By Al Kratina
July 15, 2007 - 21:01
Hanna is an obese woman with a beautiful voice who works as the real singer behind pop star Ammy’s lip-synching. Insecure about her appearance, she learns a painful lesson about true beauty, after she gets an extreme plastic surgery makeover and becomes a hugely successful performer in her own right. That lesson, of course, is that if you’re pretty on the inside you should cut your outside until you’re pretty there too, or you’ll die fat, poor and unappreciated. The performances in the film are engaging, and some of the jokes are perfectly timed, both by the actors and by director Yong-hwa Kim’s pacing. Still, there’s nothing in here that feels distinctly Korean, and the amusing bits wouldn’t be out of place in a particularly warm-hearted romantic comedy from Hollywood. Neither particularly disappointing nor particularly memorable,
200 Pounds Beauty might not catch the eye of any Hollywood producers, but that shouldn’t matter, because it’s ready to play here anyway
Rating: 5 /10