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Norbit
There were
some really funny moments in this movie, but most of it was
filler between the few funny moments. Honestly how can you
fill in an entire movie with fat girl jokes?
This movie is
basically
Eddie Murphy (Norbit/
Rasputia/Mr. Wong) on parade. They spent more time
changing his makeup and not enough time witting funny
jokes. I suggest you wait for the DVD to see this movie,
that is unless you are a huge
Eddie Murphy fan, and
you want to see him do extra roles. Including the utterly
useless Mr Wong who should have been played by a real
Asian. The only funny thing funny about his character was
when he said he didn't like black people and we know that
its really
Eddie.
If there was
a moral lesson, to be gained from this movie, it would have
to be that no matter what its best to develop a backbone.
That way you are never stuck in a terrible situation with a
terrible girl. This was very much the dominant big girl
dates the spineless gay guy, who is afraid of coming out or
afraid to say no. Only in this case he was a straight guy
who had real issues sticking up for himself, and that was
truly painful to watch.
It did have a
bit of a romantic interlude where
Eddie Murphy (Norbit)
had a crush on his elementary school and orphanage playmate
Thandie Newton (Kate)
Again there
are some funny scenes, but overall this movie was a real
sleeper.
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