless manner. This is a basic story of a sad sack in Norbit who grows from an abandoned baby to the cuckolded husband of an overweight bully of a wife (both played by Murphy). Norbit's sad life is trucking along until he discovers his wife's infidelity and the return of his childhood sweetheart - these events make him realize that he wants & deserves true love & happiness.

The supporting cast of Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Kat Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terry Crews and Marlon Wayans as the "power tap guru" definitely worked well off of Eddie's "characters".

Frankly, several members of my family have questioned my taste level after learning how much I enjoy this movie but I just tell them "different strokes for different folks" and keep it moving. This movie IS crude, rude & lewd but I found it funny as hell and crack up every time I think about certain scenes so to all who enjoyed it, HOW YOU DOIN'?!
July 31, 2008

Eddie Murphy Style!!!!

When I first watched it, I didn't laugh very much. By the second or third time my boyfriend and I started randomly quoting lines from the movie and falling out!!!! Yes, Rasputia is beastly and mean-spirited, but I ended up buying this movie because at any point in the movie, there's something hilarious going on or being said. It's meant to be crass, folks. She's ghetto fabulous! July 24, 2008

Considering I don't normally like comedy, this movie was really funny!

I'm not much of a comedy gal, but my husband is so I picked this movie up to watch one evening and I couldn't stop laughing.

The real beauty in this movie was that the casting was spot on. Every actor played their part in an exceptional manner, and of course the three characters that Eddie Murphy plays were all so different, authentic, and funny.

Eddie Murphy plays Norbit, a shy, polite, orphan with a heart of gold. He also plays his wife (Rasputia), a domineering, opinionated, 400 lb black woman, as well as an elderly Chinese man who raised him.

There are so many funny and brilliant scenes in this movie, and I knew within the first 10 minutes of watching this movie that I was going to love it.

I liked this movie more than the Nutty Professor, although I don't expect it will be as well remembered. I would not say this movie is appropriate for children, but young adults and older should enjoy this. July 4, 2008

Love this movie

But you must love raw, crude humor. If you do, this one kills! And Eddie Murphy is amazing! June 12, 2008

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