Although it made a lot of money for the studio (Paramount Pictures), the people have spoken.
According to its website, Many a RAZZIE record was broken at this weekend's 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards, which dis-honor Worst Achievements in Film.
Eddie Murphy became the first performer ever to win three of the four Worst Acting trophies in a single year - all for his multiple roles in the film everyone assumes cost him last year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar for DREAMGIRLS. As the nerdy title character in NORBIT, Eddie was named Worst Actor.
Painted orange and sporting about four pounds of Latex, Murphy was also chosen Worst Supporting Actor for his ethnically insensitive portrayal of "Mr. Wong." And, in a wig and sporting about 400-pounds of Latex, Murphy took the trophy as Worst Supporting Actress for his portrayal of the foul-mouthed, ill-tempered harpy Rasputia in the same film.
Playing two characters who may (or may not) have been twins in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME, Lindsay Lohan equaled Eddie's triple "achievement." Nominated individually for each of her characters, Lindsay "won" a pair of Worst Actress statuettes when she received the same number of votes for both roles. And, for a scene in which she appears opposite herself at the film's finale, Lohan was also RAZZed as the year's Worst Screen Couple. The film itself, with a less-than-grand total of 8 "wins" from its 9 nominations, broke the long-standing record for most RAZZIES® "won" by a single film. SHOWGIRLS and BATTLEFIELD EARTH, each with 7 "wins," had previously been the champions. In addition to Lindsay's twinsy "wins," KILLED ME copped the awards as Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie and Worst Remake or Rip-Off (where it competed as both a rip-off of the HOSTEL and SAW teen-torture-porn movies and an oddball remake of the 1960s sitcom THE PATTY DUKE SHOW).
The lone "winner" not associated with either KILLED ME or NORBIT still had something to do with Eddie Murphy. An Eddie-Murphy-Sequel-without-Eddie-Murphy, the pooping, belching, vomiting, cacophonous kiddy "comedy" DADDY DAY CAMP was crowned Worst Prequel or Sequel.
1. Eddie Murphy's career has been on a torried downward spiral ever since he was sued by New York Playwright Gregory L. Hudson, in a $100M dollar copyright infringement lawsuit over the hit movie LIFE, starring Eddie and Martin Lawrence. The lawsuit was filed back in 2002, has been to the Supreme Court of the U.S. and is still pending in the Southern District Court of New York as of today, February 24, 2008. Maybe studios are reluntant to bank on him anymore, forcing him to accept such movies as NORBIT, because so many copyright infringement lawsuit have been filed against him; "coming to america;" "harlem nights;" "life;" "the P.J's;" "nutty professor II;" These lawsuits have cost the studios fortunes and even if they made profits; a big chunck is lost in legal fees and reputations turnished. You can log on to www.poorpennyproductions.com and find information on these lawsuits. Unless Eddie Murphy begin to come clean and properly credit and compensate the true creators of the works he's involved in...his career may well continue in this downward spiral and the "razzies maybe a permenant fixture" in Eddie Murphy's career.
gregory l hudson at 11:29AM on Feb 24th 2008