Terrible movie full of stereotypes, generalizations, hatred and disapproval for other ethnicities, hatred for interracial relationships, body shaming, condescending, hypocritical, etc..
stereotypical flamboyant character who happens to be gay
Jazmin and Stacy shame others, overeat, and somewhat complain. They do all this but want sympathy from others and they're allowed to point out someone that's thin and make comments about them, but forbid if someone suggest healthy ways of loosing weight like Jenny craig or something.. no, they halfway exercise, Jazmin takes a mess load of diet pills every morning before work and still eats too much at any given chance. She always complain about loosing weight but doesn't want to put the work in. She has an ideal weight but does nothing about it.
Writing was terrible. Actors if given more could have delivered. Not enough action nor entertainment. Not enough character development. Alot of things didn't make sense and came out of nowhere.. like the trip to palm beach resort. I know it said that Jazmin won it, but it didn't give any details about the contest or what she had to do or submit to win. How many submissions were entered by Jazmin. What was submitted it was just like oh i knew i was going to win.. then off they go. Confusing
There was absolutely no spark between Tundae and Jazmin.
The ending was terrible.
Supposedly I'm assuming 6 months to a year goes by . Her dreams of becoming a plus sized fashion designer has taken off and on its way to become globally known. All of a sudden a much needed vacation again.. aka.. she her cousin, jazmin fly to nigeria to drop in on Tundae who never contacted jazmin or anything after they all left. Never even came to say goodbye or nothing before they left. He was still living his life not thinking about her, despite what he said..
to make it believable, there should have been scenes where they showed him missing Jazmin and thinking about her after the trip . Like they could have showed him constantly picking up the phone attempting to call her but didn't, attempting to write letters, maybe talking to his friends and family about her, just scenes of him reflecting on what happened..none of that. Scenes to reflect his words about waiting for her untill she found out how to love herself.
Instead their whole love story seemed fake to me. Terrible writing and in general made it seem like he wasn't interested in jazmin, but was only there because he felt sorry for her, and he wanted to change her, there were no substainal conversations in dept between them. He mirrored her answers and the conversations were him trying to make her feel better about herself.. not very much romantic interest. I felt friendship.
He was trying to change her. He didn't like that she used profanity . She made changes to her life for him
just like stacy did. As soon as her love interest would say something about opening up or her apperance.. she would change completely for him. He inquired about her shyness and called her shy..pretty much oogling over the fact jazmin was outspoken and confident on the dance floor.
Stacy then less then 1 minute later forced herself to be on the dance floor ...all for him.. he took off her glasses never asking her how she felt about them, she never wore them again...etc...
to me jazmin didnt get the man. He clearly didnt show enough interest and left her alone without any contact close to a year. Didn't even call or send flowers congratulating her on her success. Never said anything before they left.
Came up with some i was waiting on u type of bs.
It seemed like he wanted to make her feel better about herself as a friend with benefits, but he wasnt really interested in her. He pitted her and felt the deseperation for life, for a man.. so he gave her what he thought she wanted. He would have dropped her completely once she knew that she didnt need him anymore.
It seemed like he treated her as a charity case and project..
the cousin seemed to be genuine and genuinely sorry about not being there for her cousin when she was bullied and needed her to be and try to make amends all throughout the movie to Jazmin.. but neither Stacy nor Jazmin had hers when she was being body shamed. The movie made it acceptable to shame thin people. So the cousin was shamed, none of the girls stood up for her, nor tried to help her wiith her bulimia. None of them were concerned that by the end of the movie her eating disorder took a turn for the worse and morphed as she overeats to fit Nigeria beauty standards in order to find a man.
This movie missed the bar.
It should have been a self acceptance movie for all.. instead it was a self hate movie.
I don't think neither of the girls really truly began to love themselves. Mostly everything they did was for men and because of men, and beauty standards.
stereotypical flamboyant character who happens to be gay
Jazmin and Stacy shame others, overeat, and somewhat complain. They do all this but want sympathy from others and they're allowed to point out someone that's thin and make comments about them, but forbid if someone suggest healthy ways of loosing weight like Jenny craig or something.. no, they halfway exercise, Jazmin takes a mess load of diet pills every morning before work and still eats too much at any given chance. She always complain about loosing weight but doesn't want to put the work in. She has an ideal weight but does nothing about it.
Writing was terrible. Actors if given more could have delivered. Not enough action nor entertainment. Not enough character development. Alot of things didn't make sense and came out of nowhere.. like the trip to palm beach resort. I know it said that Jazmin won it, but it didn't give any details about the contest or what she had to do or submit to win. How many submissions were entered by Jazmin. What was submitted it was just like oh i knew i was going to win.. then off they go. Confusing
There was absolutely no spark between Tundae and Jazmin.
The ending was terrible.
Supposedly I'm assuming 6 months to a year goes by . Her dreams of becoming a plus sized fashion designer has taken off and on its way to become globally known. All of a sudden a much needed vacation again.. aka.. she her cousin, jazmin fly to nigeria to drop in on Tundae who never contacted jazmin or anything after they all left. Never even came to say goodbye or nothing before they left. He was still living his life not thinking about her, despite what he said..
to make it believable, there should have been scenes where they showed him missing Jazmin and thinking about her after the trip . Like they could have showed him constantly picking up the phone attempting to call her but didn't, attempting to write letters, maybe talking to his friends and family about her, just scenes of him reflecting on what happened..none of that. Scenes to reflect his words about waiting for her untill she found out how to love herself.
Instead their whole love story seemed fake to me. Terrible writing and in general made it seem like he wasn't interested in jazmin, but was only there because he felt sorry for her, and he wanted to change her, there were no substainal conversations in dept between them. He mirrored her answers and the conversations were him trying to make her feel better about herself.. not very much romantic interest. I felt friendship.
He was trying to change her. He didn't like that she used profanity . She made changes to her life for him
just like stacy did. As soon as her love interest would say something about opening up or her apperance.. she would change completely for him. He inquired about her shyness and called her shy..pretty much oogling over the fact jazmin was outspoken and confident on the dance floor.
Stacy then less then 1 minute later forced herself to be on the dance floor ...all for him.. he took off her glasses never asking her how she felt about them, she never wore them again...etc...
to me jazmin didnt get the man. He clearly didnt show enough interest and left her alone without any contact close to a year. Didn't even call or send flowers congratulating her on her success. Never said anything before they left.
Came up with some i was waiting on u type of bs.
It seemed like he wanted to make her feel better about herself as a friend with benefits, but he wasnt really interested in her. He pitted her and felt the deseperation for life, for a man.. so he gave her what he thought she wanted. He would have dropped her completely once she knew that she didnt need him anymore.
It seemed like he treated her as a charity case and project..
the cousin seemed to be genuine and genuinely sorry about not being there for her cousin when she was bullied and needed her to be and try to make amends all throughout the movie to Jazmin.. but neither Stacy nor Jazmin had hers when she was being body shamed. The movie made it acceptable to shame thin people. So the cousin was shamed, none of the girls stood up for her, nor tried to help her wiith her bulimia. None of them were concerned that by the end of the movie her eating disorder took a turn for the worse and morphed as she overeats to fit Nigeria beauty standards in order to find a man.
This movie missed the bar.
It should have been a self acceptance movie for all.. instead it was a self hate movie.
I don't think neither of the girls really truly began to love themselves. Mostly everything they did was for men and because of men, and beauty standards.