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Norbit

2007 Directed by Brian Robbins

Have You Ever Made A Really Big Mistake?

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.

Eddie Murphy Thandie Newton Terry Crews Clifton Powell Lester Speight Cuba Gooding Jr. Katt Williams Floyd Levine Anthony Russell Pat Crawford Brown Jeanette Miller Michael Colyar Marlon Wayans Alexis Rhee Eddie Griffin Rob Huebel John West

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Review by DirkH ½ 5

This movie has reportedly been used as a surrogate to waterboarding.
Review by Matthew L. Brady ½

This is how Eddie Murphy lost his Oscar.
Review by russman ½ 7

So that just happened
Review by Ben Brewer ½

In 1987, Eddie Murphy stepped onto the stage at New York's Felt Forum to perform a stand up routine entitled Raw.

In the 93 minutes that followed, Murphy delivered a set that contained 223 utterances of the word fuck, and ran the gamut from Bill Cosby's prudishness, to nightclub brawls.

The set was electrifying. It was fast, it was furious, it was, well...raw. It was also fucking hilarious.

This is not that Eddie Murphy.
Review by Waiching Liu ½ 4

Is Norbit the guilty pleasure comedy farce much like with 1997's Fathers' Day for me and a comedy with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal that was trashed by critics but one I adored to bits, or is it an absolute travesty and a low for Eddie Murphy, whose film career has its share of downs and ups?

Penned by Eddie and his late brother, Charlie Murphy, Norbit took in almost $100 million and is the follow-up to Eddie Murphy's praised performance in Dreamgirls and is another film where just like with 1996's The Nutty Professor Eddie dons prosthetics. The only difference being the laughs here was not only woefully few and few between, the humour was just poor and most…
Review by Luka Mina ★★★★★ 5

Wow.

This is a film that needs to be watched 3 times to appreciate.
Subtle comedy.
Oscar worthy performances.
Ingenious historical and religious allegories and biblical allusions (Rasputia=God).

Honestly, no jokes or sarcasm, my love for this film is as big as Rasputia herself.

'How you doing?'

Recent reviews

Review by Veronica ★½

i regret watching this bullshit
Review by bibsmaia ★

still a classic though
Review by Joel Varela ½

the most awful day of my year
Review by Miloš ★★★★

Well, I watched it when I was like 12 years old and that's why I found it hilarious. And I do think it's still hilarious. It's not that really awful or bad, it's just dumb in all good ways and most of it made me laugh. The movie knows that. However, I believe Murphy did a hard jobs playing in all three roles and had to transformed into a monstrous woman, I loved all scenes from that female character he created as she was one of the better things of the film. She nailed in every scene and I've watched this scene for many times. Maybe this movie deserved nomination an Oscar for Best Makeup, but I don't think Murphy deserved all Razzies for his performances.
Review by DaethKino ½

I watched this because my friend only ever attracts fat chicks and I wanted insight into his life. Remember watching as a kid and not laughing, which is quite the achievement even compared to an undeserved academy award for best makeup.
Review by Noah ½

H O W Y O U D O I N G
Review by Dazzler798 ★★★★★

Rasputia outsold all your favorite villains. Stalin who? Ursula? Don’t know her.

Can we get a Rasputia vs Thanos movie plz?
Review by Sam Blackburn ★★

Jesus Christ Eddie Murphy.
Seriously I have no idea what Eddie was, or has been thinking with a lot of his movie choices lately, when he decided to do "Norbit" but this is defintely a career low for the guy.

I know Eddie was nominated for an Oscar for "Dream Girls" before "Norbit" came out and after this movie came out before the Oscars and Eddie didn't win many people now say that when an actor gets nominated for an Oscar then a bad movie of theirs comes out before the Oscars they "Norbitted" their chances of winning.

Now I can't say for sure if that's true because we have no idea if Eddie would have won the Oscar even…
Review by Yusuf Bay ½

This mess is an OSCAR NOMINATED movie