Norbit (Full Screen)
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Actor: Eddie Murphy, Thandie NewtonBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Norbit (Full Screen)
Movie Review: Considering I don't normally like comedy, this movie was really funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not much of a comedy gal, but my husband is so I picked this movie up to watch one evening and I couldn't stop laughing.
The real beauty in this movie was that the casting was spot on. Every actor played their part in an exceptional manner, and of course the three characters that Eddie Murphy plays were all so different, authentic, and funny.
Eddie Murphy plays Norbit, a shy, polite, orphan with a heart of gold. He also plays his wife (Rasputia), a domineering, opinionated, 400 lb black woman, as well as an elderly Chinese man who raised him.
There are so many funny and brilliant scenes in this movie, and I knew within the first 10 minutes of watching this movie that I was going to love it.
I liked this movie more than the Nutty Professor, although I don't expect it will be as well remembered. I would not say this movie is appropriate for children, but young adults and older should enjoy this.
Summary of Norbit (Full Screen)
Teaming up with the same people that brought us the Nutty Professor films Eddie Murphy creates several unforgettable characters in this hilarious new comedy. Norbit is a mild-mannered outcast engaged to his super sized childhood bully Rasputia. When the love of his life returns he must scheme to escape the grasp of his controlling fianc to find happiness.Runtime: 102 minFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 097361245942 Manufacturer No: 124594Eddie Murphy stars and stars in this very broad and raucous comedy that finds the Oscar-nominated Dreamgirls actor revisiting the multiple-character shtick that worked so well for him in Coming to America and The Nutty Professor. The latter's makeup-effects artist, Rick Baker, once again transforms Murphy into a variety of grotesques and caricatures, including the hugely fat, monstrous Rasputia, the Asian Mr. Wong, and the timorous Norbit, a nervous orphan raised by Wong and married to Rasputia. The latter, a member of a construction family with a plan to turn Wong's orphanage into a strip club, is a relentlessly narcissistic shrew who puts the screws on Norbit at every turn, especially when he rediscovers his love for an old friend, Kate (Thandie Newton). Kate's wish to buy and maintain the orphanage herself is secretly compromised by her fianc? (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who is in cahoots with Rasputia's family and using Norbit to further their agenda.
Extraordinarily silly, frequently crude and mean-spirited to an extreme, Norbit is far more sour than The Nutty Professor. But there are moments of inspiration, especially a wedding interrupted by wannabe pimps who launch a profane gospel groove, and a dog that talks to Norbit while he is semi-conscious. For the most part, though, Norbit impresses as a technical marvel utilizing careful shot design and skillful editing. Murphy participates in several remarkable, three-character scenes in which he happens to be all three characters, and those moments move so briskly it's easy to forget one is looking at a comic stunt. --Tom Keogh
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