{"id":1952866,"date":"2025-08-10T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1952866"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:06:40","slug":"eddie-murphy-says-one-of-his-worst-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes-deserves-less-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/eddie-murphy-says-one-of-his-worst-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes-deserves-less-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy says one of his worst-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes deserves less hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" Eddie Murphy awkwardly smiling as Norbit. \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/h16902qkMuu5jrZ2jlYAlA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUzOTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/total_film_411\/656aef7ddbeccee0bb374f6ca387b87d\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Funny guy, that Eddie Murphy. Whether he&#8217;s a cop in Beverly Hills or talking the ear off a grumpy, green ogre as an animated donkey, there&#8217;s bound to be laughs incoming. One film that the legendary comedy star swears has some giggles that seem to be overlooked, however, was his 2007 film, Norbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an interview on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I5f-PqC43UU?t=488\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Complex;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Complex<\/a>, Murphy revealed how he still stands by the comedy that now sits as his third-worst-ranked film on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/eddie_murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rotten Tomatoes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> after A Thousand Words and The Adventures of Pluto Nash, with a score of only 9%. The film also came out only a week after he&#8217;d earned an Oscar nomination for his turn in Dreamgirls opposite Beyonce, which many believe impacted his chances of walking home with the shiny gold statue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I love Norbit,&#8221; Murphy confessed. &#8220;Norbit came out right after I got that Oscar nomination. There were articles like, \u2018How can he get an Oscar, he did this?\u2019 They\u2019re two different movies. I wrote \u2018Norbit\u2019 with my brother, Charlie [Murphy], and we think \u2018Norbit\u2019 is funny. Here\u2019s the thing with \u2018Norbit,\u2019 it came out and they gave me a Razzie Award for worst actress, worst actor, and worst actor of the decade. And I was like, \u2018Come on now, shit ain\u2019t that bad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Directed by Brian Robbins, Norbit saw Murphy dip into his familiar schtick of playing more than one role on screen. In this case, it was the titular character Norbit, his large and very much in charge wife, Rasputia, and Chinese orphanage owner, Mr. Hangten Wong, who you can imagine has aged as badly as it sounds. But while critics might&#8217;ve panned the movie, the box office receipts said different, with the movie earning $159 million against a budget of $60 million, so audiences were eating it up at the time. Maybe critics just weren&#8217;t in on the joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For now, if you feel like a laugh, check out our list of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/best-comedy-movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the 25 best comedies to see before you die;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the 25 best comedies to see before you die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Paramount Pictures Funny guy, that Eddie Murphy. Whether he&#8217;s a cop in Beverly Hills or talking the ear off a grumpy, green ogre as an animated donkey, there&#8217;s bound to be laughs incoming. One film that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[337108,305348,305401,319843,320249],"class_list":["post-1952866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-brian-robbins","tag-eddie-murphy","tag-oscar-nomination","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-rotten-tomatoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}