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I do find it a bit offensive, it just keeps black people stuck in the cycle of making fun of ourselves in order to make a buck. Madea, Big Mama, and the Norbit character are nothing but mammies. Until black people can stop perpetuating the negative stereotypes about ourselves, we will continue to be at the bottom.

I can see where they are coming from but it doesn’t bother me. I grew up around some BIG women. Mother, Grandmother, God-Mother. All of them are beautiful, heavy women. I’m not talking size 16-18 heavy. I’m talking HEAVY. And all of them went to see the movie or wanted to and said it was funny as hell. If they aren’t offended, who am I to be?

anyway thought i was first but that movie was hilarious and that fat lady frustrucia whatever her name was was off the hook in that 2 piece bathing suite at the beach i was lmfao

Sorry ILLEST #1 doesn’t look your first kiddo…lol.

It wasn’t disrespectful at all, now I’m no fat woman but unless you carry on like raspucia (fat character in the movie), it clearly isn’t targeting you, and if you do act like her you probably had it coming!

The movie isn’t about fat black women, it’s about Norbit and his crazed, overbaring wife Raspusha(who happens to be fat and black)…I don’t see what the fuss is about, the movie was funny as hell..We need to stop being sooo serious all the time and enjoy life…We as blacks or whatever we call ourselves nowdays need to stop being so sensitive…It’s comedy people laugh…

I’m sort of divided on the issue but I still think I can wait for this to come to DVD. It just seems to me like we’ve seen this all before from Eddie. He’s proven that he can do other things; I just wish he would stop out of the box more often.

I don’t think that a movie should be what you base your identity on, no one says anyting when they make fun of skinny people besides it’s just comedy

^^step out of the box, I mean.

If it was a fat white character would it be offensive? I think some of us have a tendancy to be a lil too sensitive, nothing about the character sends the message that all or even the majority of over weight “people” black or white act this way. Did anyone feel any generalizations when shallow hal was released?

not disrespectful at all funny

Im sorry. This movie looks horrible. How many times are you gonna see Eddie in a fat suit. And is it me or do they all look like the same character? Meaning this Norbit woman character looks like Mamma Klump.

ANYONE WHO IS OFFENDED BY THIS MOVIE GOT SELF ESTEEM ISSUES AND THEY NEED TO LAY ON SHRINKS COUCH AND COMPLAIN THERE…

AND IM WALKING AROUND IN MY SEXY ASS FAT SUIT ALL DAY AND IM STILL GOING TO SEE IT SO PLEASE…

all in all the movie was very entertaining. i laughed a couple of times. wasn’t exactly what i expected because of the lack of laughs i experienced. the previews were the funniest parts of the movie. i sat there and tried to relate rasputia to someone i knew personally and couldn’t so i didn’t find it offensive, just fun.

I’d Be Lyin If I Said It Wasn’t Funny…But The Funny Was Brought On NOT By Eddie & His Rasputia Comedy. More By The Others In The Movie Like Eddie, Kat, Marlon, & The Chinese Eddie. The ‘Fat’ Shyt Is Gettin Tired And No Matter What Anybody Says It DOES Perpetuate A Stereotype Of Big Women.

i realize men are the only potrayin big women but it is somewhat offensive coming from a man b/c the way they portrayed them is a bit more exaggerated. they feel more hurt b/c they always the butt of jokes and always the ones who love to eat. but hey eddie if fat suits looks good on you then hey i aint mad..madea is anotha story, it really wasnt that much offensive. its eitha dat or black people playin crackheads, thats how the world see us anyways

No one said anything about the movie w/Jack Black, where he was really dating a larger woman but he saw her skinnny ( I can’t recall the name of it), when that came out everyone was in good favor of the film. Why do we have to make a conflict out of nothing. I saw the movie and I enjoyed it. Some of it was pretty dry humor but I did find it funny.
~Sweets~

The people who aren’t offended by this movie probably wouldn’t be offended by minstrel shows either. They’d probably go pay to see them.

