Comedy

Norbit

Tollin/Robbins Productions

Davis Entertainment

DreamWorks Pictures

Eddie Murphy Productions

United States of America

English

Eddie Murphy

Thandiwe Newton

Terry Crews

Clifton Powell

Lester Speight

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Eddie Griffin

Katt Williams

Floyd Levine

Anthony Russell

Pat Crawford Brown

Jeanette Miller

Michael Colyar

Marlon Wayans

Alexis Rhee

Khamani Griffin

Austin Reid

Lindsey Sims-Lewis

China Anderson

Kristen Schaal

Rob Huebel

Michael Vossler

Travis Vossler

Mason Knight

Jonathan Robinson

Lola St. Vil

Richard Gant

Susan Beaubian

John Gatins

Laura Ortiz

Miles Robbins

Charlie Murphy

Hayley Marie Norman

Sara Sanderson

Smith Cho

Esther Friedman

Lonnie Henderson

Carmen Rojas

Marianne Muellerleile

Frank Langley

Don Johnson

Jesse Mendel

Kayren Wallace

Kendra McCulty

Hakeem Washington

Fumi Desalu-Vold

Sammy B. Willis

Marc De'Antone

Vince Micelli

Eurydice Davis

George Angelo

Anthony Vela

Sally Stevens

Kathryn Bostic

Louis Price

Carmen Twillie

Maxine Waters Willard

Oren Waters

John J West

Terry Wood

Craig Copeland

Wendy Fraser

Alex Brown

Bob Joyce

Teri Eiko Koide

Gerald White

Guy Maeda

Clydene Jackson

Kipp Lennon

Alvin Chea

Josef Powell

Darryl Phinnessee

Donna Medine

Neisha Folkes-LeMelle

Tyrell Washington

Kristin Denehy

Reginald Jackson

Lucas Raynaud

Celestina Aladekoba

Bruna Rubio

Anastacia McPherson

David Newman

Ned Bastille

Clark Mathis

Brian Robbins

John Davis

Camille Friend

Henry Kingi Jr.

David Ronn

Michael Tollin

Seth Yanklewitz

Jay Scherick

Juel Bestrop

Clay A. Griffith

David B. Householter

Molly Maginnis

Henry Kingi

Andy Gill

Gregory J. Barnett

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Lars P. Winther

Kazu Hiro

Rick Baker

Clinton Wayne

Angela Stauffer

Julian Brain

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Eddie Murphy does just about everything here, except make me laugh, in this unsophisticated romp that makes the "Carry On" films look like Ingmar Bergman. To be fair he's adaptable - thanks almost entirely to the skills of the Oscar nominated make-up team (33 folks get credited!) - as he plays the eponymous geek, his own larger-than-life wife "Rasputia" and his adopted Chinese dad "Wong" who runs the orphanage into which he was unceremoniously dumped as a baby. When fellow orphan "Kate" (Thandiwe Newton) returns to their hometown, he is desperate to rekindle their childhood friendship but he's gonna have to deal with his own wife and her fiancé "Delon" (Cuba Gooding Jr). Whilst all of this is going on, the orphanage takes centre stage as "Rasputia" and her hoodlum brothers have designs on the place that is going to makes matters even more awkward for "Norbit" and his romantic plans with "Kate" who is looking to buy the place, too. Can he save the day and get the gal? It might've looked good on the drawing board or perhaps Eddie Murphy just surrounded himself with people ill-prepared to just say no, but after about five minutes it's clear that this is for his die-hard fans only. It reinforces just about every stereotype going but not in a funny way. It's all written as if the audience were supposed to be eight years old watching a pantomime with fake boobs, wobbly bits where there shouldn't be and, well you get the drift. On the plus side, it doesn't hang about and the action comes quick and fast but to be honest, I found myself cringing way more than smiling, let alone giggling. Johnny Depp just about got away with wearing purple in "Wonkaland" in 2005 but it doesn't work for Murphy here at all. Nor does anything else. Puerile and vulgar, sorry.

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