Metacritic Film

Fat Girls

Starring Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette, Robin de Jesus, Ashley Fink, Ellen Albertini Dow, Alexa Havins, Deborah Theaker, and Justin Bruening

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, language and some drug/alcohol use - all involving teens

Regent Releasing
Comedy
82 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters November 2, 2007

Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he’s gay and she’s overweight. Trapped in a small Texas town and having come to accept his “fat girl” within, Rodney is an aspiring Broadway star who musters up the energy to confront his fears and take life – and the hot new student from England – by the horns. With Rodney’s awkward experiences, off-beat attitude and strange evangelical family, “Fat Girls” is a hilarious rollercoaster ride that careens to an outrageous climax. This auspicious debut announces the arrival of filmmaker and star Ash Christian as a major new talent. (Regent Releasing)

WRITTEN BY
Ash Christian

DIRECTED BY
Ash Christian

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

47 / 100

Critic Reviews

75	New York Post Big-Hearted and often quite funny if crudely made, Fat Girls cleverly subverts the clichés of high school comedies to serve an autobiographical story about an overweight gay teen in a small Texas town.
63	New York Daily News Christian infuses this familiar story with gentle empathy, which goes a long way in balancing out the more amateurish choices.
50	Los Angeles Times Staff (Not credited) Without insight, memorable dialogue or interesting characters, Fat Girls quickly wears thin.
50	Variety Wins no points for delicacy. Still, it does score some laughs.
50	Village Voice Abigail Deutsch This film goes to some lengths not to be another high-school movie, which means prom stinks and no one can sing. Given Fat Girls' honesty, and its delicately drawn examples of social hopelessness, the sudden, sugary, puzzling finale feels out of character. It's as though the film forgot how to talk to us.
50	TV Guide To call Christian's film unpolished is an understatement.
42	The Onion (A.V. Club) In the words of his own character, this young filmmaker hasn't found his "inner fat girl."
40	The New York Times Ends up stranded between two concepts, either of which might have yielded a more satisfying film.

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