Anyone who is offended by this must hate themselves. Come on people its a movie. Now How you doing

I SAW THE MOVIE, I DIDNT THINK IT WAS FUNNY, NOT BECAUSE I THINK HE WAS MAKING FUN OF OBESE WOMEN, BUT I JUST DONT THINK IT WAS FUNNY, THERE WERE A FEW SCENES I LAUGHED AT, BUT NONE OF THEM WERE ABOUT RESPUSHA (WHAT A NAME) OR NORBIT.
BUT I DO UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT PEOPLES PERSPECTIVES, AND WHY THEY WOULD BE OFFENDED.
BUT I TERRIBLY REGRETTED SPENDING $8.50 FOR THIS MOVIE, IT WASNT WORTH IT, IN MY OPINION.

DCPIMP-Yeah that’s the movie Shallow Hal

I think the movie was hella funny! And I agree with Bashyboo, I walk around in my fat suit all day long and I feel extremely confident within myself. And it’s one thing that I give Eddie Murphys take on Rasputia, she had an extremely high self esteem. She didn’t think little of herself at all. So that’s to be commended. In fact, just about all of the big black women that are portrayed on screen today have a high self esteem. It’s all in what ya like. I feel great about myself and there is nothing wrong with me and like Bashyboo said, anyone who took offense to that movie needs to get some mental health cause it’s truly not that serious!

Just when Eddie was starting to get some sort of credibility again with his role in Dream Girls, he goes and does this… how you gonna take 10 steps forward and the take 20 back? Get it together Eddie!

ALSO, I HEARD ON A RADIO TALK SHOW YESTERDAY MORNING, THEM COMPARING TYLER PERRY’S MADEA TO RESPHUSA, RESPUCIA, HOWEVER ITS SPELLED. I GOT KIND OF MAD BECAUSE I THINK THERE IS NO COMPARISON, THE ONLY SIMILARITY THESE 2 WOMEN HAD IN COMMON WAS THE FACT THAT THEY WERE BOTH BIG, AND THAT THEY WERE MEN PLAYING THE PARTS. I LOVE TYLER PERRY AND THE CHARACTER MA’DEA HE CREATES IS A POSITIVE, THE MESSAGE IN HIS MOVIES ARE ALWAYS UPLIFTING AND INSPIRING TO PEOPLE OF ALL RACE, GENDER, AND BACKGROUND, MOST IMPORTANTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN (BLACK FOLK). MA’DEA ALWAYS HAS A POSITIVE MESSAGE, AND HE NEVER MAKES FUN OF BLACK PEOPLE, HE REMINDS US OF THE POWER WITHIN US AND USES THAT TO HELP BRING US BACK UP. THIS RESPUSHA CHARACTER DID NONE OF THE SORT, AND HER STYLE SENSE WAS OFFENSIVE IN ITSELF….LOL
I DONT WANT TO SOUND TOO SERIOUS, BUT PEOPLE ARE DESENSITIZED, BY SAYING ITS JUST A MOVIE, BUT IN ACTUALITY SOME BIG WOMAN MAY HAVE BEEN HURT BY THIS, OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE HAS SINCE THEY ARE STIRRING UP CONTROVESY BEHIND IT.
BUT MY REASON FOR NOT LIKING THE MOVIE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OBESE PART, I JUST DIDNT LIKE IT, I HAVE SEEN BETTER WITH EDDIE MURPHY.

#3 and #20, You two seem understand the broader and deeper statements and ramifications of images like this (Hollywood sure does).

For those of you who are NOT, offended. Read a book. Better yet, read a history or political science book. Then the seemingly ‘oversensitive rantings’ of many of your brothers and sisters will start to ake sense.

…And the stuff your ignorance allows you to laugh at will soon become embarrassing and shameful to you. For real.

I don’t understand why it has to be an African-American woman thing?

Every race has fat woman. But I guess that black woman get portrayed more on the big screen.

People who cant seperate movies or reality T.V. from real life are just sad.

The movie had it funny moments but overall it was WACK. Save your money.

My part was when Eddie Griffin said, Fellas, buy some ribbed condoms(her pleasure), turn them inside out and it’s pleasure for you. LMAO

Let me say this, Eddie has captured the very essence of the current ‘view’ of black women. Respucia was so on point! I now know why folks are upset. (1) We in Denial and (2) It hit wayy close to home. I see this behaviour all around me, daily and some of it I even possess. I’m almost positive that 95% of the sistas who left that movie first words were “I don’t act like that” and the second is “I don’t know any women who act like that” LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!! Even down to how she rocked her ‘natural’ short fro when she didn’t have her weave/wig on at home (as I sit here in the same condition)was on point. Several Brothers in our row, were like “Man so and so act just like that”. Now sure there were parts that were over the top - but sorry, it pegged us in a negative light…alot, but it isn’t fantasy.

