It was the (worst) of (movie) times... Phat Girlz

I know that the "worst" is in parenthesis.  It will become clear as you read this.

Phat Girlz.  It's about a heavy young woman named Jazmin, her friend Stacey, and her cousin Mia.  Jazmin is an aspiring fashion designer struggling with her self image due to her weight.  She wins an all expenses paid trip to Palm Springs where Stacey and her meet the men of their dreams(Tunde and Akimbo).  Stacey enjoys the fling for what it is, but Jazmin blows it by accusing Tunde of wanting someone thinner.  After arriving home and getting through a deep depression, Jazmin pursues her dreams of fashion design and makes it big.  After everything is going well in her life, she has the self confidence to go and be with Tunde.

Simple plot.  Not necessarily high art.  HOWEVER, this movie does not deserve to be anywhere on this list.  These are supposed to be the 100 WORST movies.  This is NOT that bad.  In fact, I was entertained and even touched a little by this movie. Perhaps its because I do identify with Jazmin.  But I really think it's because this movie was actually NOT bad.  Why is it on this list?  Because it is a user voted list.  Evidently, enough users voted for it.  I have a hard time believing it was for anything other than the fact that it starred two heavy women in romantic leads.  This makes me sad.

I really don't want to go into it TOO much, because I will be on my soap box for a LONG time over this.  Like how America is LAME to place so much importance on being thin instead of being healthy (I know, they CAN go hand in hand... But not always).  How I am sick of being treated as lesser because I carry a few extra pounds (admittedly, mostly by young men, not those my own age and almost never by the women in my life).  And I am REALLY upset that when I see a movie that is funny, and entertaining that has people built like me, it ends up here.  LAME!  SHAME on you voters, SHAME!

Ok.  This movie is not the best movie I have seen.  I really could have done without some of the crude humor, for instance.  But the message is right.  What brings Jazmin out of her funk and puts her on the right path is not something Tunde said or did, but something her grandmother told her when she was small.  Only then does she pull herself up and get her life in order.  I really like that Jazmin did all this, and THEN goes to Tunde.  Not because she desperately needs a man, but because she realizes how sincere he was and needs to make it right. It's a chick flick, and if you like those, it is totally worth a look-see.


One good thing did come out of Phat Girlz being on IMDB's 100 Worst Movies.  I never would have seen it otherwise.  So maybe I should thank the voters???  Nah!  SHAME on you!!! (I needed to say it one more time!)

GGC