Norbit (Full Screen)
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Actor: Eddie Murphy, Thandie NewtonBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
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: well worth watching
Summary: 5 Stars
Norbit is somewhat of a crude comedy. It makes fun of overweight people, as well as some rather graphic scenes such as a baby being thrown out the window of a car and rolling down all the way to the front doorstep of the adoption center. However, it also has some fresh comedy segments that are absolutely hilarious.
The story's about a nerd who falls in love with a girl as a child, only for her to suddenly move away one day and a much bigger and stronger girl becomes his girlfriend instead. The nerd is obviously terrified of the girl and becomes her boyfriend *only* because he has no choice, haha.
After the nerd grows up, he's still involved in a relationship with the same woman, and lots of jokes making fun of his overweight girlfriend/wife take place. I like how the family of the woman threatens to the nerd "If you EVER hurt her feelings, I will rip you apart!" scaring the poor nerd even MORE! He has to worry about his wife along with some members of her family.
One scene even involves the wife making her nerdy husband stay in the basement of their home.
Anyway, one day the nerd gets a surprise visit from the girl he originally fell in love with as a child, and he finds out quickly he wants to be with her... except his wife gets in the way of any possibility of that happening.
Overall it was just a really funny movie that I recommend everyone watches, despite some offensive humor in certain parts.
Summary of Norbit (Full Screen)
Norbit (Eddie Murphy) has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). Things get worse when he?s forced into marriage by the mean, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia (Eddie Murphy). Just when Norbit?s hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate (Thandie Newton), moves back to town. In the comedy Norbit, he?ll show them all that nice guys sometimes finish first.Eddie 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 fiancé (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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