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2007 Certificate 12
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A mild-mannered guy (Murphy) who is engaged to a monstrous woman (Murphy) meets the woman of his dreams (Newton), and schemes to find a way to be with her. Read more

Starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Snr., Charles Q. Murphy
Director Brian Robbins
Genres Comedy

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Norbit

A mild-mannered guy (Murphy) who is engaged to a monstrous woman (Murphy) meets the woman of his dreams (Newton), and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Snr., Charles Q. Murphy, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell
Director Brian Robbins
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 42 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 42 mins
HD DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
HD DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: English, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish
Blu-ray: Dutch, Castilian Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, English, Danish, German, Swedish
Released DVD: 09 Jul 2007
Blu-ray: 06 Apr 2009
HD DVD: 09 Jul 2007
Production year: 2007
Format DVD
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  • Eddie Murphy is dweeby orphan Norbit, raised by Mr Wong (also Murphy). His loneliness throws him into the ample arms of... read more on Time Out

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  • 35 out of 39 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [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 !

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  • 17 out of 20 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Worst film of the year

    Oh, Eddie. Oh, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. What have you done? What were you thinking? Were you even thinking at all? After seeing this crap, all I wanted to do was get hold of Eddie Murphy and sit him down and show him some of his old films — you know, films like 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and Coming To America. Just to remind him that he was once a very funny man. Because now it seems that the only time Eddie Murphy is funny on screen is when he's being an ass.

    Norbit is just a mess of a movie. It's nasty, misogynistic, racist, cruel and just not funny. I think I laughed just once through the whole film, and that was at a talking dog (talking dogs are always funny, no matter what anybody else tells you). As a romantic comedy, it lacks any originality. The characters are either stereotyped cliches (Mr Wong, the racist Chinese orphanage owner; Rasputia's dumb-as-a-stump, bully-boy brothers; the fast-talking pimps), deadly dull (Norbit himself) or irredeemably awful — Rasputia. What can I say about her, apart from the fact that she is probably the most evil, vile character to appear on screen since George W Bush gave his last State of The Union address.

    Eddie Murphy should have learned his lesson from the Martin Lawrence abomination, Big Momma's House — the days when you can make fun of fat women, and especially fat black women, are long gone. It's no surprise he didn't win an Oscar for Dreamgirls; the Academy voters must have seen Norbit and immediately burned his name from their minds. The only person who walks away from this wreck with their dignity intact is makeup supremo Rick Baker, who did the prosthetics for Mr Wong and Rasputia. Baker — who has won 6 Oscars and worked on such films as Star Wars, An American Werewolf In London, Coming To America, Men In Black and Hellboy — can hold his head high. His work, as always, is outstanding. Everybody else (yes, including you, Thandie Newton) should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

      • A customer from London, England, United Kingdom, Planet Earth
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    Becoming Jane

    Norbit bounces to number one

    • 15 Mar 2007

    Eddie Murphy comedy Norbit, which features the actor in a fat suit, hit the number one spot this week at the UK box office, bringing in over £1.96 million during its first week of release. The chart, supplied by ACNielsen EDI, saw two other new entries in the top ten; Becoming Jane reached number four, while violent thriller Outlaw followed in fifth place. British comedy Hot Fuzz fell to number two after reigning at the top since mid-February, ahead of comic book adaptation Ghost Rider,... Read more

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Rating breakdown

16,921 Member ratings
  • 100
938
  • 90
319
  • 80
1,572
  • 70
1,414
  • 60
3,377
  • 50
2,092
  • 40
2,506
  • 30
964
  • 20
2,179
  • 10
1,560

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