As the title hints, Phat Girlz is a plus-sized Cinderella.
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04/10/06
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Phat Girlz (2006)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:10
Rotten:32
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Although Phat Girlz has good intentions, it is sloppily made and thin on laughs.
Theatrical Release:Apr 7, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $6,922,865
Synopsis: In this feel-good comedy with a positive message, Mo'Nique stands up for all the overweight women given short shrift by society. One of a group of three friends that includes her hot-to-trot thin... [More]
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Reviews for Phat Girlz
Although Phat Girlz...looks to have been made on a shoestring, with muddy, unflattering lighting (by two cinematographers), there is nonetheless something to be commended here.
03/01/07
I'm recommending it, barely, because I think it speaks pretty well to a certain audience and does so from the heart.
04/10/06
Likké should be applauded for tackling a subject that's bristling with socio-political thorns and raises some provocative questions, particularly about what we find attractive in other people and why.
04/08/06
Top CriticUneven but lovable, "Phat Girlz" comes strutting on to the screen. As well it should.
04/12/06
even though this movie is a bit of a mess, it turns out to be unexpectedly sweet and funny. Its very amateurishness gives it freshness and authenticity.
04/13/06
There's a lot to laugh at and cheer for in this rousing comedy.
04/07/06
Beneath the movie's broad humor and meanspirited put-downs lies an uplifting story about learning to like yourself for who you are, not what you look like.
04/10/06
This is a disarming and, in its own way, delightful vehicle for its star and executive producer, the comedian and actress Mo'Nique. Who could hate this movie?
04/10/06
Top Criticoutrageous, wish fulfilling fun
04/06/06
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04/08/06
For a movie about a triumphantly funny fat woman, the humor is woefully low on calories.
04/08/06
Just a protracted fat joke.
04/10/06
Less a call to (flabby) arms than a simple turning of the tables on romantic comedy convention, proof that large women can have wishes cinematically fulfilled too.
04/08/06
First time writer/director Nnegest Likke has her heart in the right place, but the intensity of her inexperience blinds every scene.
04/06/06
The film starts with the kind of material you would find in Mo'Nique's stand-up routines, but settles down into more of a story and actually has something to say.
04/07/06
It does suffer ... from actually having way too much heart and not enough soul, its identity lost far beneath its ambitions for affirmation.
09/17/07
If Phat Girlz is about desire, for viewers even more than actors or characters, it is also about how that desire is constructed by images.
04/08/06
Chooses contrivances over naturalism and sickeningly saccharine sermonizing over lighthearted moralizing.
04/06/06
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