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www.filmcritic.com - : In a world of skinny bitches, the aggressively smart-mouthed Jazmin Biltmore is larger than life and pretty damned bitter about it. Stand-up comedian, author, and actress Mo’Nique has made her career out of fat jokes, and she hits that same one note, ad nauseum, in Phat Girlz. Her Jazmin is an aspiring fashion designer riddled with self-loathing, not only because her tablefull of diet pill bottles is doing little to get her down to her idealized size 5, but because she is doomed to unhappiness since, apparently, no one makes sexy clothes for the plus size lady, and without them, how is a woman supposed to trap a man and therefore finally have a shot at happiness? more...
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www.reel.com - : Mo' is definitely less for Mo'Nique's Phat Girlz, a slapdash female empowerment comedy that's crudely executed on every level. Pandering to the very lowest common denominator, Nnegest Likke's baldly amateurish directorial debut is a one-joke skit stretched to interminable feature length. Almost completely devoid of laughs, Phat Girlz makes The Parkers, Mo'Nique's late, unlamented UPN sitcom, look like a work of comic genius. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Fat girls need love too. This is the central sentiment of ''Phat Girlz,'' the debut film to topline actress/comedienne Mo'Nique, star of the sitcom ''The Parkers.'' Size is everything in this lighthearted comedy about being heavy. The movie is not much more than an homage to beauty in bigness, and if chirpy one-liners about being large and in charge bug you, imagine a whole movie full of them. In any case, ''Phat Girlz'' is a cute, wishful (if not delusional) movie that explores the travails of being a plus-size woman in a world where bigger is not better: the fashion industry. When plus-size fashion designer Jazmin Biltmore (Mo'Nique) and her zaftig buddy Stacey (Kendra C. Johnson) head to Palm Springs to shop their wares, the duo find themselves the subject of interest of two gorgeous African men, Tunde (Jimmy Jean-Louis), who looks like he stepped right out of a Benetton ad, and his friend, Akibo (Godfrey of ''Soul Plane''), another hottie. Not only are they beautiful men of color, they're doctors, and, apparently, in Nigeria, big gals are what the handsome doctors all go for. more...
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