Hal (Jack Black) is shallow. He runs into a self-help guru who decides to teach him a lesson, and bends his mind so that he can not notice how fat and disgusting women are: he sees them as skinny young hotties.
Problem with this Farrelly Brothers pic is that Hal is not learning any lesson: he's not actually looking beyond their looks, he just sees them as good looking. So as far as Hal is concerned, he's still being shallow.
In order to be funny, Farrellys had to represent his "learning not to be shallow" as just a visual impairment where he hallucinates fat people as skinny. Its the only way the comedy would have worked, yes, but its fairly offensive.
The movie is still saying that these people are disgusting, and that only someone who has been brainwashed would want to be with them. Its ending is implausible, and has no impact on this message.
2/10. Anyone who doesn't look as cute as Gwynyth Paltrow does in real life don't see this film. You will find it offensive.
Problem with this Farrelly Brothers pic is that Hal is not learning any lesson: he's not actually looking beyond their looks, he just sees them as good looking. So as far as Hal is concerned, he's still being shallow.
In order to be funny, Farrellys had to represent his "learning not to be shallow" as just a visual impairment where he hallucinates fat people as skinny. Its the only way the comedy would have worked, yes, but its fairly offensive.
The movie is still saying that these people are disgusting, and that only someone who has been brainwashed would want to be with them. Its ending is implausible, and has no impact on this message.
2/10. Anyone who doesn't look as cute as Gwynyth Paltrow does in real life don't see this film. You will find it offensive.