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DVD : Norbit (Full Screen)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience 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 Studio: Dreamworks Video Theatrical Release Date: February 09, 2007 Sales Rank: 9225 MPN: PARD124594D Related Items:
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)
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 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. ... Read More 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 ... Read More 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 ... Read More Rating: - NorbitShortly 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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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