The jokes aren't funny, the characters aren't interesting and the budget is obviously so low you can't help but wonder how they could afford songs by Air Supply and Spandau Ballet.
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11/01/07
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Fat Girls (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:5
Rotten:12
Average Rating:4.4/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he’s gay and she’s... [More]
Starring: Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette, Robin De Jesus, Ashley Fink
Director: Ash Christian
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Reviews for Fat Girls
1 - 17 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Plays with the conventions of the teen genre while making the most of its low-budget indie roots
04/12/07
Given Fat Girls' honesty, and its delicately drawn examples of social hopelessness, the sudden, sugary, puzzling finale feels out of character. It's as though the film forgot how to talk to us.
10/31/07
Top CriticJokes are hit-and-miss, but they splat target often enough to make this a guilty pleasure that homophile fans of both Napoleon Dynamite and American Pie might enjoy.
03/17/07
Top CriticEnds up stranded between two concepts.
11/04/07
Top CriticBig-hearted and often quite funny if crudely made, Fat Girls cleverly subverts the clichés of high school comedies to serve an autobiographical story.
11/03/07
Top CriticTo call Christian's film unpolished is an understatement, since Rodney isn't a particularly engaging protagonist and Christian badly overuses his sulky voiceover.
11/02/07
Fat Girls is fully in the "quirky indie" mold, populated by frumpy characters who sport slack expressions and enthuse about silly life plans.
11/01/07
The film just keeps hammering away at the insight that conservatives are, like, totally twisted.
11/02/07
An abysmal little conceit wholly lacking in originality, wit or technical style.
11/02/07
Christian plays it cool, preferring to love his characters first, and use them as teaching tools second. The restraint is a refreshing change of pace.
08/03/07
Fat Girls' portrait of its small town high school milieu feels immediate and authentic even when the story's perfunctory machinations don't.
10/30/07
Too crudely executed to make much of an impact.
11/09/07
Top CriticAmateurish to distraction, this modern-day satire about growing up gay in a small town has such a minimal pulse that you may well wonder if first-time writer/director/actor Ash Parish didn't burn his script before shooting began.
11/04/07
A modestly impressive debut -- especially considering that writer/director Ash Christian was 21 when he made it -- this poignant comedy will appeal to anyone who vividly remembers what it's like to be a high school outcast.
11/02/07
Top CriticProof that straights have no monopoly on crass, lazy coming-of-age stories.
11/02/07
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