![]() The thing about Wilson, though, is that she was in control of every joke. Her “Fat Amy” character in Pitch Perfect is a prime example that fat jokes can be mined for solid, positive humor. I happen to think that anything, in the right hands, can be funny and you have to look no further than Rebel Wilson for proof of this. And it’s not that I don’t think that fat can be funny. ![]() I was, as far as I could tell, the only person not enjoying the movie. I sat through Identity Thief-on the studio’s dime, thank god, because if I’d paid for it I would have been forced to stab myself with a pencil-and gaped as everyone around me laughed at the barrage of fat jokes and terribly timed sex gags. I want to discuss the audience that drove this mountain of dinosaur dung to over $37 million at the box office. I want to delve into the actors who participated in this film even though their families do not appear to have been kidnapped and held under threat of violence to ensure their cooperation. I want to talk about that cabal of filmmakers who thought this would be funny in the first place. I don’t want to talk about Rex Reed and what a tremendous dipshit he is. You can read a summary of that kerfuffle here.įirst and foremost, Reed can go fuck himself for making totally unnecessary personal attacks on an actress who, regardless of what she looks like-because this would be equally offensive if he’d attacked, say, Keira Knightley for having a flat chest-was being paid to portray a character in a certain way as determined by a script, a director, and a group of producers who thought the result would be humorous to audiences. In his review of Identity Thief, film critic and professional asshole Rex Reed referred to McCarthy with a series of offensive and derogatory phrases relating to her weight, which totally undermined any valid points he may have been making about the film’s quality (which he did conclude was awful and unwatchable, and asshole or not, he wasn’t wrong about that). Now that that’s done, let’s talk about Melissa McCarthy and the humor of fatness. Here’s my review of the “comedy” Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy: It’s a shit pile and is horrible at everything.
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