First of all, I feel I need to hang my head in shame for even considering watching this dreadful movie... I am chastised!
Eddie Murphy used to be funny once, even when he was being racist, sexist, homophobic - or all three at once. Just check out Delirious or 48 Hours or Coming to America. The guy made good films. But now? I'll admit, I wasn't a fan of The Nutty Professor, but at least he gave his Sherman character some heart. In this film, we are seeing a really nasty side to Eddie Murphy's true persona. Stereotypes of Chinese people, Black women, big women in particular... it says something about him if he derides in the most degrading ways a large number of people who watch his films. I go the USA quite regularly, and when I see movies at the 'theater' out there, usually whole families - grandparents, teens and babies in their mom's arms - will go check out a film together; and yeah, there are a lot of big people in the States. There are a lot of big women, there are big… more »

First of all, I feel I need to hang my head in shame for even considering watching this dreadful movie... I am chastised!
Eddie Murphy used to be funny once, even when he was being racist, sexist, homophobic - or all three at once. Just check out Delirious or 48 Hours or Coming to America. The guy made good films. But now? I'll admit, I wasn't a fan of The Nutty Professor, but at least he gave his Sherman character some heart. In this film, we are seeing a really nasty side to Eddie Murphy's true persona. Stereotypes of Chinese people, Black women, big women in particular... it says something about him if he derides in the most degrading ways a large number of people who watch his films. I go the USA quite regularly, and when I see movies at the 'theater' out there, usually whole families - grandparents, teens and babies in their mom's arms - will go check out a film together; and yeah, there are a lot of big people in the States. There are a lot of big women, there are big Black women - and these are the target audience of this man's films. It seems that he's forgotten that!!! When I watched this film, some folks actually got up and left; presumably they didn't see the trailer? I didn't, until I returned to the UK - if I had, I wouldn't have bothered with the movie. Some kids left, still laughing at the fat woman Norbit married, making nasty remarks about her appearance....
I know that there's space for all kinds of humour - even stuff as puerile and offensive as this - but I felt bad having watched the film. It was confusing, stupid, coarse, vulgar, badly acted and poorly scripted - what were Thandie Newton and the others thinking??? The one shining light about all of this is that this movie was released right after Murphy got nominated for an Oscar; apparently the Academy were so embarrassed by this film, they voted in droves for Alan Arkin!!!! Poetic justice!
In short - avoid this film; you'll feel ashamed after watching it. I know I did.