Norbit Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Ridiculous... But Funny !

Saw this after a particularly grim day at work and thought nothing would bring me round... this did !! Ok it is daft, it is slapstick and it is patently ridiculous in the extreme... but it is also funny, in fact very funny in parts.

There are a few verbal jokes that are very close to the edge for a 12A rated film, if your kids laugh, you know they know too much !!!

I can see that the voice and some of the slapstick might be groaners for some viewers of this, and is it worth a 4 star, well it perked me up, and I definately would rate it as one for the rental list - go on, you know you want to !

Not as Bad as Jonathan Ross Says It Is!!

I saw Jonathan Ross's review of this and thought--'Oh yeah--I have GOT to see this movie!!' J.R. was deeply offended and huffy and puffy and ranted and raved and said that Eddie Murphy lost the Oscar for Dreamgirls because of Norbit, etc.etc..blah blah blah...Anyway, I put on my raincoat, dark glasses, and hat and slunk off to see this supposedly shameful debacle. Surprise! Some of it was pretty funny. I saw it in a large city centre cinema with an audience of a whole variety of people--white, black and oriental. No one seemed as bent out of shape about it as J.R.--they enjoyed it, and there was a lot of laughter. I didn't find the movie disgusting and racially offensive as Ross did--all I can say is lighten up dear boy--you seem to have had the politically correct standard rammed right up your derriere!