Funny and Loved It
Added 11/4/2009
This movie is funny and worth the purchase. If you are feeling bad about your size and need a pick me up buy this movie.
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Phlat Girlz
Added 5/20/2009
I like Mo'Nique and I really wanted to like this film but it falls flat for me. The concept is decent but the execution is a clumsy one to say the least.
Phat Girlz is about Jazmin(Mo'Nique), a plus sized woman who dreams of owning her own clothing line for plus-sized women. Jazmin, her friend Stacey(Kendra C. Johnson) and her cousin Mia(Joyful Drake) go on a trip. Both Jazmin and Stacey end up meeting the men of their dreams.
What I like about the movie: The concept is a decent one. I like the message of the movie about loving yourself no matter your size and weight. I also like the fact that the movie has the ladies hooking up with African men which I find admirable since we hold someone else's standards of beauty in high regard for far too long. Plus it has a few funny moments hence the two stars.
What I dislike about the movie: Where do I start? The humor is forced and sometimes the jokes could be spotted 2 miles away. The scene at the burger restaurant where she breaks out into the dozens with the smarmy employee has to be one of the cheesiest scenes in movie history. She was using your mama jokes that I was using back in 1991 when I was in middle school. The messages the movie sends is not bad but the way it sends these messages are flat out corny. Case in point: Jazmin is sassed by a couple of women in a club. She tells them that their insulting her weight because they hate themselves which is true. But she tells them in a Hallmark/Lifetime channel type of way that makes the message hard to take serious. You can convey comments like that without sounding like a person that spent way too much time watching Full House. Everything else that happens after wards is just cheesy including the ending where Jazmin breaks the fourth wall to tell us that we would have to order the sex tape between her and her man.
In short Phat Girlz isnt a bad movie but it isnt a good one either. Under better direction and better writing it could have been good. But instead we get a movie that falls short its potential due to a stale script that phones in everything from the humor to the storyline itself. Two stars and nothing higher.
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Phat Girlz
Added 4/24/2009
Monique and Jimmy Jean-Louis do an outstanding job together and actually the whole cast was phenomenal! I hope more comedies come out as good as this one!!!
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I think this film is funny, but I must say a little bit unreal. It is like she wants to make every girl fat? that is not even healthy! but I do believe we all are beautiful and it doesnt matter if youre fat or skinny how you feel is what you will reflect.
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I Hate Skinny B*tches Too!
Added 12/3/2008
Phat Girlz is a hard film to hate because it comes from a genuinely real and unique perspective. It is also a great task to defend for being of such poor production quality and having jokes that miss more often than not. My wife informed me that she would no longer read my reviews if I didn't take her suggestion to see Phat Girlz and review it seriously. I initially did not want to sit through it but upon further consideration my wife sat through my silent horror movie phase, so I owed her one. Film is one of the few things we don't share the same level of appreciation for. Besides, I've always taken some pride in watching and reviewing a share of notoriously bad films.
Anyway, Phat Girlz is produced and directed by virtual unknowns and it sort of shows. That's actually being very kind. The film is primarily a vehicle for actress/comedian Mo'Nique Imes, better known as just Mo'Nique. I have no doubt that she influenced this film in every way creatively, for better or worse. She plays the film's protagonist Jazmin, an overweight would-be fashion designer whose awkward attitude about her own weight and resentment to those around her (particularly skinny girls), make for an interesting viewpoint although it does wear out its welcome by the film's conclusion.
The internet movie database indicates this film as among its bottom 100. I don't think that's a fair assessment but the film is definitely not very good. I hardly think the morality behind Mo'Nique's film was taken into the same consideration by the mobocracy on that site as it is here. Again, I'm rating this down based primarily on the production quality and the fact that the jokes don't work as often as intended. The film gains two stars because it means well and has a different voice.
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Funny and Loved It
Added 11/4/2009
This movie is funny and worth the purchase. If you are feeling bad about your size and need a pick me up buy this movie.
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Phlat Girlz
Added 5/20/2009
I like Mo'Nique and I really wanted to like this film but it falls flat for me. The concept is decent but the execution is a clumsy one to say the least.
Phat Girlz is about Jazmin(Mo'Nique), a plus sized woman who dreams of owning her own clothing line for plus-sized women. Jazmin, her friend Stacey(Kendra C. Johnson) and her cousin Mia(Joyful Drake) go on a trip. Both Jazmin and Stacey end up meeting the men of their dreams.
What I like about the movie: The concept is a decent one. I like the message of the movie about loving yourself no matter your size and weight. I also like the fact that the movie has the ladies hooking up with African men which I find admirable since we hold someone else's standards of beauty in high regard for far too long. Plus it has a few funny moments hence the two stars.
What I dislike about the movie: Where do I start? The humor is forced and sometimes the jokes could be spotted 2 miles away. The scene at the burger restaurant where she breaks out into the dozens with the smarmy employee has to be one of the cheesiest scenes in movie history. She was using your mama jokes that I was using back in 1991 when I was in middle school. The messages the movie sends is not bad but the way it sends these messages are flat out corny. Case in point: Jazmin is sassed by a couple of women in a club. She tells them that their insulting her weight because they hate themselves which is true. But she tells them in a Hallmark/Lifetime channel type of way that makes the message hard to take serious. You can convey comments like that without sounding like a person that spent way too much time watching Full House. Everything else that happens after wards is just cheesy including the ending where Jazmin breaks the fourth wall to tell us that we would have to order the sex tape between her and her man.
In short Phat Girlz isnt a bad movie but it isnt a good one either. Under better direction and better writing it could have been good. But instead we get a movie that falls short its potential due to a stale script that phones in everything from the humor to the storyline itself. Two stars and nothing higher.
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Phat Girlz
Added 4/24/2009
Monique and Jimmy Jean-Louis do an outstanding job together and actually the whole cast was phenomenal! I hope more comedies come out as good as this one!!!
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