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Coming To America/The Golden Child/Norbit (Box Set)

Coming To America/The Golden Child/Norbit (Box Set)

Suitable For 15 Years And Over.Info Stars: Eddie Murphy, Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones

Director: John Landis

Summary: This triple bill of Eddie Murphy films includes the comedy COMING TO AMERICA in which a prince and heir to the throne insists on choosing his own wife. He sets off for America to find his princess, and that's where the adventure begins... THE GOLDEN CHILD tells the story of an innocent-minded social worker who is told by an exotic foreign woman that his destiny is to save 'The Golden Child', a boy with mystical powers who has been kidnapped by an evil cult... In the oversized comedy NORBIT, Murphy dons his fat suit once again to play the title role, a shy and retiring man who's trapped in a loveless marriage with a whale of a woman named Rasputia (also played to comic effect by Murphy). When his childhood love comes back to town, he sees an opportunity for real happiness...

In COMING TO AMERICA Prince Akeem is heir to the throne of Zamunda. He insists on choosing his own wife by setting off for America to find her. There the fun begins...

THE GOLDEN CHILD is the story of an innocent-minded social worker who is told by an exotic foreign woman that his destiny is to save 'The Golden Child', a boy with mystical powers who has been kidnapped by an evil cult...

Norbit (Eddie Murphy) is a shy fellow, raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage/Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs, Tennessee. As a child, Norbit comes to love Kate, a fellow orphan, but the soulmates are separated when Kate is adopted. Enter Rasputia, an aggressive, plus-sized 10-year-old who protects him from bullies and demands his romantic loyalty, much like her thuggish older brothers demand 'protection' money from all the merchants in Boiling Springs. Rasputia and Norbit eventually marry--and the peevish adult Rasputia is played to great comic effect by Eddie Murphy in a fat suit. Although Rasputia is controlling, unfaithful, hideous-looking, and always madder than a hornet, she and Norbit make a life together, albeit one based on inertia, fear, and complacency.

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amazon.co.uk Coming To America

Half of the characters in this 1988 John Landis potboiler seem to be played either by Eddie Murphy or costar Arsenio Hall, swaddled in elaborate Rick Baker makeup appliances that render them unrecognisable but also weirdly immobile. As a pampered African prince who journeys incognito to Queens, New York, to find a bride who will love him just for himself, Murphy manages to look smug and naive at the same time. There are enjoyable sequences of Murphy's Prince Akeem applying his lordly manner to his new job in a fast-food emporium, and falling for the boss's spirited daughter (Shari Headley), who teaches him how to party down, American style. But the fish-out-water premise is never fully exploited. Star spotters will have a field day locating Cuba Gooding Jr., Donna Summer, Louie Anderson, Vondie Curtis Hall, E.R.'s Eriq La Salle, and Samuel L. Jackson in their minuscule supporting roles. --David Chute

The Golden Child

Things started going downhill for Eddie Murphy around the time of this 1986 clunker, in which the comic actor plays a social worker predicted to be the saviour of a kidnapped child, who has special powers to heal the Earth. Dennis Feldman's script and director Michael Ritchie (The Candidate), a once-thoughtful satirist, stumble over every link in a chain of fantasy-fueled sequences. Murphy phones it in, and Charles Dance (Pascali's Island) looks foolish in retrospect. --Tom Keogh

Norbit

Eddie Murphy stars and stars in this very broad and raucous comedy that finds the Oscar-nominated Dreamgirls actor revisiting the multiple-character shtick that worked so well for him in Coming to America and The Nutty Professor. The latter's makeup-effects artist, Rick Baker, once again transforms Murphy into a variety of grotesques and caricatures, including the hugely fat, monstrous Rasputia, the Asian Mr. Wong, and the timorous Norbit, a nervous orphan raised by Wong and married to Rasputia. The latter, a member of a construction family with a plan to turn Wong's orphanage into a strip club, is a relentlessly narcissistic shrew who puts the screws on Norbit at every turn, especially when he rediscovers his love for an old friend, Kate (Thandie Newton). Kate's wish to buy and maintain the orphanage herself is secretly compromised by her fiancé (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who is in cahoots with Rasputia's family and using Norbit to further their agenda.

Extraordinarily silly, frequently crude and mean-spirited to an extreme, Norbit is far more sour than The Nutty Professor. But there are moments of inspiration, especially a wedding interrupted by wannabe pimps who launch a profane gospel groove, and a dog that talks to Norbit while he is semi-conscious. For the most part, though, Norbit impresses as a technical marvel utilising careful shot design and skillful editing. Murphy participates in several remarkable, three-character scenes in which he happens to be all three characters, and those moments move so briskly it's easy to forget one is looking at a comic stunt. --Tom Keogh

Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Year: 1986
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Runtime: 312 minutes
Certification: Suitable For 15 Years And Over.
Catalogue Number: P H E 9646
Keywords: Golden, Coming, America, Child, English, Comedy, General, Eddie, Murphy, Romance, Norbit
Genre: Comedy

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