Norbit (Blu-ray) PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: February 7, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Paramount

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Even if you go back decades, body fascism has rarely been so brazen, or so unfunny. Horrifying.
Time Out
Mar 8, 2007
Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny. Full Review
Observer (UK)
Mar 17, 2007
Rating: 56/100 -- 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.
Apollo Guide
Jun 1, 2007
The laughs are broad (pardon the pun), obtuse, and unsubtle. Full Review
Dark Horizons
Jan 15, 2008
Rating: 1/6 -- 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. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 17, 2007
Rating: 1/5 -- Three Eddie Murphys is three too many. Full Review
BBC.com
Mar 6, 2007
Rating: 1/5 -- click for review Full Review
Movies for the Masses
May 3, 2007

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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, Tennessee. As a child, Norbit comes to love Kate, a fellow orphan, but the soulmates are separated when Kate is adopted. Enter Rasputia, an aggressive, plus-sized 10-year-old who protects him from bullies and demands his romantic loyalty, much like her thuggish older brothers demand "protection" money from all the merchants in Boiling Springs. Rasputia and Norbit eventually marry--and the peevish adult Rasputia is played to great comic effect by Eddie Murphy in a fat suit. Although Rasputia is controlling, unfaithful, hideous-looking, and always madder than a hornet, she and Norbit make a life together, albeit one based on inertia, fear, and complacency.

The bubble bursts when the now-grown Kate (Thandie Newton) returns to Boiling Springs to buy Mr. Wong's orphanage. Norbit's love is rekindled, and he must find a way to end his loveless marriage, save Kate from marrying a crooked philanderer (Cuba Gooding Jr., in a rare villainous turn), and prevent Rasputia's brothers from carrying through with a big con job that would destroy the orphanage and Kate's life. Eddie Murphy, not surprisingly, carries the show, with broad, juvenile humor, fat jokes, and pratfalls, and while he never aims very high, he manages to inject some poignancy into Norbit's and Wong's characters, even as he plays Rasputia strictly for laughs. It's not Shakespeare--it's not even BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE--but the laughs are as big as Rasputia's muumuu.

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