Eddie Murphy stood 10 toes down on his decision to make his 2007 comedy “Norbit” after he earned his first Oscar nomination for “Dreamgirls.” The conversation came about while Murphy was appearing on ...

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Film fans sometimes reference the “Norbit” theory, and Eddie Murphy is the reason why. In 2006, he delivered a standout performance in 'Dreamgirls,' with many predicting an Oscar win that would cement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaning into every racial stereotype imaginable to generate humor, Norbit feels like a warped mirror of the wholesome yet ...

Eddie Murphy has no regrets about making the 2007 comedy film Norbit. The comedian and actor, 64, said he thinks the movie, which was highly-criticized at the time of its release, is “funny … to this ...

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Although Eddie Murphy worked with Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson in the aughts, he might have been his own favorite leading lady. The Oscar nominee recently defended his 2007 comedy Norbit as a “funny” ...

Eddie Murphy plays three roles in his latest Nutty Professor clone, titled Norbit. And Eddie Griffin still steals his movie from him. Murphy, Oscar-nomination aside, has spent much of the past decade ...

“Norbit” (2007, Paramount, PG-13, $30) A series of fat jokes masquerading as a movie, Eddie Murphy’s latest watch-me-play-all-the-characters comedy has none of the playful sweetness of “The Nutty ...

Three Eddie Murphys is three too many in Norbit, a low-rent farce that sees this year's most unlikely Oscar nominee returning to the prosthetics-based pratfalls of his Nutty Professor days. With its ...

Think Norbit is Eddie Murphy's worst movie? Uh, the actor would like to remind you about the existence of The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Holy Man. Murphy pushed back at the assertion that his ...