200 Pounds Beauty
A fatty Epic Korean movie which stars Kang Hanna (Kim Ah Jung) who has a sweet nice vocal that won many people admiralty including her phone sex partners. However, being weighting at 200 pounds, she was only a backstage singer who sings for pop idol Ammy and because of her obesity she was overlooked by others and being make fun. Kang Hanna (Kim Ah Jung) secretly likes her manager Sang Jun (Ju Jin Mo) but she cannot bring those words to tell him. In an unexpected situation, she overheard the conversation between Ammy and Sang Jun which he said hurtful words to relieve Ammy’s hatred about Hanna. This has directly hurts her feelings and attempts commit suicide however she twirl the thinking after her phone sex partner who was a plastic surgeon called and Kang Hanna’s life begins to change after she requests a head to toe full body change.
This particular movie has the similarity of Sammi Cheng (In Love on a Diet) whereby she was stuffs with make up that made her look fat and ugly. However, Sammi Cheng in that movie becomes dramatically slim because of the effort she made while Kang Hanna (Kim Ah Jung) was rather a wholesome replica or so called monster in the movie.
Back to business, after the frantic change, she becomes a beauty in everybody hearts and she won her first die hard fan, a delivery man which rams into the lift barrel while admiring her good looks. Thereafter, the dramatic change has achieved a total new image whereby even her best friend does not recognize her. Therefore, she took the opportunity to get close with Sang Jun through a vocal audition and was eventually gain a contract to promote her to become a new star. Hanna did not dare to tell the Sang Jun her true identity as he does not like women who go for plastic surgery. However, her identity was revealed and she made the final confession in her concert of her identity where tears and joys come….
A 200 pound beauty is definitely a comedy cum touching movie which was stretched from the first hour to the last hour. This movie can over run Sammi Cheng (In Love on a Diet) as the storyline are much better. The ending is much satisfying whereas the touching and funny moments are brought together which patrons can feel the mix of joy and sadness. Lastly, look like the Koreans are really famous on their plastic surgery. Are you keen to have a whole body change?
Rating: 3.5 out 5 Tickets