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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 4% Rotten Page   1   B- "Norbit ends up a patchy oddity, but remains the closest Eddie Murphy has come to recapturing his mislaid sense of danger."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf C "Eddie Murphy steals more than a few ideas from Tyler Perry for his multi-character comedy that has Murphy playing an obese wench named Rasputia, to whom Norbit is married."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Stealing from Date Movie: now that is pathetic."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs A "Eddie Murphy reaches into his comedic closet and pulls out a hysterical hit."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Murphy may be at the top of his game, but Norbit is stuck on autopilot."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D- "When it comes to spectacularly unfunny comedy, the supposedly very funny Eddie Murphy sure knows how to pick 'em."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "Regrettably, Norbit is too cowardly, sophomoric and woefully tacky...[it's] lazy and disarming in its myopic presentation of a modern-day minstrel show."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "It's probably impossible to enforce a complete ban on the use of fat suits in Hollywood comedies, but certainly it's time for an extended moratorium on them."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/4 "Norbit takes the idea behind The Nutty Professor 2 -- that Eddie Murphy can play just about every character in the movie -- and strips it of all charm and humor."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "It's never a good thing when you're supposed to be cheering for the underdog, but in the back of your mind you can't help but think that he somewhat deserves to be getting all that sand kicked in his face."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Once we've seen Murphy in the fat suit, the joke is over."   Light Views   John Larsen 4/10 "Usually, it takes six or so months for an actor to parlay a Best Supporting Actor nomination into a cringe-worthy career-derailing performance in an unbelievably awful picture."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 1/5 "click for review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 1/5 "Norbit has something to offend everyone... All you need is Isaiah Washington and Michael Richards in the movie spewing homophobic and racial slurs to make it complete."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 1/4 "When Eddie (hopefully) wins an Oscar anyway for his Dreamgirls turn later this month, he should take the opportunity to publicly apologize for this."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C- "...it is another Eddie altogether, Eddie Griffin, that gives the film its few laughs."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 0/4 "Norbit is so bad, it has redefined my concept of Hell."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik F "If Norbit doesn't kill cinema, nothing will."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "If nothing else, the movie proves that years of PG-rated kiddie stuff hasn't dulled Murphy's edge. He's just rusty, that's all."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "Eddie Murphy has taken his love for playing multiple roles, Jerry Lewis, crude humor, himself, and -- to be charitable -- his deeply conflicted feelings about women, and made a movie that is disgusting, unfunny, dull, and an appalling waste of talent."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/5 "... admirável que, com um passado já tão recheado de atrocidades cinematográficas, Eddie Murphy tenha conseguido, com Norbit, a proeza de realizar aquele que, sem dúvida, é o pior filme de sua já desastrosa carreira."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 0/5 "If I thought hijacking a plane carrying prints of the film and crashing it into Murphy's house would put a stop to it, I'd go out and buy a box cutter right now."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/4 "A film like Anchorman turns everyday scenarios upside down and then runs for a touchdown; here, the jokes stop short at basic perversion."   Slant Magazine   Rob Humanick 1/5 "A few more movies like Norbit and Eddie Murphy won't have a fanbase to kick around anymore."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg F "... a strange, toneless collection of fat jokes, fart jokes and foul sex gags."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/5 "There's a formula to these Murphy-in-makeup comedies, which Norbit closely follows."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "There are so many problems with Norbit that when you try to pin one down, another one splooges out elsewhere."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 0/4 "It's a thoughtless, cancerous, viral, irresponsible pollution whose existence speaks ill of the society that produced it and of any society that would endorse or defend it."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 4% Rotten Page   1