peirce-43398 Sexist, racist, and vulgar. I cannot think of anything good to say about this film. If you find humor here, you ought to reflect about your world view

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to Norbit (2007)Plot In A Paragraph: Norbit (Murphy) a shy, mild-mannered guy, is married to an abusive, obsessively fat, sex hungry woman (also Murphy) named Rasputia.If Dreamgirls opened any doors for Murphy, Norbit shut them again!! All the criticisms aimed at this movie are correct, and personally, I didn't find much to laugh at, but boy did the two kids (12 year old boy and a 8 year old girl) I watched it with, laugh their little ass's off!! I mean hysterical laughing!! I smiled and laughed more at them laughing, than I did at the actual movie. They were still saying "How YOU doing??" In the voice of Rasputia as I wrote this.A lot of the jokes are recycled as we watch Rasputia break bed after bed, whilst jumping on Norbit for sex!! We see her repeatedly fart and honk the car horn with her boobs!! All of which had the kids laughing. I have to say, watching the kids laughing, does make me warm to a movie. I will say this Thandie Newton has never looked hotter in a movie. Norbit was a hit, grossing $95 million at the domestic box office to end the year, the 30th highest grossing movie of the year. This would be the last movie with Murphy in front of the camera, to finish in the top 30 movies of the year, or to make a decent profit at the domestic box office.

hopebuild I absolutely loved this movie. I have seen it three or four times now and I still laugh all throughout the movie. The movie is just hilarious and Eddie Murphy does a great job in playing the various rolls. I am saddened to read some of the reviews where people are offended by the humor in Norbit. I guess those people are a lot more sensitive than I am because I thought the humor was fine. I am a big fan of Norbit and would recommend it to anyone as long as you are not over sensitive to fat jokes or racial acknowledgment. I hope that Eddie Murphy keeps coming out with these hilarious movies where he plays multiple rolls because I love them. Norbit reminds me a little bit of a fairy tale.

lakesidentertainment My problem with this film is as follows: It's not offensive. Humour, in my opinion, is not offensive. This film simply lacks quality. This is what would happen if you taught a third grader all the sexual, racial, and societal humour of a thirty-year-old but left them with the brain of a third-grader. Essentially, there is no quality here. Just not funny, and it's not bad enough to fit into that category of "so bad it's good." It's neither funny, racist, offensive or anything at all. It's not worth wasting your time watching. I watched this movie with a girlfriend and didn't chuckle once, I was simply bored. I miss the good old days of Blazing Saddles and good social commentary.