<I>I Feel Pretty</i> Is a Message Movie That Can't Stay on Message
The new Amy Schumer vehicle tries to be a feminist fable—and fails badly.
Where’s Judd Apatow when you need him?
The comedy I Feel Pretty seems like an Apatowian undertaking in almost every regard: modestly high-concept, gently moralistic, and starring Amy Schumer, who had her big-screen breakthrough in Apatow’s 2015 movie Trainwreck. All that’s missing is any actual participation by Apatow himself—which is a pity, because the intelligence and nuance (not to mention humor) customary in his work are precisely what this film could have used.
The directorial debut of Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, is a would-be feminist fable about beauty and self-esteem—specifically,, among other sexual-politics misfires (, ).
