Norbit (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eddie Murphy, Thandiwe Newton & Cuba Gooding Jr. | |
Performer: | Charlie Murphy, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews & Clifton Powell | |
Directed by | Brian Robbins | |
Edited by | Ned Bastille | |
Screenwriting by | Jay Scherick & David Ronn | |
Composition by | David Newman | |
Produced by | John Davis & Michael Tollin | |
Director of Photography: | J. Clark Mathis |
Entertainment Reviews:
The laughs are broad (pardon the pun), obtuse, and unsubtle.
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Dark Horizons
It's offensively bad.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 2/5 --
Like all of Murphy's recent films, there's also a sweet-if-predictable heart beating beneath the discount jokes.
Empire Magazine Australasia
Rating: 1/5 --
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Movies for the Masses
Most of the jokes concern obesity, which Murphy evidently believes to be ipso facto funny.
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Observer (UK)
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.
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Time Out
Rating: 1/5 --
Three Eddie Murphys is three too many.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
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.
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.