Ok. So I’ve avoided the film Norbit starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles for as long as I could, considering some of the worst reviews of 2007 and a couple of Razzie Awards to its name. You say you don’t know what a Razzie Award is? Well I’ll tell you. It’s pretty much an award given to the worst films of any given year. In 2007 this film and Lindsey Lohan’s I Know Who Killed Me pulled through with the most nominations and wins of the year. Well, I finally gave into the urge of watching a terrible movie just for the sheer joy of knowing what I am watching is pure shit. And what I found is…….I kinda liked it.
The film, as I said before, stars Eddie Murphy in three roles: one of the extremely nerdy main actor Norbit, another as his loud and obese wife Rasputia, and the last as an Oriental man Mr. Wong who both runs a restaurant and raised Norbit in his orphanage. Growing up, Norbit’s best friend in the orphanage is a girl named Kate Thomas. They like each other so much that they even put on a fake marriage by exchanging ring pops to signify their love. But it all comes to an end when Kate is adopted and taken away never to be seen by Norbit again. As time passes, Norbit is alone most of the time until the large Rasputia claims him for herself, and then eventually get married. Things go fine until one day Kate comes back to town.
Besides just wanting to see how bad a movie can actually be, I had some hope for the film because I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor movies when I was growing up. After seeing Norbit, I guess I can understand why it may be offensive to some people, every scene pretty much has a fat joke of some kind, but I feel like I’ve seen worse movies than it in 2007. No matter how crude and stupid it was, I was fairly entertained. Maybe that makes me a simpleminded person who gets his kicks from seeing people made fun of…but I don’t think so. The film received criticism for the one dimensional characters and the blatant stereotypes placed on all of them. But I say, forget all of the morals you really have and just enjoy a really stupid movie and know that you’re much more classy than the material you’re witnessing (hopefully…). I’m not ashamed to say I enjoyed one of the worst films of last year. Well…maybe a little ashamed.
Landon Cassman: Through boredom and pure enjoyment I find myself always involved in either film or music related endeavors. This is one of them.
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Through boredom and pure enjoyment I find myself always involved in either film or music related endeavors. This is one of them.
nikki (nikki) says:
(Posted June 27th, 2008 at 5:22 pm)
I wasn’t especially offended by the stereotypes and whatnot in Norbit… my issue with it was it was Eddie Murphy. In a fat suit. Again. I’m beginning to think the guy’s stuck in a rut (and not an especially amusing one, unfortunately).