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There was a lot of controversy around I Feel Pretty back when the film was released in April this year. Based on a fantastical story about a unconfident girl who hits her head and suddenly thinks she is gorgeous, the story received backlash because many perceived that the injury had induced her into thinking she was skinny and thus hot.
This of course didn’t sit well by cynics so the first and foremost thing you need to know about I Feel Pretty, is that it isn’t fat shaming anyone for the most part. The film is trying its best to be a feel good movie which you walk out of feeling content with who you are. And here’s the second thing you know about the film: it fails miserably at what it’s trying to do.
The biggest hurdle when making a film about an overweight woman who thinks that she will never be pretty and suddenly starts seeing herself as hot, is how to make a good comedy out of that. When the whole point of your story is trying to make viewers realize that they’re already as pretty as can be, it sucks that they also have to witness a girl who believes she is gorgeous and is doing stunts time and time again which are only comical because she isn’t super skinny as others.
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And for all the filmmakers protests about the film being about self-acceptance than anything else, the first thing Lenore says when she hits her head and wakes up to the oh-so-spectacular new her is “look at my abs” which really counters the whole argument.
That big thorn aside, I Feel Pretty is pretty average. Amy Schumer plays her main character with a vulnerability that hasn’t been seen before but there’s not much more to her performance than that and she isn’t able to elevate an average script much. Others do fine too Rory Scovel, Emily Ratajkowski, Laura Hutton, Busy Philipps, Aidy Bryant, Naomi Campbell all put up a good effort but with the script being weak, there’s not much they can do to fix the problems with I Feel Pretty. Only Michelle Williams manages to do the impossible, and her sweet toned boss Avery, is the star of I Feel Pretty.
The score and production of the films isn’t anything to go by and in all ways I Feel Pretty establishes that it is as unforgettable as one would think. That said, if you are looking for a mindless comedy to watch that isn’t necessarily a romance (though I Feel Pretty has that too) then I Feel Pretty could be just the thing for you.