The last time that Amy Schumer starred as the female lead of a major romantic-comedy, her casting was treated as some kind of subversive act. And, to a certain extent, maybe it was. On the one hand, a blonde, white, able-bodied comedienne on 3,000 movie screens probably shouldn’t be hailed as the Jackie Robinson of meet-cutes just because she wasn’t Weird-Scienced by a focus group of horny teenage boys in a secret Hollywood lab (“I’m probably like 160 pounds right now and can catch a dick whenever I want,” Schumer memorably declared the month before “Trainwreck” opened). On the other hand, when some male critics are inspired to say things like “there’s no way she’d be an object of heated…

If I'm being perfectly honest, for as derivative -- comparisons to Big, What Women Want, and Shallow Hal are justified -- and admittedly questionable as its core premise is, I honestly think it has legitimate potential to be a smart, provocative, funny comedy. However, I Feel Pretty is anything but. It takes the completely WRONG direction with this idea, resulting in what is quite honestly one of the most embarrassing fucking things I have ever seen in theaters.

Amy Schumer's protagonist is supposed to be the relatable everywoman character we're meant to identify and sympathize with seeing as she's insecure and not particularly confident about herself and she's average-looking -- by the standards of Hollywood that is, because let's be…

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I was going to say that I Feel Pretty (2018) is Amy Schumer's best comedy since Trainwreck (2015) but looking at her filmography, she has only starred in Snatched (2017) since then.

I like Amy Schumer. I think her stand-up is funny. I think she is funny.
Her movies, all three of them are hit and miss.
Trainwreck (2015) was good. Snatched (2017) was awful. I Feel Pretty (2018) falls somewhere in between.
I feel the message the I Feel Pretty is trying to convey is an obvious and simple one. No, the film is not perfect, not even with the way it gives a mixed message about superficialness, body images and simple human emotions such as…

I think Schumer can do better if she wants to. I liked Inside Amy Schumer a lot, but her movies feel way more safe and formulaic. This is a total Hollywood feel-good rom-com type film where the message is hammered home in a big speech by the hero at the end in front of all the people who matter to her (and all those she realized shouldn't matter to her as much). The fact that it was also a cosmetics product launch speech made it, unintentionally, a lot funnier. But I did laugh a lot, particularly in the first half. Michelle Williams' performance is out there but works well. I also like that the character of her brother wasn't a…