Synopsis
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
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Cast
- Eddie MurphyNorbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong
- Thandiwe NewtonKate Thomas
- Terry CrewsBig Jack Latimore
- Clifton PowellEarl Latimore
- Lester SpeightBlue Latimore
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Deion Hughes
- Katt WilliamsLord Have Mercy
- Marlon WayansBuster
- Eddie GriffinPope Sweet Jesus
- Richard GantPreacher
Recommendations
- 50
Austin Chronicle
The fun in Norbit is watching Murphy at work – the guy has a knack for bringing the physicality of his comic characters to life. - 40
The New York Times
Not exactly uproarious. But Mr. Murphy, going back at least to his Gumby and Buckwheat days on "Saturday Night Live," has always had the ability to turn broad caricature into something stranger and more inventive. - 30
Washington Post
Much of the movie -- which Murphy wrote with a small posse of collaborators -- is taken up with the torturously dull, not to mention unbelievable, romance between Norbit and Kate (a disappointingly lackluster Newton) and the tedious agenda of Cuba Gooding Jr. as a schemer-manipulator. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
Murphy speaks in a breathy lisp, as if his mouth had been partially buttoned shut, and he doesn't give himself the nerd's traditional redeeming feature of a geeky, slide-rule intellect. Norbit, all frozen gawk, is just a very dim bulb. - 25
New York Daily News
It's hard to know who is the intended audience for this misguided mess. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Mean-spirited and depressing, this horror movie in comedy disguise delights in the twin spectacles of morbid obesity and domestic abuse, of which children are often the target. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
Racially insensitive, politically incorrect and beyond crude. - 20
Los Angeles Times
Murphy and his brother Charlie, who collaborated on the screenplay, seem to have drawn the wrong lesson from the latter's stint on "Chappelle's Show." Where Dave Chappelle used stereotypes to confront prejudice, the Murphys (and their co-screenwriters Jay Scherick and David Ronn) merely squeeze a few grudging drops from caricatures that were wrung dry in the age of vaudeville.
