After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The new millennium started promisingly: In 2002, we got to see America Ferrera, curvy, round and sexy like no other Hollywood film star at that time. Then, three exhaustingly long years later, the lover of Big Beautiful Women was highly awarded with Kylie Sparks, leading actress of "Pizza" (2005). And now? We have just buried the first decade of this millennium, and it looks less promising than ever. What can a lover of Big Women do besides consulting the pertinent special fashion magazines of BBWs, visiting the web sites of a few of them who are proud of flaunting with what they have gotten? In TV nor film you don't see them. They cannot make carrier unless they loose "willingly" the substance that turns them from being beautiful into being gorgeous. Unfortunately, so did Mrs. Ferrera. Allegedly, I have read, she looks more appealing than ever. A terrible lie! For a real lover of BBW's, watching one of the several sex-scenes in Hollywood movies is as enjoyable as watching a gay-striptease.

I had many photos of the actress of Ugly Betty, she is gorgeous, but I had never seen her in a film without the big hair, glasses and braces, this film was my opportunity. Basically Mexican-American teenager Ana Garcia (America Ferrera) is on the verge of becoming a woman and graduating high school with good subject grades. Her family is very traditional, and her overbearing mother Carmen Garcia (Lupe Ontiveros) tries to stop her from doing almost anything a normal teenager can. Ana agrees to work at her sister's sewing factory over the summertime, but she still has the ambition to attend Columbia University, New York, after getting a full scholarship. Her mother expects better of Ana when she knows she has lost her virginity, and she wants her to slim also, but Ana and her dress-making co-workers strip to prove how comfortable they are. In the end, Ana manages to find a way out of her house and go to New York, and it is interesting that her mother doesn't have it in her heart to say goodbye. Also starring Ingrid Oliu as Estela Garcia, George Lopez as Mr. Guzman, Brian Sites as Jimmy, Soledad St. Hilaire as Pancha, Lourdes Perez as Rosali and Jorge Cervera Jr. as Raúl Garcia. Ferrera is gorgeously curvy, and a very good lead for this charmingly interesting comedy drama about going against the odds to get what you want. Good!

I was assigned to watch Real Women Have Curves for one of my college classes. So I popped it in and got comfortable. I enjoyed the scenery and the music. I did not enjoy Carmen, Ana's mother. I'm supposing that was just her character; but, wow. She's one hell of a mom. I've read other reviews of this movie and other people seem to enjoy the scene where Ana and the other factory workers strip down and show their scars to the others. Carmen gets upset and is astonished that none of them are ashamed to show their bodies. Ana proclaims, "This who we are. Real Women!" So is she saying skinner woman are not real? I was quite disturbed by this notion. By the end, I was upset. I know that this movie was supposed to make women of all types feel beautiful; but, it just made angry. Why are bigger women the only ones who are real? The movie was basically saying to me that if you can fit into a size 7(and I'm not saying I personally can) than you're not real. You're fake and you must starve yourself. Skinny women eat too, they might just have a faster metabolism. They're sorry. Needless to say, this movie disappointed me greatly.

Real Women Have Curves is a very enjoyable film, and also a very real film. It deals with very real issues concerning women and especially young women. The main character is of the Hispanic persuasion and though she is a very bright girl and could possibly get into a good collage she runs the risk of being swallowed up in the death trap job of making dresses that cost them 18 dollars to make but get sold in department stores for 800 dollars. Her mother keeps telling her she's overweight overlooking the fact that she is heavier than her daughter. This film is very much set in the real world, and the problems facing the characters are problems we all face at one time or another like "can I pay the rent on time?" or "will this person like me for who I am instead of what I look like?" Within the context of the film the answers to those questions are yes, and yes which may be one of the reasons this film is so enjoyable. America Ferrera's performance is reminiscent of the kind of girl you would see at your local high school, and the message of this movie is one that more people should take to heart. Be who you are, not who others want you to be, follow your dreams, and the like. I was surprised with how frankly this film deals with teenage sexuality, and how it challenges the concept of what beauty is in modern culture makes it a very progressive film indeed.