Perhaps worried that he might be taken seriously following his knockout performance in DREAMGIRLS, Eddie Murphy churned out yet another makeup-dependent, script-deficient comedy along the lines of DR. DOOLITTLE and THE NUTTY PROFESSOR — just the kind of junk that spoiled his reputation in the first place.
Unwanted by his birth parents and raised by Mr. Wong (Murphy) — the anti-Semitic and blatantly racist Asian-American owner of the Golden Wonton Orphanage/Chinese restaurant — bland, timid Norbit Albert Rice (Murphy, with a What's Happening! afro, an inexplicable Yiddish accent and a bad underbite), grows up under the thumb of obese, abusive bully Ra...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
102 mins