Norbit (2007)
Directed by Brian Robbins
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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(Now we're in Spike Lee, "Do the Right Thing" territory?)
It began as a refreshing novelty in The Nutty Professor, carried over to The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and later provided enough tacked-on mileage to launch Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry's celebrity into the mainstream of popularity with Big Momma's House and Diary of a Mad Blackwoman , respectively.
Maybe we should consider, instead, why films like "Norbit" -- Martin Lawrence's "Big Momma's House" farces and Murphy's "Coming to America" and "The Nutty Professor" come to mind -- are so perennially popular.
Eddie Griffin is a cliche pimp, working at about one-tenth the comic level of his “DysFunktional Family.”
As Mr. Wong he channels Mickey Rooney's sham-Chinese landlord from Breakfast at Tiffany's, swapping his L's for R's ("I don't rike brack!
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Insert The Graduate clichés here.
Eddie Murphy steals more than a few ideas from Tyler Perry ("Madea’s Family Reunion") for his multi-character comedy that has Murphy playing an obese wench named Rasputia, to whom Norbit (Murphy) is married.
Norbit is supposed to be a comedy with heart, but it makes the Farrelly brothers' exercise in obesity and prosthetics, Shallow Hal, look like Schindler's List.
Norbit is supposed to be a comedy with heart, but it makes the Farrelly brothers' exercise in obesity and prosthetics, Shallow Hal, look like Schindler's List.