The whole ‘he making fun of fat sistas’ is just a smoke screen in my opinion.

The funniest part of the whole movie - - the pain Clifton Powell looked in because he signed on to do the movie, lol

Ok, I LOVED the original Big Momma’s House and Shallow Hal too, but this obese woman thing is played out by now.
Have they ever poked fun at these super-skinny chicks?

just because it opened #1 with a gob of money doesn’t make it RIGHT or FUNNY…. FOOLISHNESS fits better!

Im not even an obese woman, but I am growing tired of seeing Eddie does these types of movies because what is he really trying to tell us, when these are the only types of movies her does. The only types of movies he has full creative control over as the lead actor. Notice, he never makes fun of any other group. If he made fun of the stereotypes of people like himself, then i would sit down and be quiet. Why not make a film about the stereotype of a tired, stupid, ugly, black man?? Just saying……. Also, this movie was box office gold this weekend, so who was seeing this movie, was it predominetely white people? If so, then we have a serious problem, and it is obvious Eddie has a serious problem, a lot of yall are talking about shrinks and self esteem, but i think eddie needs to see one, because he must have had something bad happen to him in the past by an obese black woman, for him to continue garnering laughs from their plight. Makes you think eh??

That movie was worth the $9 first and foremost, i havent laughed that hard in movie theater since martin’s run tel dat. Eddie def. knows how to make a comedy, my only ? now would be why the F- does everything have to be a debate. He’s and actor and entertainer his job is to make people who go watch his movie laugh, now if u ask me he did that and then some(the movie theater i went to was packed and sold out-every race was in there big, small, ugly, pretty. straight laughing) and if you go see the movie to be honest you forget shes fat, and you see shes just over confident, overbearing, controlling, and mean spirited women(with some hilarious weaves to go with it) And why isnt anyone complaining how Norbits character depicts a sad loner; borderline nerd-in a orphanage who never gets adopted because of how he looks. yea thats a topic that just gets brushed under the rug but trully happens.

I’ve read and heard some ppl complain about Eddie doing this movie after Dreamgirls.

You gotta understand this is what Eddie does and is known for. He got big off of making ppl laugh. So just because he has one serious role don’t mean he has to forget about his roots.

COSIGN WITH #12. I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING!

The movie was so funny…How YOU doing!!!!……

I don’t think it was offensive at all…yes she was a black over weight woman but she also was getting sex, and had confidence…..two charactertics that most people wouldn’t put with a over-weight person….so I think it was cool.

Some people take stuff so seriously. They make fun of everybody in movies like nerds, losers, fat people, skinny folks, dummies, wierdos and the list goes on and on. Either watch the movie or Dont.

I was overweight a few years ago but this is all for fun.Its not that serious.Its is just a movie,but I do understand the other side because he seems to portray nothing but overweight people he hasn’t tried nothing new and people just think oh he is this creative genius that can play multiple fat people in a movie.I really had mixed views about this movie but overall once you leave the theatre you get back to reality and realize its just a movie,but however if someone carries that movie outside than they will follow absolutely what this man does,if that made sense,I don’t know.

But reading some comments…what if someone made a movie about the black man being lazy,thuggish,uneducated and try to portray the “ghetto” life, the way that white man thinks of a black man…would that be funny?Because you know how white men feel about black men right?I know that was touched off subject but come on everybody wants to say african american woman this and that when all races do it.

I haven’t seen it yet but I will see it. The only thing I found offensive about the movie is the fact that his love interest is this super skinny light skinned woman compared to the fat sloppy dark skinned extra ghetto woman. Besides that I can see why its offensive being that large black women are always portrayed as sex addicts, extremely loud, annoying, can’t dress etc.

#27 Windwalker1313 you are my hero. You said everything I needed 2 say.

@ 38. YEAH, THAT’S WHY JAMES QUIT DOING GOOD TIMES!

LMAO!!

