Hanna has two jobs: a phone sex worker and a ghost singer for a famous pop star, but even worse than her lame jobs is...she weights 200 pounds! Oh the horror. Anyway, because of her tremendous weight, Hanna is extremely depressed and even tries to commit suicide a few times. Things change though when she falls in love with a music producer and blackmails one of her phone sex clients (who is a plastic surgeon) into giving her a full-body makeover. Naturally, before going into the hospital (for a year!), she throws her dog off a bridge. Twelve months later, Hanna has now become Jenny. An attractive woman who weights less than 200 pounds. Unfortunately, she's even more mentally unhinged than she was at her original weight.For a light-hearted romantic comedy, 200 POUNDS BEAUTY is alright, but there's some really fucked up shit going on in this movie. First off, the entire self-worth based off of body weight is straight fucked. Added onto that, there's zero romantic chemistry between the Hanna / Jenny character and the producer who seems like a violent scumbag. Multiple scenes where people are randomly punching and abusing one another. One innocent guy even gets beat up and then falsely accused of attempted rape! Jenny drives while playing with her phone, then she sees a taxi in her way (stopped at a red light) so she simply closes her eyes and crashes into it! A stalker (who secretly videotapes Jenny) is smacked around and used as a comedic device. Three different times Hanna / Jenny's own father gabs her ass. There's more, but the tossing the dog over the railing thing was too much for me.
Worth a watch, I guess, if you're into this type a movie, but honestly, I would hate to meet any of the characters in this film in real life. What a bunch of self-centered assholes.
