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 Richard Gant John Gatins Khamani Griffin Lindsey Sims-Lewis China Anderson Kristen Schaal Susan Beaubian Charlie Murphy Hayley Marie Norman Sara Sanderson Smith Cho Lonnie Henderson Show All…

Alternative Titles

Norbit - Ein Loser trumpft auf!, 노르빗, Уловки Норбита

comedy

101 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

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 Blake ★★★★★ 8

Transcends cinema. I’d give it 100 stars if I could. Jesus wept.
Review by Blake ★★★★★

Watched this twice in less than a month. I probably deserve to be institutionalized. 5 stars.
Review by Luka Mina ★★★★★ 9

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?'
Review by russman ½ 7

So that just happened
Review by TheCultureShocker ★★★★★ 8

Quite literally the perfect movie.
Everything from the acting right down to the fucking key grip screams perfection so loud it's practically deafening. The story is full of unexpected twists and turns that will leave even the most dedicated cinephile on the edge of their seat in awe of something truly unlike anything anybody has ever seen.
Some say it doesn't hold up, some say it is downright unfunny and racist, but I disagree. I think it's one of the best character studies ever put to celluloid. Norbit has what you'd call a "character arc", y'see. He grows up shy but he gains a confident disposition by the end. Eddie Murphy plays three characters in this film. Norbit, Rasputia and…
Review by K. Austin Collins

Richard Brody once wondered what it might have been like for Eddie Murphy, a troubled but prolific and talented comedian and film caricaturist, to have been nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Norbit.
I'm not opposed to the idea; I like Eddie Murphy, always have. But consider the optics. Norbit was, in fact, nominated for an Oscar for Best Makeup in 2008, losing to La Vie En Rose. This was the year the Coens finally swung for a Best Picture win with No Country for Old Men -- the year Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for growling and glinting his way through There Will Be Blood, an okay picture. Day-Lewis's co-nominees were: the great Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises);…
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 Daniel ★★

Rasputia thicc as FUUUUUCK
Review by alex ★★★★★ 11

FUCK.
Review by coppolino coppolino ★★★★½ 2

funny movie

Recent reviews

Review by Bernardo Rodrigues ★★★

Severely underrated. Nubian comedy at its best!
Review by ocnbt ★★★★★

So funnnnyyy!
Review by luizinho ½

se foder kkkskkk isso não é filme nem de comédia meu deus coisa ruim da porra, sério que coisa ruim e essa??? o negro fazendo papel de um asiático e ele interpretando duas pessoas no mesmo filme? qual o problema de terem chamado uma mulher e um asiático pros papéis? tipo.........não faz sentido mds além da história ruim as piadas e o tipo de comédia que ele carrega são péssimos, arruinou minha noite obrigado por isso norbit e companhia.
Review by Marek Nazzal ★★★

3 stars for Murphy. Horrible movie otherwise, lol.
Review by Pengus Poopus ★★

SNOR[e]bit! i was Snoring through out the whole darn thing! snore snore snore! gosh darn was it boring! lot's of fun with the family.
Review by jotuvistian0

25/100
Review by Nick Kurtz ★

I read Eddie Murphy endured 12 hours of makeup each day to play Rasputia. There are few things I can tolerate for 12 hours. Maybe sleeping and eating.
Review by Lukas Alves ★★★★★

Clint Eastwood
Review by Trevor Hamer ★★

Eddie Murphy is phenomenal and that’s all I’ll say about that
Review by Ciro Cirin ★★★★★

i can see this film 3 thousand times and still cry of laugh lol
Review by white_rabbit_ ½

The only good thing about this movie is that it was shot in the same studio as Glimore Girls
Review by Lime ½

I hate Norbit (2007) with a deep, burning passion.