Dang, did Eddie see me walking around my house with just my underware and bra on? Cause that woman in the bikini is looking like me on the real. After 4 kids and eating good and not exercising I look just like that. Scary!

i saw the movie and it was funny. not hilarious, just funny. no, i do not find it offensive because fat people are fat people. it’s not anyones fault that someone is fat so they can’t take offense to a fictional character. in movies/tv there will always be characters that portray different things in life….fat, drug addicts, successful college grads, etc. so get over it if you found it offensive…it’s a damn movie

I think this is just entertainment. I saw it a few days ago and thought it was funny! Why would someone take offense at this movie? Unless they view themselves like the character Rasputia. And I don’t see the “fat suit” as offensive. They are overweight black women just like there are overweight white women!

I saw the movie and it was funny. I don’t think Eddie was doing to much and the people that were offended it is JUST comedy. Hate to sound so harsh but if you were offended lose the weight or at least try to. I am not skinny for those wondering I actually am 285 lbs and 6′2″ tall and where a size 25 in jeans and I was not offended at all if anything I would look at myself in the mirror and get off my ass and go work out because being that big isn’t healthy. If anyone wants to comment to what I just said keshamichell@yahoo.com

I have 2 say I loved the movie… and who ever is offended by the movie then u just need 2 go on diet..

preach on #3. I saw norbit, I thought it was hilarious.

I saw the movie the day it came out and NO I didnt find it offensive at all,its just a dang movie, I agree with others, if it were white america running around in a fat suit, NOTHING would be said, But just because Black People have great black male comedians that can just be funny as a woman, the “CRITICS” have something negative to say, I find it interesting, that true NOTHING was said about the movie “SHALLOW HAL”, but anyway the movie was funny hands down and give Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, and Tyle Perry, they are just good at what they do and its not to be mean to over weight black women or women period its just MOVIES………….

I can understand where folks are coming from but it is done by blacks and whites alike. It just sticks out in our minds more when we do it. Heck Gwyneth Paltrow did it in Shallow Hal. Everyone does it. The same way folks talk about gansta rap and black women showing off their bodies on videos etc…white folks do it too but when we do it folks act like we are out their cooning. Hell we all coon. I am not proud of it but blacks, whites, jews, gentiles, protestants, asians, lationo(a)s everybody. The dude is doing the damn thing making money the way he should….legit. We ge mad when the folks on tv don’t reflect reality and then when they do (with the exception that he is not a woman) we get irritated. Folks just can’t be happy.

WHAT ABOUT MS.DOUBTFIRE OR SHALLOW HAL???? THOSE WERE MOVIES ABOUT FAT WHITE WOMEN– DID FAT WHITE WOMEN FIND THOSE MOVIES OFFENSIVE.??..

I HAVENT SEEN THE MOVIE BUT FROM THE PREVIEWS I WAS TAKEN BACK BY HOW THIS WOMEN RESPUSHA WAS PORTRAYED…RUNNIN THROUGH TABLES AND BREAKIN BEDS….LIKE SHE WAS SOME KIND OF BARBARIAN.I THINK BIG WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE WAS MADE TO BE REAL GHETTO. I THINK HE SEES DOING FILMS THAT HAVE OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE IN THEM A MONEY MAKER BECAUSE HE KNOWS HOW SOCIETY FEELS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE FAT..AND THEYLL LAUGH AT THAT WHEN THEY SEE IT.I THINK IF YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE THEN THEN YOU CAN CONSIDER IT “JUST A MOVIE” BUT FOR OTHERS IT CAN REALLY EFFECT THEM. I MYSELF AM NOTHING LIKE THIS CHARACTER BUT IT BOTHERS ME TO SEE THAT FOR BIG WOMEN IN GENERAL!!!

Speak on it Windwalker1313.

Screw offensive. Here’s the real question:

Why does Eddie enjoy dressing up like a woman so damn much??? HER-CU-LES!

I have not read through the thread. But in response to NORBIT I want to say this. Not only does it appear that as Black people we critic EVERYTHING and are harder on ourselves than everyone, but lets be real, if we are the most prone race to Obesity, and our children develop waaaay to quickly, we have high blood pressure then wy are we criticising an artist (eddie murphy) for his artistic impression. He is using art to imitte life so he is NOT THE PROBLEM.

