In these times, one really has to scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to finding something decent to watch. I regularly look through Netflix, Prime, Crave, Tubi and Apple TV just to find something that I can sit through and not look at my phone for 90 minutes, so I was sceptical when I looked at this one, but we went ahead and tried it.
In the end we were pleasantly surprised! I figured it would be a predictable story line that takes you to familiar places. Chubby, unmotivated girl gets her act together, starts exercising and finding some confidence, runs a marathon, finds love bla bla bla. But no, I really thought this movie brought more emotional intelligence with it and Jillian Bell gives a good performance to portray the emotional growth of Brittany. We were actually in tears at one point!
The writing is also not terrible, the other characters are well written and add necessary emotional backdrop to the coming of age story that it is. On the whole, it is actually a very watchable and enjoyable movie and caught me by surprise!
In the end we were pleasantly surprised! I figured it would be a predictable story line that takes you to familiar places. Chubby, unmotivated girl gets her act together, starts exercising and finding some confidence, runs a marathon, finds love bla bla bla. But no, I really thought this movie brought more emotional intelligence with it and Jillian Bell gives a good performance to portray the emotional growth of Brittany. We were actually in tears at one point!
The writing is also not terrible, the other characters are well written and add necessary emotional backdrop to the coming of age story that it is. On the whole, it is actually a very watchable and enjoyable movie and caught me by surprise!