written by bill corbett and starring eddie murphy. you raised my hopes and then dashed them quite expertly.

It is totally worth five minutes of your time to go check out the video for the Black Crowes' "High Head Blues."

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The Crowes are tiny aliens who invade earth by popping out people's eyeballs and installing control systems in their heads, which they then ride around in. Chris Robinson is the first victim. I think maybe five people ever saw this when it came out, but it's truly awesome.

More silly than funny. People might eat it up though.

Holy cow, does this look terrible. "Stayin' Alive" parody 31 years too late? "Ow, my balls!" jokes? Animal abuse? This is going to be bad. Bad, bad bad.

"Hilarity totally fails to ensue." Truer words have never been spoken.

Was there ever a time when Eddie Murphy was funny? I have vague memories of such an era, but the haze of time makes me doubt myself. Is it really the same person? Could the person in Trading Places be the same person in Norbit?

How the funny have fallen.

I have no shame. I laughed.. I probably won't see it though.

@Log1c: Same here. I laughed, but I'm not proud of it.

Despite myself, I actually laughed twice.

I feel so dirty, like after watching "Requiem for a Dream," but for completely different reasons.

Dunno. I thought it was somewhat funny in a Galaxy Quest sort of way. So yes, I laughed, and I feel no shame.

Was that Riley from Buffy?

Never thought there would be a Norbit tag on io9...

Now for the mind blower.

What if we are all just space ships with tiny people inside. And then those tiny people have tinier people in them! Then those tinier people have even tinier people and so on and so on!

That sounds like an interesting idea, but the second I heard 'Eddie Murphy'...

i liked norbit :-\

< Wonders whatever happened to the Eddie Murphy i used to know... the one that was talented and funny?

Damn Super Skrulls are ruining the entire world aren't they with this damned Secret Invasion!

Here's what I don't understand - the tiny spaceman interact with one another just like humans (as evidenced by Gabrielle Union). So why are they so confused about how to interact with humans? It's a flawed principle.

This was the funniest I've seen Eddie Murphy in a decade.

Looks funny to me. I might be good. Probably rent or PPV it.

@comp_wiz101: yup.

i watched it with no sound (stupid work) and didn't feel like I missed much.

I laughed once. Cat Kicking.

I love cats, but I'm a horrible, horrible person.

So, is Eddie Murphy just flat-ass broke, or does he have a room full of tapioca pudding reviewing screenplays and managing his career for him?

@EBone: Unfortunately its things like this that keep him filthy rich. For every Bowfinger, there are 12 Norbits that make him money. I will say that there are a lot worse things in this world than a non R-rated Eddie Murphy though. Just be glad he's not over in those Epic/Scary/Date Movie pop culture chamber-pot pieces.

Wow, Eddie garners another "worlds lamest" accolade. Who keeps giving this idiot money to make movies?

OMG--They're stealing ideas from ancient Woody Allen movies now? Somehow pairing 31 year old music and 36 year old movie plot seems just pathetic...

The real sci-fi question here is: why doesn't murphy ever get old??

If ever there was evidence of someone selling their soul to the devil in exchange for talent, and then having it taken away, it's Eddie Murphy. Either that, or this is actually a documentary! Maybe Eddie died in the 80s, and he's been replaced by an EddieBot™!

I recall a book from the seventies (sixties?) called 'Gold the Man' in which Earth encounters giant man-shaped aliens.
They capture one, hollow out his head, install a control system and then use him to infiltrate the alien society with two pilots controlling their 'vehicle'.

@broomstick: It's a Dorian Gray thing. He looks forever young, but his movies keep getting worse and worse.

You'd think the guy would learn after Pluto Nash...

@Garrison Dean: Just be glad he's not over in those Epic/Scary/Date Movie pop culture chamber-pot pieces.

You know, he should be foreced to do one of those celluloid abortions as punishment for inflicting Norbit on us.

Kicking cats rock !

eh, i'll watch if someone else pays for the ticket

If he did just one stand-up special he could be right back were he belongs, but stand up actually requires you to work...

Eh, your title has one too many words in it.

So basically this is a ripoff of "Innerspace?"

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Looks surprisingly tolerable. I, too, enjoy the concept and look forward to seeing Bill Corbett's script, but Lord knows just how badly the studio probably screwed it up.

It would be less expensive to make and much funnier if they would just stay inside Mr. Murphy.

i laughed, and will probably end up going to see it, but it wont be my choice!