{"id":129728,"date":"2025-08-08T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129728\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:35:13","slug":"eddie-murphy-defends-norbit-shares-worst-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129728\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy defends Norbit, shares worst movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Eddie Murphy\u2019s filmography is varied, full of both hits and misses. Perhaps the most infamous of the misses is Norbit, a 2006 film that came out around the same time that Murphy was an Oscar front-runner for his role in Dreamgirls. Norbit was received so poorly that the conventional wisdom is that it cost Murphy the Oscar. (\u201c[T]he image of him in a grotesque fat suit and hot-pink bikini as Rasputia\u2014a malevolent, flatulent Big Momma-type who terrorizes everyone she encounters\u2014spurred his precipitous decline,\u201d says a 2009 A.V. Club feature<\/a> referencing the two movies.) But Murphy still likes the movie, and wouldn\u2019t even rate it as his worst.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked his Mount Rushmore of movies he\u2019s made during an interview with Complex<\/a>, Murphy quipped, \u201cIt\u2019d be easier to name my four worst movies.\u201d He only actually gets around to naming two\u20142002\u2019s The Adventures Of Pluto Nash and 1998\u2019s Holy Man\u2014before getting derailed to defend Norbit as at least better than those other two. \u201cI love Norbit,\u201d Murphy says. \u201cYou know, Norbit came out right after I got the Oscar nomination, so there were articles like \u2018How can he get an Oscar, he did this!\u2019 \u2026 I wrote Norbit with my brother Charlie, and we think Norbit is funny. And here\u2019s the thing with Norbit\u2026 when it came out, it got voted for Razzies for Worst Actor Of The Decade, Worst Actor, and Worst Actress\u2026 I was like come on, the shit ain\u2019t that bad!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murphy goes on to say that he did Holy Man instead of Rush Hour. \u201cThey came to me, it was two scripts. [There\u2019s] Rush Hour, and it\u2019s going to be action, comedy, and you\u2019re gonna be with Jackie Chan\u2026 summertime, running, all this physical stuff. And this other one was you in a robe, in Miami. I was like\u2026 this is a no brainer! And we went to Miami, made a horrendous film, but it was easy.\u201d As for the actual best films Eddie Murphy has made, the comedian cites The Nutty Professor, Coming To America, Shrek, and Dreamgirls. <\/p>\n