200 LBS Beauty (Korean Movie)

Watched this very enjoyable Korean comedy. While the fat suit has been done to death already this is still a very fun movie to watch mainly because of the newcomer Kim Ah Jung who portrays her character with a mixture of very potent innocence and hot sexiness. She bears a striking resemblance to the Taiwan actress Shu Qi.

In this comedy, Kim Ah Jung (Hanna) is a grossly overweight ghost singer for a popular Korean singer who has the looks and body but cannot sing. Hence, Hanna sings behind the stage while she lip-synced. Being fat, Hanna is constantly put down by the singer and while Hanna has feelings for her manager she dares not tell him the truth.
One day she overheard him telling the singer that he is good to Hanna because her voice is making sales for his company. Sad and depressed, Hanna disappeared, and then make a mess of a suicide attempt.
As a last resort, she blackmailed a very good plastic surgeon to give her a total body make-over. She re-emerged in a lithe and beautiful body and love her new "shell".
One funny scene is when a traffic policeman asked to see her driver's license and looking at the old fat Hanna and the beautiful and slim girl standing in front of him he just couldn't make the connection and kept looking from the picture back to the person.
Hanna, with her new stage name Jenny managed to become a new and rising star in her old manager's company and as well as winning his heart.
Another funny scene is when they were trying to make out and he put his hand on her breast and she immediately pushed it away as she feared he'd feel the silicon implant there. And when he put his hand on her buttocks, she again pushed his hand away. They ended up talking to each other on other side of the recording room until daybreak.
With all her new found fame and acceptance Hanna is not happy as she feels she's living a lie. She denied her own father because she did not want others to know she is really Hanna and not Jenny.
Finally, at her first live concert she couldn't keep living the lie as she saw the security guards drag her father away from the stage. She told the truth to the thousands of concert goers. She said she wants to be Hanna and not the fake Jenny. She explained why she became Jenny; to sing, to be accepted, to be loved.
The crowd was moved by her sincerity and screamed back their acceptance of her.

So Jenny the singing sensation became Hanna the singing sensation.

Enjoy the video clip on the right. It's a good rocking song titled Ave Maria from the movie's sound track.
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Rating: 4/5
It's no wonder this movie is so big in Korea. It's fun, it's flighty, it's a screwball! Kim Ah Jung presents a sexy but naive persona.