Norbit
Starring Eddie Murphy, and Thandie Newton, Norbit follows the history of a guy who has always had it rough on every side, but he is pushed beyond limit when he is forced to marry one who is not his true love.
15 July 1968, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1 August 1998, Oakland, California, USA
7 November 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
23 February 1932, New York, New York, USA
November 16, 2012
Like all of Murphy's recent films, there's also a sweet-if-predictable heart beating beneath the discount jokes.January 15, 2008
The laughs are broad (pardon the pun), obtuse, and unsubtle.February 17, 2007
When Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry play gals with sky-high BMI, at least their characters offer -- and are shown -- a certain amount of love and respect.May 03, 2007
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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 20, 2007
It's offensively bad.February 09, 2007
Think Big Momma's House blended with a particularly loathsome Jerry Lewis movie, and you've got the picture. Grimacing yet?February 10, 2007
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.July 07, 2010
If there's no limit to your love of fat jokes, this is the movie for you.March 17, 2007
Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny.March 08, 2007
Even if you go back decades, body fascism has rarely been so brazen, or so unfunny. Horrifying.May 31, 2007
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.