Murphy has a deplorable joke concerning a lost policeman's whistle for which there is no excuse whatever - other than it's very funny.
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03/10/07
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 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 CriticThree Eddie Murphys is three too many.
03/06/07
Top CriticEven if you go back decades, body fascism has rarely been so brazen, or so unfunny. Horrifying.
03/08/07
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
Surely some humanitarian organization will recognize the selflessness with which Murphy has taken three of the movie's major roles, thus saving two other actors from a nasty black mark on their résumés.
02/08/07
Top CriticAbsolutely adorable. Murphy plays a big black woman who is not a victim of America’s unrealistic ideal of beauty.
02/07/07
A film that seems more like an act of revenge against womankind than an extra-broad comedy where the star dresses up in drag.
02/10/07
Murphy may bring down the house in Dreamgirls, but -- despite its crudities and obvious failures -- Freud would find Norbit significantly more interesting.
02/09/07
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.
02/17/07
... a strange, toneless collection of fat jokes, fart jokes and foul sex gags.
02/08/07
From start to finish, Norbit is dismally unfunny, inspiring this Sign of the Apocalypse observation: Big Momma's House 2 was better.
02/09/07
The Nutty Professor was a comic tour de force; Norbit smells faintly of desperation.
02/09/07
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.
02/10/07
Murphy 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
Eddie Murphy in another fat suit? What could possibly go wrong with that? Oh, plenty, let me tell you.
02/09/07
You wouldn't call this a recommendation, exactly, but the new Eddie Murphy movie is not nearly as horrible as it looks.
02/09/07
First, Martin Lawrence as Big Momma, then Tyler Perry as Madea, and now this? Enough already.
02/15/07
There is potential all over this film, but every scene is overwrought with unfunny caricatures and tired jokes. We've seen every gimmick and sight gag before, in better, funnier films.
02/09/07
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