Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Tim The movie Real Women Have Curves starring America Ferrera is a moving and authentic look at the pressures pulling on Mexican immigrants as well as many overweight Americans. The movie shows us Ana Garcia's life during the summer after she graduates high school. Ana goes to work in her sister's dressmaking factory for the summer while she deals with applying to Columbia University, her overbearing mother and her new boyfriend. All these elements are boiled together in a broth of cultural and generational divide. Ana not only deals with a cultural gap wrenching her on both sides; one to her Mexican heritage, the other to fitting in to American ways of life but also with the generational gap common to all children and their parents. Ana's mother takes out the frustration of her older daughter's singleness on Ana and pressures her to lose weight so that she might better attract a husband. Yet Ana's life still transforms from one with little self esteem and self respect to one full of confidence and optimism for the future.As Ana's boyfriend boosts her confidence she simultaneously comes to realize how hard her family works, and how much they love her. Therefore the viewer is carried along with Ana as she overcomes her fears and successfully bridges the gap between her and her mother whilst also spanning the gap between Mexican culture and American Culture. Ana eventually overcomes her negative self image and recognizes herself as a beautiful person and realizes that every body is beautiful in and of itself. Ana's journey brings the viewer to confront their own stereotypes and misunderstandings about culture and weight. After watching this film the way we view people in America is proved to be misguided, everyone can learn from Ana's passage from self doubt to self respect.Along the way we meet many characters who impact Ana's life in one way or another, some positively, some negatively. Each character has a purpose and proves that the way we view and treat others makes a difference whether we realize it or not. Real Women Have Curves is a very good movie for making us challenge what the media will have us believe, for giving us some food for thought and making us laugh a little on our way.This is an excellent movie that I would recommend for all teenagers and adults regardless of background or beliefs because it gives the viewer access to a perspective other than their own.

irishamethyst41 I saw this film when I was in an extremely vulnerable place during the Spring of 2002, when I was battling and just embarking on my journey to freedom from an eating disorder. It helped show me that women of all shapes and sizes can learn to appreciate themselves, regardless of their outward appearance - especially in light of the way society portrays how we are expected to look.I like the stand that Ana had in standing up against her mother, despite how it would be to be picked upon based on your outward appearance.I have only today ordered the DVD, as I feel it is one that I can watch time and time again.At the time of seeing this in the local Film Centre (for alternative films), I found it to be quite uplifting. Well worth viewing! Don't wait - go out and buy it now!

Polaris_DiB "Real Women Have Curves" is a film that, like many others, deals with various issues of race, generation, societal, weight, and gender conflict. The lead character is Ana, a girl who struggles with her own desire for independence while her mother uses her weight and her ethnicity to keep her "in her place." Movies dealing with these issues abound, and are in fact a rather significant part of the film industry. This film, however, is nice because it's rather life-affirming. Instead of making me (who is a white male) hate himself for being white, it instead makes me enjoy this look into another person's difficulties. Too many films about these issues tend to have something in the way of "survivor guilt." "Look at my culture, and see how beautiful it is. Now feel bad for not appreciating it before you saw this." This film is different, and it's rather enjoyable.For that matter, the overall dialog is clever and funny, so it's certainly a film to sit back and enjoy, and in the process feel a little bit more hopeful about the world.--PolarisDiB

vadirtysouth42 This movie is about a young latina girl who just graduated high school. She got a full scholarship to a prestigious university in New York City, yet her parents want her to stay in Texas and help the family. This movie is about her summer after graduation, and all the growing up she does. She realizes her mind is worth just as much, if not more, than her body. She learns to stand up for her beliefs. I like the slices of latino culture throughout. America Ferara is a very pretty young woman, I like how she is so serious, and she can do romance, and anger. I love the factory scene where she lets her mom have it. But, I should not discuss that. Go see it.