Though this movie may not be the greatest of all time, I thought it had a great message. Accept who you are, work with what you got and be the best you can be. Besides, you cannot be anyone else, so you may as well accept yourself and be happy.

I stumbled across this movie on HBO. I hadn't heard of it before, but I found it enjoyable and uplifting. I was surprised to see it got such low ratings online. I must conclude that haters gonna hate. Monique is really a great actress, funny and able to bring depth of feeling. It had a positive message about loving yourself no matter what society says. No, it's not a masterpiece of cinema, but compared to other romantic-comedies, it's better than many.I'd take Monique and her team over Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore/Jennifer Anniston/Judd Apatow nonsense. Those movies ultimately reinforce a white-male dominated status quo.

I knew that this movie wasn't going to be particularly moving, but I didn't realize it was going to be absolute crap. The idea behind this film was to break barriers and stereotypes, but that can't be done if you keep perpetuating them at the same time.According to this movie fat women are dateless, desperate, and can only attract men from far away, impoverished countries where being obese is a good thing because food is so scarce. Talk about building up a woman's self-esteem. And the whole "thin people are evil;they need to eat and get fat too, so that I can feel better" theme, is just embarrassing.An obvious hypocrisy is how fat women are accepted in this film, but the only men depicted as love interests had to have above average bodies. It wasn't okay to ignore fat women, but it was okay to ignore fat men and even men who were just average.Altogether Phat Girlz was pitiful and treated the idea of taking overweight women seriously like a funny daydream rather than a real possibility.

This movie was great, so it might not be an intellectual masterpiece, who cares!! It was very entertaining and got a very positive message across: that we should all learn to love ourselves. It is a very feel good movie and having just watched it I feel great!!! I read a comment about how Monique's character only likes handsome men and so the movie is hypocritical and I suppose I can see the point. However, the point of the movie was to show that you shouldn't judge people by there weight and if they simply had overweight people with overweight people then this point wouldn't come across as strong. It would be like saying only overweight people will find overweight people attractive. When what it was trying to say was that we are all beautiful and its about time we all realised it!!! The movie got across a very relative self-esteem issue in today's society and it did it in a very entertaining and "phat" way. I found myself wishing I was a Thick Madame like the character Mia at the end!!!