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

Love this movie

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

4.5 out of 5 Clever, Hilarious, pure mindless Fun.

Eddie Murphy at his best. Either you will love this movie or you will hate it.
In my opinion, Eddie Murphy shows a display of his full potential when it comes to cleverness and versatility by (once again) impersonating diverse and completely unrelated characters, a talent and ability tried by many actors, achieved by a select few, but non like Eddie Murphy; pure genius.
Norbit is the guy to whom everything wrong happens to. The story has been done before; the weak, hopeless guy who finally stands up for himself and gets the pretty girl in the end, but the ingenuity behind it all, will have you thinking about it and talking about it for quite some time after you watch it, asking yourself "how did he do that?"
If you liked "The Nutty Professor" movies, you will definitely appreciate Norbit. Besides, Eddie Griffin's contribution is also a huge plus. May 14, 2008

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