Take off those big glasses and open your eyes to cinema's most significant spruce-ups
When a makeover is the star of the show, the movie isn't usually up to much. Although the "makeover movie" has given us some classic guilty pleasures in Mean Girls, Clueless, and Pretty Woman, some excellent films like Now, Voyager, and certainly kept Audrey Hepburn busy (Sabrina, Funny Face, My Fair Lady), it's also got a lot to answer for. A lot to answer for.
Generally, makeover movies inspire about as much indifference as Marmite. Though some people love their sense of fun, others find them dull, predictable and sexist. It doesn't help that the makeover is often so laughably superficial, or that the subject is consistently a nice-but-lonely woman obsessed with getting her man.
Though marketed squarely at women, too often the message of the makeover movie is riddled with implicit criticisms of its audience,...
When a makeover is the star of the show, the movie isn't usually up to much. Although the "makeover movie" has given us some classic guilty pleasures in Mean Girls, Clueless, and Pretty Woman, some excellent films like Now, Voyager, and certainly kept Audrey Hepburn busy (Sabrina, Funny Face, My Fair Lady), it's also got a lot to answer for. A lot to answer for.
Generally, makeover movies inspire about as much indifference as Marmite. Though some people love their sense of fun, others find them dull, predictable and sexist. It doesn't help that the makeover is often so laughably superficial, or that the subject is consistently a nice-but-lonely woman obsessed with getting her man.
Though marketed squarely at women, too often the message of the makeover movie is riddled with implicit criticisms of its audience,...
- 3/2/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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