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Mood:
- Humorous
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Plot:
- Couple RelationsCouplesFamily RelationsDisorderGoofy HeroUnlikely CoupleUnsupportive SpouseFall in Love more...
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Genres:
- Comedy
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary20th Century21st Century
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Place:
- USA
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Audience:
- Date NightTeens
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Humor:
- Grossout HumorSilly HumorSlapstick
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousRealistic
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Norbit, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Norbit
Norbit can be described as humorous. The plot revolves around couples relations, disorder, and family relations. Its comic aspect comes from grossout humor and silly humor. Norbit's main genre is comedy. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. It is located in the USA. Norbit takes place in the 20th century and in contemporary times. It is well suited for a date night and teens.
Summary of Norbit
Norbit (Eddie Murphy, channeling Buckwheat and Woody Allen) is a shy, nebbishy fellow, raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage/Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs, Tennessee. As a child, Norbit comes to love Kate, a fellow orphan, but the soulmates are separated when Kate is adopted. Enter Rasputia, an aggressive, plus-sized 10-year-old who protects him from bullies and demands his romantic loyalty, much like her thuggish older brothers demand "protection" money from all the merchants in Boiling Springs. Rasputia and Norbit eventually marry--and the peevish adult Rasputia is played to great comic effect by Eddie Murphy in a fat suit. Although Rasputia is controlling, unfaithful, hideous-looking, and always madder than a hornet, she and Norbit make a life together, albeit one based on inertia, fear, and complacency.
The bubble bursts when the now-grown Kate (Thandie Newton) returns to Boiling Springs to buy Mr. Wong's orphanage. Norbit's love is rekindled, and he must find a way to end his loveless marriage, save Kate from marrying a crooked philanderer (Cuba Gooding Jr., in a rare villainous turn), and prevent Rasputia's brothers from carrying through with a big con job that would destroy the orphanage and Kate's life. Eddie Murphy, not surprisingly, carries the show, with broad, juvenile humor, fat jokes, and pratfalls, and while he never aims very high, he manages to inject some poignancy into Norbit's and Wong's characters, even as he plays Rasputia strictly for laughs. It's not Shakespeare--it's not even BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE--but the laughs are as big as Rasputia's muumuu.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 9 February 2007 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
Cast and Crew
as Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong
as Kate Thomas
as Deion Hughes
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: A.O. Scott
Salon.com
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- by: Stephanie Zacharek
Users Reviews
- 05.January.2011
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- by: gary myers
- gary myers rated this movie
8/10Great
- 21.March.2009
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- by: gauravarora77
- gauravarora77 rated this movie
2/10Bad
