Even if you go back decades, body fascism has rarely been so brazen, or so unfunny. Horrifying.
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03/08/07
Norbit (2007)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:10
Rotten:106
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:09-03-2007
Synopsis: Norbit (Eddie Murphy, channeling Buckwheat and Woody Allen) is a shy, nebbishy fellow, raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage/Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs,... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding, Charlie Murphy
Director: Brian Robbins
Reviews for Norbit
Top CriticIf 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.
03/15/07
Three Eddie Murphys is three too many.
03/06/07
Top CriticMurphy has a deplorable joke concerning a lost policeman's whistle for which there is no excuse whatever - other than it's very funny.
03/10/07
Top CriticMost of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny.
03/17/07
Stereotype-based comedy from Eddie Murphy in a variety of fat suits is just not enough to make a decent film.
03/08/07
Top CriticMurphy's work in Norbit makes his fine performance in Dreamgirls look like he was acting with a couple of hands tied behind his back.
02/08/07
Eddie Murphy reaches into his comedic closet and pulls out a hysterical hit.
02/07/07
Norbit is a return to form for Murphy; while it's not on a par with his best work, it's very funny and just risky enough to eradicate the memory of Daddy Day Care.
02/09/07
When it works, Norbit's honesty about its exaggerations makes for a more embraceable portrait of American culture than Dreamgirls.
02/13/07
And while some of the laughs are certainly hilarious, they aren't as plentiful as necessary to make Norbit a consistently funny film.
02/07/07
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.
02/09/07
Although there's no denying the threadbare nature of the script, watching Murphy riff can be a formidable entertainment on its own.
02/09/07
Why is everybody in such a tizzy over Norbit?
02/27/07
This is all pretty ordinary Murphy movie stuff, which is to say it's kinda funny most of the time and very funny some of the time.
02/09/07
Absolutely adorable. Murphy plays a big black woman who is not a victim of America’s unrealistic ideal of beauty.
02/07/07
Too many of the gags in the sloppy comedy Norbit are lumbering and graceless, more fun to anticipate than to witness.
02/09/07
Top CriticMurphy looks like he's in pain, and he probably is -- latex cellulite can't be fun to wear -- but his anguish is as much existential as physical, trapped inside a lumbering vehicle that offers a morbidly obese harpy as the main comic attraction.
02/09/07
There’s a growing - if still anecdotally rooted - consensus that Norbit could do serious damage to Eddie Murphy's Oscar chances.
02/09/07
Norbit ends up a patchy oddity, but remains the closest Eddie Murphy has come to recapturing his mislaid sense of danger.
02/08/07
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