“Norbit,” with Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Katt Williams, Lester “Rasta” Speight and Cuba Gooding Jr. Directed by Brian Robbins, from a ...

Eddie Murphy is soon to find out. Fresh off "Dreamgirls" and the first Oscar nomination of his up-and-down career comes "Norbit," a strange, toneless collection of fat jokes, fart jokes and foul ...

More than once, Eddie Murphy has put on makeup and body padding to play enormously fat characters ("The Nutty Professor") and multiple roles in the same film ("Coming to America").