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Norbit

Norbit (2007)

★ 5.67 1h 41m Comédie

L'histoire de Norbit Albert Rice a tout d'un conte de fées. Recueilli et élevé par un vieux restaurateur chinois, Mr. Wong, ce gentil petit orphelin rencontre à huit ans la douce et jolie Kate, dont il tombe éperdument amoureux. Un cruel destin ne tarde pas à les séparer. A neuf ans, Norbit devient à son corps défendant le protégé de Rasputia. Après l'avoir arraché aux griffes de trois brutes, cette gamine méchamment musclée jette son dévolu sur lui. Craignant son redoutable crochet du droit, timide Norbit cède à ses avances et devient son petit ami.Les années passent, il épouse la mégère et tombe sous la coupe de ses trois abominables beaux-frères qui font régner la terreur dans toute la région. Cette histoire serait bien trop triste si Kate, plus radieuse que jamais, ne revenait en ville, bien décidée à lui donner une fin heureuse et à sauver Norbit, fût-ce malgré lui...

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Overview

L'histoire de Norbit Albert Rice a tout d'un conte de fées. Recueilli et élevé par un vieux restaurateur chinois, Mr. Wong, ce gentil petit orphelin rencontre à huit ans la douce et jolie Kate, dont il tombe éperdument amoureux. Un cruel destin ne tarde pas à les séparer. A neuf ans, Norbit devient à son corps défendant le protégé de Rasputia. Après l'avoir arraché aux griffes de trois brutes, cette gamine méchamment musclée jette son dévolu sur lui. Craignant son redoutable crochet du droit, timide Norbit cède à ses avances et devient son petit ami.Les années passent, il épouse la mégère et tombe sous la coupe de ses trois abominables beaux-frères qui font régner la terreur dans toute la région. Cette histoire serait bien trop triste si Kate, plus radieuse que jamais, ne revenait en ville, bien décidée à lui donner une fin heureuse et à sauver Norbit, fût-ce malgré lui...

Cast

  • Eddie Murphy as Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong
  • Thandiwe Newton as Kate Thomas
  • Terry Crews as Big Jack Latimore
  • Clifton Powell as Earl Latimore
  • Lester Speight as Blue Latimore
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. as Deion Hughes
  • Eddie Griffin as Pope Sweet Jesus
  • Katt Williams as Lord Have Mercy
  • Floyd Levine as Abe the Tailor
  • Anthony Russell as Giovanni

Reviews

CinemaSerf 2025-01-06
★ 5
Eddie Murphy does just about everything here, except make me laugh, in this unsophisticated romp that makes the "Carry On" films look like Ingmar Bergman. To be fair he's adaptable - thanks almost entirely to the skills of the Oscar nominated make-up team (33 folks get credited!) - as he plays the eponymous geek, his own larger-than-life wife "Rasputia" and his adopted Chinese dad "Wong" who runs the orphanage into which he was unceremoniously dumped as a baby. When fellow orphan "Kate" (Thandiwe Newton) returns to their hometown, he is desperate to rekindle their childhood friendship but he's gonna have to deal with his own wife and her fiancé "Delon" (Cuba Gooding Jr). Whilst all of this is going on, the orphanage takes centre stage as "Rasputia" and her hoodlum brothers have designs on the place that is going to makes matters even more awkward for "Norbit" and his romantic plans with "Kate" who is looking to buy the place, too. Can he save the day and get the gal? It might've looked good on the drawing board or perhaps Eddie Murphy just surrounded himself with people ill-prepared to just say no, but after about five minutes it's clear that this is for his die-hard fans only. It reinforces just about every stereotype going but not in a funny way. It's all written as if the audience were supposed to be eight years old watching a pantomime with fake boobs, wobbly bits where there shouldn't be and, well you get the drift. On the plus side, it doesn't hang about and the action comes quick and fast but to be honest, I found myself cringing way more than smiling, let alone giggling. Johnny Depp just about got away with wearing purple in "Wonkaland" in 2005 but it doesn't work for Murphy here at all. Nor does anything else. Puerile and vulgar, sorry.