“Norbit” Podcast Movie Review

03/16/20 • 62 min

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Norbit – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 59

“Everything in this movie is so pathologically unclever.”

In this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky disappear into the roles of white, middle-aged podcast hosts with their review of the outrageously unfunny Norbit.

Eddie Murphy co-wrote and co-produced this series of fart and poop jokes, making Norbit one of the weirdest passion projects ever. He also plays three roles, including the lifelong loser title character and Rasputia, his abusive wife. Rasputia is fat, mean and destructive, essentially a human version of the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Her monstrousness is the film’s one joke, offered in endless non-variations.

The two saving graces to Norbit are Murphy’s go-for-broke performance, and the Oscar-nominated makeup work by Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji. Otherwise, it’s a nonstop series of sloppily constructed comedy bits peopled with racist and misogynist caricatures. Norbit is a movie designed for children that no child should ever be allowed to watch.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss turkey ass, fart snores, power tap teachers and pimp-licious makeovers.

NEW DARES

Evan Almighty (Ben Parker)

Backdraft 2 (The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey)

NORBIT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 9, 2007

Domestic box office: $95.7 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Chapman Crafted Coffee’s First Roast (Single-Origin Guatemala)

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

Why did Wolfie T dare Daniel and Corky to watch Norbit? “Norbit is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, but I only know about five people who have actually seen it. When I saw it in the theatre, my friend and I were the only ones there. When I mention it to people, I get eye rolls, groans, sarcastic laughs, and the most common comment is, “That movie sucks...I haven’t seen it.” No other movie podcast would dare touch this one, not even the one I co-host!”

IMDB synopsis: “A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.”

This week’s referenced movies: The VelociPastor; Love on a Leash; Angels & Demons; Inferno; Fight Club; Bruce Almighty; Backdraft; Top Gun; the Nutty Professor movies; Boomerang; Harlem Nights; Ready to Rumble; Meet Dave; A Thousand Words; the Star Wars prequels; I Know Who Killed Me; Dreamgirls; the Madea movies; Coming to America; Forrest Gump; the Harry Potter movies; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Road House (1989); My Name Is Dolemite

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Boxing argument from Coming to America

“This is our town, and don’t you forget it.”

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Norbit – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 59

“Everything in this movie is so pathologically unclever.”

In this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky disappear into the roles of white, middle-aged podcast hosts with their review of the outrageously unfunny Norbit.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss turkey ass, fart snores, power tap teachers and pimp-licious makeovers.

NEW DARES

Evan Almighty (Ben Parker)

Backdraft 2 (The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey)

NORBIT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 9, 2007

Domestic box office: $95.7 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Chapman Crafted Coffee’s First Roast (Single-Origin Guatemala)

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

IMDB synopsis: “A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.”

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

Boxing argument from Coming to America

“This is our town, and don’t you forget it.”

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Previous Episode

“The VelociPastor” Podcast Movie Review

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The VelociPastor – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 58

“Self-consciously shitty is still shitty.”

Even the director of The VelociPastor believes that it would be a fool’s errand to find meaning in the film. Thankfully, we’ve got the two fools for the job. Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell dig deep into The VelociPastor, a genre sendup inspired by autocorrect.

The VelociPastor stars Greg Cohan as a priest who transforms into a cheap-looking dinosaur. Meanwhile, appealing newcomer Alyssa Kempinski plays Carol, a prostitute with a pancreas of pewter.

An absurd premise played absurdly for absurdity’s sake, The VelociPastor divided the hosts. Corky found the film funny and charming, but Daniel felt that the jokes didn’t land. The VelociPastor certainly leans into its micro-budget ineptitude. However, that pervasively smug self-awareness only makes the labored comedy bits more aggravating.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss wormhole juice, ginger ninjas, dragon warrior antidotes and Aristophanes references.

NEW DARES

Charlie’s Angels (2019) (Charlie)

Kung Pao: Enter the Fist (William K. Wolfrum)

THE VELOCIPASTOR FACTS AND FIGURES

VOD release date: Aug. 13, 2019

Critic scores: 58 on Rotten Tomatoes

This week’s craft beer: Moonraker and Almanac’s Time Bender Hazy DIPA (8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Jaylen Mason

Why did Jaylen dare Daniel and Corky to watch The VelociPastor? “Because I don’t have the courage to watch it myself.”

IMDB synopsis: “After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.”

This week’s referenced movies: Love Actually; Titanic (1997); Love on a Leash; Fight Club; The Birds; Ed Wood; Hard to Kill; Charlie’s Angels (2000); Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Grindhouse; Sharknado; Birdemic; Spider-Man; The Graduate; Schindler’s List; Pan’s Labyrinth; Apocalypse Now; Airplane!; Top Secret!; The Great Escape; Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; God’s Not Dead 2; The Runaway Jury; This Is Spinal Tap; Jurassic Park; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; Dragged Across Concrete; the Star Wars movies; Alien; The Two Popes; The Girlfriend Experience; Hollywood Shuffle; The Foot Fist Way; Citizen Kane

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for The VelociPastor

The pastor becomes...the VelociPastor!

Forbes article about Brendan Steere

“You’re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.”

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Next Episode

“Cats” (2019) Podcast Movie Review

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Cats (2019) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 60

“Jellicle cats are simultaneously the most explained and unexplained things in the world.”

Daniel and Corky are sheltering in place, but the podcast goes on. For their first quarantine episode, Daniel and Corky review Tom Hooper’s wretched musical adaptation of Cats (2019).

Inspired by a book of poems by T.S. Eliot and popularized by cocaine, Cats was always a triumph of spectacle over substance. However, the film version ups the ante with nightmarish special effects that turn the actors into Humanimal hybrids straight out of Dr. Moreau’s laboratory.

A money pit of terrible ideas executed terribly, Cats (2019) stands as a monument to ineptitude and unimaginativeness. Everything looks disturbingly wrong from the very first frame right through to the very last. Meanwhile, the musty and forgettable songs nod to musical genres already outdated by the early 1980s. In other words, if you like mangy cat-blobs singing mangy song-blobs, this is the film for you.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pirate cats, butthole cuts, sexualized cockroaches and Chekhov’s catskin.

CATS (2019) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 20, 2019

Domestic box office: $27 million (production budget: $95 million)

Critic scores: 20 on Rotten Tomatoes; 32 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beers: Urban Roots Brewing’s Isolate (Corky); Moksa Brewing’s Mostra 6 (Daniel)

IMDB synopsis: “A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.”

This week’s referenced movies: The Lion King; Aladdin (1992); The King’s Speech; Les Misérables (2012); Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker; The Phantom of the Opera; Memento; Glass; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Black Panther; The Identical; Sexy Beast; Waiting for Guffman; The Running Man; Feds

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare

Anne Hathaway snot-sings “I Dreamed a Dream”

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