Amy Schumer’s breakthrough movie I Feel Pretty is a huge misstep
HMMMM. This is supposed to be the big Amy Schumer breakthrough movie, but it’s a huge misstep.
A self-conscious, frustrated woman called Renee who, after a hit on the head, believes herself to be beautiful, when in fact she’s exactly the same, but proceeds to get ahead in life on nothing more than a change in attitude (the hero was inside her all along).
Imagine ‘Big’, if the boy in ‘Big’ was just deluded and tried to sleep with the grown woman regardless of being 12. That.
The film’s entire message is not to judge someone on their appearance and to have self-worth based on your heart rather than your tits, yet it spends all it’s time judging fat people.
The grand finale, during which Renee gives a huge rabble-rousing speech to empower all women and urge them to embrace their flaws and normality, is simply done to sell a new brand of make-up to “non-beautiful’ women.
That this ending is so misjudged is testament to the whole mess of a film - which is a shame because Amy Schumer is usually a million times better than this.
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There were a fair smattering of belly laughs in the screening I saw, but it was during the rare moments when Amy Schumer was just being plain old funny (and not doing that overacting thing she does when she is doing serious-face).
A shame.
I Feel Pretty
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★★☆☆☆