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Fat Girls

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This DVD is a gem! Check it out - has lots to offer those curious filmmakers who love to hear about indie successes. Film was done on less than a $25K production budget - which is a small fraction of most films out there. For the money, lots of good stuff. It'll make you laugh out loud for sure.

This is a very disappointing movie. The acting is barely passable, the filming is third rate at best, and the comedy sometimes looses its point.

Ash Christian plays Rodney, the main character, a somewhat overweight high school student who happens to be gay and is looking for his first love. His best friend is a more obese girl called Sabrina, Ashley Fink. Rodney considers himself as a fat girl, just like Sabrina.

There is Rodney's weird family; Sabrina's weird boyfriend, a Cuban refugee adopted by an African-American family; the weird Drama High School Teacher who poses himself as Liza Minnelli singing Broadway tunes in the local gay club; the weird British blond hunk school student (the only other gay kid in the school) who goes out with Rodney to school prom, but he is not interested in Rodney physically. I guess the word weird is stressed in most of the characters of this movie.

I did not like this movie, it is stupid to me. I did not like the fact that Rodney looses his virginity to the school teacher at the end of the movie. And his obese friend is presented as a joke. One good thing, kids in school did not pick on Rodney.

I think Mr. Christian was trying to do too much in this movie, however, he is talented, and the story is not a bad one.

This seems to be a revenue raising excercise. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. And the sound was "iffy".

I really enjoyed this movie. THe comedy was good, and the actors were great. I wish it would have gone on more, but it was cute how it ended. I would recommend this to anyone who isn't afraid to be who and what they are!! Be PROUD!!

I bought "Fat Girls" after Joy Nash recommended it in her blog, along with "Disfigured". While I wasn't hugely impressed by it's general lack of depth, it still left me in a happy place. I was mostly happy with the lack of stereotypes, exception of the boy's mother, and there were definitely parts where I screamed with laughter and indignation. (The fat girl best friend actually had self worth! And danced at a dance! Minor miracle for a movie. And the gay guy wasn't a flamboyant parody - he was actually portrayed more as a human than a characature, which was refreshing.)

Annoying in places but good at heart.

Can't wait to see what else Ash Christian churns out as he matures artistically.

this is a very funny movie.
it brings up some serious issues that many people face everyday while in high school.
the only part that i was sort of upset with was the ending. i don't want to give it away, but i felt that it could have been a different ending.
overall, i would recommend it.

Hearing about this movies plot sounded interesting and I thought it was going to be a hilarious movie, but I ended up walking away from it depressed.

If you like the sound of a wining winging gay student who wants to be a Broadway dancer who thinks he is a fat girl trapped inside a mans body, while having an depressing emo friend and an immigrant dork hitting on her throughout the movie, then this one is sure to please you.

edit: sorry i gave it two stars, I meant to press -2