Stay the heck away from greasy, hormone induced, fatty foods. Get of the couch and exercise, lets work out lets stop being so friggin religious and sitting in church yet not realising “our bodies are temples….” if you want to go there. Fat girls for the most part are fat because of themselves. I empathise and sympathise but if they want to change then damn it do something about it. $33 Million screw y’all Edie won a golden globe a sag and now made the studio money because he is talents. WELL DONE I celebrate a career of a hard working innovative black man, all you sell outs that tear down OUR few success stories and want to hold his scandals over him are the worst uncle toms in the world. His private life dont mean shite to me, his only job is to entertain me, and he did it twice (Dreamgirls and Nobit) this year, job done phuckers!!!!!!! and you phreaking tracy edmonds…………NICE……..YAGSHEMASH (as borat would say)

By the way, if a movie came out and there were nothing but black women being portrayed as “video hoes” I wonder how that would be taken?

Acting is about having range and being able to carry out different roles. Maybe people are offended because they see this same actor doing the same thing over and over again.

It takes all kinds to make the world go round and yes, there are fat people in every culture. Also, sometimes we have to laugh at ourselves. But at some point comedy becomes a slap in the face. Especially when it’s not tempered with images that portray the other side of the coin as well. For once, I’d like to see a fat lawyer or educator being portrayed by “actors” like Eddie. Yes, we know you know how to put on a fat suit and play an over-aggressive man-chasing wilderbeast. Now can you do something else?

Whatever. Eddie Murphy is your stereotypical color struck Black man. Look at all the women he has ever seriously dated, like his ex wife and Tracy Edmonds. Also look at his love interests in his movies. And then he has the nerve to make fun of heavy set dark skinned Black women. I find it offensive. Not on a really deep level, but it shows a lot about his character. It shows a lack of respect. Like who you like, but women who you find unattractive are not jokes to be made fun of in a movie.

When he came out wit the Klumps which was a family of fat people farting and stuffn they faces like pigs at the table no one said a damn thing…but as soon as he comes out wit Norbit people get upset for no damn reason…I mean just get over it hell they talk about all types of people in the damn movies so who cares….shit they talk about all skinny people being anorexic and not eating and shit…hell im small but i dont get mad at it cuz i kno im not anorexic and i dont give a fuck wat others say

I just seen Norbit on Sunday & just like other movies about gays(BrokeBack Mountain), jews (Borat), our own (Baby Boy, Barbershop, Boyz n da Hood/just to name few); it has its stereotypes. The movie was okay for the most part and proved to be comedic. I’m sure that it offended some…being overweight is a sensitive topic for all races. But when it comes to “our community,” we seem to have the hardest time accepting truths. I wish us all well and even though being overweight can be caused by a chemical inbalance, there are those that are overweight because they have yet to accept the challenge to be discliplined when it comes to eating healthy.

I’ve seen the movie and i think it’s hilarious. this movie is not based on fat black women so why would anyone get offended? its all fun and laughs and you can tell that this is what eddie was aiming for in this movie. if you dont like his work then dont go see his movies

The movie was WACK!! Funny but WACK!! Do not see it!

Who gives a rat’s ass who’s first.
Anyways “NORBIT” was funny as hell, so ppl need not be so damn sensitive. I LMAO the whole damn movie.

I’m not going to tell anyone what they should be offended about. If you don’t care, than I certainly don’t care. It’s obvious that the white man puppeteers comedians like Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and makes them think that cross-dressing is the “hot thing” and the only thing that will “sell”. Like I’ve said before though, the white man deals with marketing and advertisement which is just psychological warfare or mind control. So he certainly can say what “will sell” or what “is hot” because he knows that he will make people think it’s hot, lol. He does the same thing when he makes the rappers think that the only way people will appreciate their music is if they sell drugs and shoot other black men on every track. That’s why when these rappers don’t sell, they don’t say that their shit wasn’t hot, they say that they didn’t “get promoted right”. They know the correlation between promotion and sales. My point is that there is a reason why every commercial break on every TV channel for every TV show the last 3 weeks was for this movie and it seems to have all the prerequisites: fat obnoxious black women, pimps, etc.

The whole fat black woman thing is just a continuation of the “fat mammy” and “Aunt Jemima” theme from the 1940’s and so on. The real issue in my opinion is the white man’s infatuation with seeing black male actors in drag. From Ving Rhames to Wesley Snipes to Martin Lawrence to Eddie Murphy. It probably makes whites feel less intimidated to see a black man that’s dressed as a woman or that is effeminate or an outright homosexual. It’s consistent with the “homosexual revolution” that we’re seeing today, especially in the black community.

