Fat Slags (2004)

I love this movie so much

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I watched this movie with my brother recently, both of us having grown up with the Viz magazine....and you know what? We sort of liked it.Fine - the plot is standard and the jokes are usually crude and predictable, but there are moments where the other characters just shine. Anthony Head delivers a very strong performance as the evil assistant, Geri Halliwell was surprisingly *good* in her scenes, and seeing Dolph Lundgren as the personal trainer was good too.Don't get me wrong - the movie is still bad, but it's the bad that you can enjoy since it's SO bad it's funny. Light entertainment, watch it with friends for a couple of laughs and a session of ripping on the movie while it runs.Watch it. Go on, I dare you!

I thought that I would watch this film as it was on TV, I like Viz and had an hour or two to kill.I had also heard that the film was a bit of a train wreck and sometime films like that can be quite amusing in places.I was wrong.This is unwatchable.One of the actresses was giggling and grinning all the way through no matter what her character was supposed to be doing. I think she was embarrassed and so she should be.The other tried to fake an awful northern accent for an hour whilst starring like a mad woman. Whoever wrote this has never read the comic strip and should be shot.Drivel.

That sounds like a pretty outrageous claim, but see the movie and you will know where I'm coming from (oo-err! bit of innuendo!) Really though, this is an abomination of a film, dreadful in every possible aspect. As a life long Viz reader I know what a Fat slags movie should be like, and this just ain't it. Similarities between the comic book characters and on screen counterparts was minimal: they're fat, oh yeah, and, well, that's it really. They should be constantly looking for sex, getting drunk and generally being loud and offensive: doesn't sound like much of a plot, but come, the film only lasts 75 or so minutes, (which really drags). The two actresses were also very poor, just plain annoying. And how could they miss out the trademark laugh? NA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA: no such laughs in this movie. Save time and read the comic instead.

Having been madly in love with the Fats Slags since I was a young man, I was disappointed with this movie. How on earth can directors and producers continue to imagine that it can still be funny to take ordinary people and make them rich and successful, after Rosanne destroyed her career by doing exactly that with her working class show. This is without the incredibly clichéd notion that there is something inherently funny about working class people from the north of England. They talk in a funny way , they say funny things and they don't understand sophisticated ideas like art. What a loads of dated old rubbish. The charm of the fat slags was always that they are only concerned with satisfying their immediate needs whether food, sex or anything else and this is what makes them perfect women. They have a view of themselves which depends only on the reflection one slag provides for the other and they are completely indifferent to the feelings and sensibilities of anyone else. These are the Fat Slags as the ideal women they are, the characters in this film are a complete travesty. Still, they can't take away my dreams.