Norbit [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Eddie Murphy, Thandie NewtonBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks
Blu-ray Reviews of Norbit [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Excrement.
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfunny, pandering, adolescent tripe of the basest kind. This barely deserves a DVD release, let alone one in high-def like Blu-Ray.
Perhaps when more people look down and notice their own expanding midriffs they'll stop seeing overweight people as being there primarily for public amusement, and actually take the problem - and its personal impacts - more seriously.
(Don't get me wrong, here: crude humour is fine - I'm a Southpark and Ren n Stimpy fan from way back, for example. These days, however, a movie that relies almost exclusively on someone's mere physical appearance for laughs is offensive at best, and at worst causes actual damage [any guesses at the number of suicides each year by people who, falling short of some ideal of physical 'perfection', can no longer bring themselves to face another day?])
Perhaps Murphy should have a go at a similar film whose gags rely entirely on a grossly *under*weight person, an amputee, or a member of some amusingly backward ethnic group - and see how many laughs he still gets.
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Description of Norbit [Blu-ray]
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.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
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