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Posted by: Danreiter at July 5, 2002, 11:21 pm

Topic: Shallow Hal- New On DVD Forum: JoBlo

I tried to laugh really hard because I love the Farrelly Brothers, but I just couldn't. Some things were funny, but it was tough to take the way the audience is supposed to laugh at an obese women, as if these people don't have enough problems, now there's a very very public movie that wants us to laugh at a women who breaks a steel chair or eats a Humongous wedge of chocolate cake (as if all obese people eat like that). I dunno, I guess if I had been thin all my life then I could probably laugh at the ironically "shallow" gags and jokes, but I just couldn't. Then on the other hand, the movie wants you to identify with Rosemary and identify with her pain on some level and, and its nice for a Hollywood movie to finally do that for once so I don't see how all those involved with the making of the movie could ask you to feel for this woman and then laugh at her at the same time. This movie is just a huge contradiction. I get the message "Don't judge appearances," but I felt the movie exploited overweight people to make people see that it is wrong to exploit overweight people. I don't get it. 3/10 (because the acting was good for what it was, especially Gwyneth Paltrow)

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