I thought this movie was funny. I've watched it more than once. I think it's underrated. I don't understand why.

I usually would give this a 10, but my previous viewing makes me think a little differently. I'll return to that point in a moment.If you know your movie trivia like me, you know Eddie Murphy loves playing numerous characters. He plays a WHOLE family in the Nutty Professor movies, a dual role in Meet Dave, and 4 characters in my personal favorite-Coming To America. He does the same here:playing the titular character, his orphanage father, and hilariously-his obese female dog of a wife. The movie is PG-13 and really pushes it. This is why 2 stars have been removed. There is a ton of immoral and unnecessary content:1. Norbit comes home from work to find his wife Rasputia home from work early. Shocked, he looks for her-and catches her in bed with her dance instructor.2. This is followed by a chase after Norbit calls her the "queen of w*ores."3.A man who is about to be married meets up with numerous other women he is already married to. He is just marrying this woman for her moola.4.The whole plot centers on Norbit meeting up with his childhood crush and wanting to spend more time with her. This makes Rasputia jealous and she threatens to kill him if he spends more time with her. May I remind you that this is the same woman who slept with another man!There's also nick-picky stuff: like a man collecting offering in a church and he says "pay for your sins." That's not what that is for. But whatever. I'm giving it an 8 though if I am in the right mood I could give it a 10. If you are in the mood for stupid, this will fit the bill. Otherwise, this will disappoint. Before you complain about the inappropriate comment and the "woman played by a man" aspect-remember that Eddie Murphy is that woman. This is the same guy who played a Grandma that stated at the dinner table that "having relations is beautiful" and made a stand up routine bit about child abuse. This is nothing new. Norbit will satisfy raunchy Eddie Murphy fans-and if you complain-remember that Mulan still exists.

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

I absolutely loved this movie. I have seen it three or four times now and I still laugh all throughout the movie. The movie is just hilarious and Eddie Murphy does a great job in playing the various rolls. I am saddened to read some of the reviews where people are offended by the humor in Norbit. I guess those people are a lot more sensitive than I am because I thought the humor was fine. I am a big fan of Norbit and would recommend it to anyone as long as you are not over sensitive to fat jokes or racial acknowledgment. I hope that Eddie Murphy keeps coming out with these hilarious movies where he plays multiple rolls because I love them. Norbit reminds me a little bit of a fairy tale.