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Norbit (2007)

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User Rating: 3.6/10 (16,050 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Brian Robbins
Writers (WGA):
Eddie Murphy (screenplay) &
Charles Q. Murphy (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
9 February 2007 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Have you ever made a really big mistake?
Plot:
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(25 articles)
Opening This Week: Dot-com days, period magicians, Eddie (sigh) Murphy (From IFC. 15 July 2008, 4:59 PM, PDT)
Review: "Meet Dave" (From screeninglog. 12 July 2008, 2:06 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
A new standard for the distasteful more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Eddie Murphy ... Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong

Thandie Newton ... Kate Thomas

Terry Crews ... Big Jack Latimore
Clifton Powell ... Earl Latimore

Mighty Rasta ... Blue Latimore (as Lester 'Rasta' Speight)

Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Deion Hughes

Eddie Griffin ... Pope Sweet Jesus

Katt Williams ... Lord Have Mercy
Floyd Levine ... Abe the Tailor

Anthony Russell ... Giovanni

Pat Crawford Brown ... Mrs. Henderson
Jeanette Miller ... Mrs. Coleman
Michael Colyar ... Morris the Barber

Marlon Wayans ... Buster

Alexis Rhee ... Mrs. Ling Ling Wong
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, some nudity and language. (edited for re-rating)
Runtime:
Argentina:103 min | Philippines:101 min | USA:102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Agoura, California, USA more
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Company:
DreamWorks SKG more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
For security purposes, early prints were shipped under the title 'Jupiter', an apparent allusion to 'Eddie Murphy' 's film The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Norbit crashes his bike, he has a leaf in his hair. While he is talking to Kate, the leaf appears and disappears. more
Quotes:
Rasputia: [singing along with the radio] Don't you wish your girlfriend was as hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was a FREAK like me? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Stargate: Atlantis: Midway (#4.17)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
My God Called Me This Morning more

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175 out of 314 people found the following comment useful:-
A new standard for the distasteful, 8 February 2007
1/10
Author: janos451 from San Francisco

As they say in "Casablanca," I've been misinformed. Still, most of the responsibility belongs with me.

Misinformed by the promising cast of "Norbit" - Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding Jr. - a whole bunch of talented folk. My fault: not connecting the title with those horrid advertising snippets where an 800-pound female Murphy squashes a sort of male Murphy like a bug, with an unbelievably stereotyped bucktooth "Chinese" Murphy doing unspeakable things.

Honestly, I did not make the connection, and perhaps if I did, I might have thought those preview shots don't tell the whole story. Well, in fact, Murphy-squashing-Murphy is not the worse thing in "Norbit," although it's repeated many times.

The worse thing in "Norbit" is the whole of it: a nonstop, unrelieved, offensive, unfunny gross-out of unprecedented juvenile vulgarity. Think of Stephen Chow at his recent worst, multiplied by several degrees of all-around indignities.

Take it from an incorrigible movie fan who enjoyed half (the first half, specifically) of "Ishtar" (supposedly the "worst movie ever") and, more recently, found the cinematography of several otherwise terminally vapid movies "interesting" - there is nothing worthwhile in "Norbit" whatsoever, not even watching the beautiful Newton behaving like a fig here.

Brian Robbins, a TV producer in real life, is maligned here as the director, Jay Scherick and David Ronn (co-writers of the Martin Lawrence-botched "National Security") came up with a story of gore, body-function accidents, relentless pummeling of men, women and children of all races, although with more venom and contempt for blacks and Asians than the few token whites suffer.

What is the plot, beyond skinny Murphy being married to, and squashed by, elephantine Murphy? I don't want to spoil it, but basically that's what the story is.

"Norbit" sets a new standard for the worst Hollywood can conceivably produce.

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