Norbit (Full Screen)

starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton See Larger Image List Price: $19.99 You Pay Only: $14.99 You Save: $5.00 (25%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 0097361245942 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Dreamworks Video Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Dreamworks Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 05, 2007 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 10760 Studio: Dreamworks Video Theatrical Release Date: February 09, 2007 Related Items: Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (Widescreen Edition) Ghost Rider (Widescreen Edition) Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition) Shooter (Full Screen Edition) Wild Hogs (Widescreen Edition) see more Editorial Review: Description: 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. Amazon.com: 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 Stills from Norbit (click for larger image) Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Hysterical Eddie Murphy Characters (5 Total) QUICK PLOT - An adult orphan falls for his childhood sweetheart, but is married to a mean "FAT Lady". A very funny movie using traditional Eddie Murphy humor in the five characters that he plays. Eddie Murphy as a child orphan gets "pretend married" to his childhood sweetheart, but shortly after his sweetheart leaves the orphanage because she gets adopted. A new "BIG" girl emerges in the orphanage who protects him from bully's - and they ultimately get married as adults. The combination of the "BIG" girl's invasive personality with her corrupt brothers, keeps Eddie Murphy's character in misery all of the time. Then one day his childhood sweetheart returns in his life, and all hell breaks loose when he can't stop thinking about her. Rating: - How you doin'? This movie was quite comical. Eddie Murphy, once gain, outdid himself. I did find the movie to be a little foul, which is not suprising. The movie had a great lesson in it: Don't be with someone because it's comfortable but be in a relationship where you're truly happy. Rating: - Very Funny!!! I thought this was a really good funny movie! Eddie Murphy is back doing what he does best! He plays Norbit Rice, and his mistreating obese wife, Rasputia. In the middle of the movie, Norbit's childhood girlfriend, Kate comes back to town, hoping to buy the orphanage that she and Norbit grew up in. Kate's fiance and Rasputia's brothers try to stop Kate so they can open a strip club. Later, Norbit finally gets courage with the help of some friendly pimps, and Mr. Wong to tell Kate the truth and win her love. If you love comedies, and Eddie Murphy, you'll love NORBIT!!!! Rating: - If Eddie Murphy, a once great talent... ...keeps putting out crap like this, I predict his movie career will soon be referred to in the past tense. This is just awful, somewhere between a human acted cartoon and tripe. The first fifteen or so minutes have a couple of laughs, from there it goes straight downhill. This is so bad it's not even worth the time to watch it if you somehow acquired it for nothing. I always loved Eddie Murphy, and I know no one can hit a homerun every time out, but this just blows chunks, sucks, you fill in whatever appropriate phrase you'd like. Avoid it like a mother-in-law with a rent bill in her hand. Rating: - Norbit Shortly after this movie was released I started hearing notions & comments on entertainment websites & shows that this movie would prevent Eddie Murphy from winning the Oscar for his performance in DREAMGIRLS. I heard that this movie was crass, buffoonish, stupid, ignorant, mean-spirited, yadda..yadda..yadda so I avoided seeing it till recently. This is the first Eddie Murphy comedy that I've seen in a long time and I had no expectations about what I'd see but this was the most hilarious movie I've seen in quite a while. The makeup artist who transformed Eddie into Rasputia & Mr. Wong is to be commended as are the technical wizards who enabled us to see Norbit & Rasputia in the same scenes in a seamless manner. This is a basic story of a sad sack in Norbit who grows from an abandoned baby to the cuckolded husband of an overweight bully of a wife (both played by Murphy). Norbit's sad life is trucking along until he discovers his wife's infidelity and the return of his childhood sweetheart - these events make him realize that he wants & deserves true love & happiness. The supporting cast of Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Kat Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terry Crews and Marlon Wayans as the "power tap guru" definitely worked well off of Eddie's "characters". Frankly, several members of my family have questioned my taste level after learning how much I enjoy this movie but I just tell them "different strokes for different folks" and ... Read More More Norbit (Full Screen) Reviews Browse for similar items by category: Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - General Love & Romance - By Theme - Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - Love Triangle Comedy Stars - Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - Eddie Murphy ( M ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Murphy, Eddie ( N ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Newton, Thandie

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