Critics are just messed up now. How do Sausage Party get an 82% on RT and this gets 9% on RT? Sausage Party is full of dirty humor but atleast Norbit has more laughs.Go see this film. You won't regret it.

Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to Norbit (2007)Plot In A Paragraph: Norbit (Murphy) a shy, mild-mannered guy, is married to an abusive, obsessively fat, sex hungry woman (also Murphy) named Rasputia.If Dreamgirls opened any doors for Murphy, Norbit shut them again!! All the criticisms aimed at this movie are correct, and personally, I didn't find much to laugh at, but boy did the two kids (12 year old boy and a 8 year old girl) I watched it with, laugh their little ass's off!! I mean hysterical laughing!! I smiled and laughed more at them laughing, than I did at the actual movie. They were still saying "How YOU doing??" In the voice of Rasputia as I wrote this.A lot of the jokes are recycled as we watch Rasputia break bed after bed, whilst jumping on Norbit for sex!! We see her repeatedly fart and honk the car horn with her boobs!! All of which had the kids laughing. I have to say, watching the kids laughing, does make me warm to a movie. I will say this Thandie Newton has never looked hotter in a movie. Norbit was a hit, grossing $95 million at the domestic box office to end the year, the 30th highest grossing movie of the year. This would be the last movie with Murphy in front of the camera, to finish in the top 30 movies of the year, or to make a decent profit at the domestic box office.

Norbit was definitely disappointing to me when i decided to give it a try one night. The "jokes" were pretty bland and most fell flat. And some scenes were just gross and not even funny. I feel like this movie tried wayyy to hard to be funny, and ultimately failed at it. And to see Eddie Murphy and Cuba Gooding Jr. In this is just depressing! Come on guys, you are great actors, you can do sooo much better than this! I did chuckle a few times, but that was the extant of the laughter. The rest of the movie was just chock full of bad acting, dull humor, bad jokes, and uncomfortable scenes. I would love to actually see a good Eddie Murphy comedy, Daddy Day Care is much better than this one! Much better! I was just glad when this crude, unfunny trifle was over with. 3/10 for Norbit, and I think a 3 is more then fair! Hopefully Cuba Gooding Jr. will make better movie choices, course he did do daddy day Camp, oh god that review is for another day

Eddie had crossed over into the g and pg film arena and his original fans that knew him from "Raw" had been yearning to hear the Eddie Murphy they grew to love. He delivered that and then some. This is not a film for those who like him in pg and g rated films. Nor if you are sensitive about jokes about people overweight. I hadn't seen anyone deliver multiple roles in such a funny way since Richard Pryor. A must see for any of you who enjoyed him in Raw or Delirious. It will have you rolling from the onset. His facial expressions and sounds as Norbit are a dry humor but his role as Rasputia is blatant humor. He personifies an angry wife down to the letter.