FAT SLAGS review by Fletch...


Oh dear!


What can I say about this film that is a positive?
Well at least it ends quickly!


Awful - absolutely dreadful British cinema that is embarrassing to watch so lord knows what it must feel like to be involved!!!


Fat Slags is a Viz cartoon strip that for the side of an A4 Sheet of paper works fine as the format dictates, but as an 80 minute film – What are you thinking! Who decided “I know I know let’s make this into a movie?” I bet you’re regretting it now!!!


The concept of this film (if you care) is about two factory workers - Sharon and Tracy - who go on the Trisha show and are spotted by a concussed media tycoon who wants them to be the image of the future, and asks them to come to London and work for him. Fashion shows and photo shoots follow as you wince in your seat and question what the hell you are watching. But, alas, the life of ‘northern lass’ calls them as they temporarily fall out (as they both want to shag the tycoon! – Nice) and decide the high life isn’t for them and go back home (Newcastle – I think) to their boyfriends and kebab dinners. Are you hooked? Do you want to see more? Well if you do I am shocked, but each to their own!!!


The two leads are unknown (one is from Smack the Pony and the other is from Coronation Street) and get this - they are both in fat suits! You know the sumo suits you can hire for parties etc etc. Well the producers thought to add realism they would get the two main characters in them! – I can’t carry on, this is so awful remembering it again! The cast is made up of loads of cameos and has-beens that this reviewer can’t recall all of them but Geri Halliwell is fantastic as the PA to Jerry Connell who plays the tycoon with a bump on his head…
JOKE, she is bloody terrible.


Ed Bye, who made Guesthouse Paradiso (which was another dreadful brit flick), made this and one has to wonder how he keeps working if this is the kind of tosh he is churning out. Shot on VHS I think, this film has loads of tacky wipes and dissolves into the next embarrassing scene with plinky plonk music all over it to remind you that you are having fun – ‘la la la’.


Will the Daily Star readers like it? Well comparisons to Sex Lives of the Potato Men (that came out earlier this year which was slated by nitro-movies.com quite rightfully), I would have to say that Fat Slags is even worse. It’s worse because you can’t quite believe it got made without any question of who its target audience would be and now it has been finished, if ever there was a straight to blockbuster title more it is this one.


Avoid – Do not see this film and if you ignore me then more the fool you !


0/5 (A first on nitro).