Then you have the black men that have to play a homosexual to get on i.e. Will Smith. Dave Chappelle was intuitive enough to pick up on this fetish and he noted it on “Oprah”. I believe that that is the main reason why Dave Chappelle exited the entertainment industry. He realized that by putting all those stereotypes on the screen, he was making white people more comfortable to laugh at blacks as opposed to actually changing anything. You cannot change a wicked system within the system.

I took my daughters to see this movie and they LOVED it. For me, it was ok. They were some hilarious parts in the movie. HOW YOU DURN!!!! LMAO!

J Lewis said: “People who cant seperate movies or reality T.V. from real life are just sad.”

DITTO! I agree.

A distinction should be made between someone who’s sensitive and someone who’s perceptive. Some people cannot distinguish between the two because the people that aren’t perceptive are usually too stupid to know the difference.

Who cares what the critics say? That movie was funny as hell….how yur doin??

It seems that hardly anyone on this board recognizes the real issue. We as a Black race can not afford to keep perpetuating ourselves in a negative stereotypical light. As far as we Blacks have come we have so much further to go to be equal on a social and economic level to not only our White counterparts but many other races that have come here from abroad. These images are costing us our unified self-esteem. The very esteem we need to excel in this society. The world is watching and responding to us accordingly. If we portray ourselves in a positive light in the media (movies, videos) we will mimic those images. Otherwise we will continue to remain stuck in a mental slave state. (e.g. …did you all know that slavecaptures placed gold teeth in the mouths of slaves to identify which slave belonged to whom)….yet we are walking around bling blinging on our teeth…because we aren’t knowledgable of our history. I personally am saddened by our lack of knowledge. When we have Black people standing up for and voice opinions about the need for positive images we need not attack so quickly and listen to what they have to say… You may learn something.

P.S. Gwyneth Paltrow’s character in Shallow Hal wasn’t attitudinal, sex-crazed, loud, boisterous and barbaric. This movie shouldn’t be compared to that. Besides, that race is 400 yrs. ahead on an economic level and can afford a little laugh at themselves. WE CAN’T!!

I am not going to waste my time or money seeing this Bullshit. As good of an actor Eddie Murphy is, I don’t know why he would stoop this low to make this common ass degrating movie. Don’t ya’ll get tired of seeing bufoonish stuff like this? Now I like comedy ok, but this is a difference between comedy and ignorance. Madea’s Family was comedy. She was just a tough older woman giving words of wisdom. She was the females in the family about not letting men mistreat you. She wasn’t doing nasty, gross things that were disgraceful. It also had drama in it too. Soul Plane = Ignorance need I say more. I like comedy but not stupidity. Just look at the Norbit pictures above. Need I say more? Holla!

Eddie Murphy was wonderful in Dreamgirls, but this Norbit movie can really end up hurting his chances for an Oscar. He’s been in the industry for years, yet he has never won any major awards b/c of the types of movies he appears in (i.e. Nutty Professor,Pluto Nash, Dr. Doolittle, Daddy Daycare, etc.) He’s never been taken seriously with those movies, and he may have blown his Oscar chances by playing yet another goofy fatsuit role so soon before the Oscars.

I forgot that Tyler Perry negro that has become rich through his self-degradation…

Since when did the critics care about big people’s feelings? They were probably praising Eddie in his roles in the Nutty Professor movies. And as for Tyler Perry, Medea’s charcter is not about her weight. Yes, Medea is loud, crazy, and hilarious, but the whole premise of those plays are to show the strong ties of family and love. Take it in humor, and don’t let stereotype make you. Be yourself, and make yourself a positive person to all.

I never said that Madea revolves around weight. Like I said earlier, it’s about effeminizing black men. I can’t think of a role where a black woman played a black man for the entire movie. The premise is retarded.

#12 you better preach! I know that’s right! If a brotha is out on the corner slinging dope getting alot of money he’s being criticized if he’s playing an overweight black woman in a movie and the brotha has skills and its something that’s really really funny, please tell me WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Judah, I was typing my comment for a while, so I didn’t see your comment until after I posted mine.

Sorry sis or brother @73

I saw the movie and thought it was quite funny. I have to commend Eddie on his diversity to be able to play different kinds of roles. I think he has major talent, he can play different roles which are all very believable and for most actors its unheard of..