I thought they'd switch bodies :o

No gagging can be enough for this one! Α silly, indifferent parody of a comedy with very few actual comic means and endless baloney floating on screen for about one and a half hour.

 

Identity Thief. For starters. A random fat woman with many names steals the identity of Sandy Paterson to live better by overindulging spending that even a super-consumerist fashion victim would find too much. Let’s call her Diana since she kept this name and we can’t argue with 473 pounds of human mass...

Sandy is an accounting director in a big company, married with two daughters. He’s looking forward to a promotion but he ends up with his thumb up his butt.

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Diana, who’s psychologically mental, tries to fill in all her psychotic vacuums with various tricks. Using Sandy’s money then she revels and has a good time out, even when threatening to hang herself from a chandelier.

 

Sandy starts to grasp what’s going on and searches for the identity thief. After 25 mins and another 25 yawns, we see him playing policeman to hunt down Diana. He finds her place in Colorado, which looks like a telemarketing store with chinese stuff, and from now on we got Action!

 

The film tries so hard to be a good adventure comedy, I can’t comment on how much suspense it made to bring. It can’t find anything more original than car crashes, while the amount of funniness in Sandy’s helpless effort to convince everyone his name is unisex runs out very fast. The same applies for the “broken-dick” card, Diana’s clumsiness, boring scenes like that sumo sex-fight, throw-up scenes and saliva.

As for those drama situations, where the director tries to make us sympathize a fat person bearing a bunch of complexes, and the causality system he uses, are just not good enough. Maybe for a Golden Berry award...

After 100 mins of movie here comes a namby-pamby, boring, almost predictable ending. Melissa McCarthy uses her natural appearance to play her role, which she does well. Jason Bateman probably realizes the plot can’t compete and therefore he doesn’t bother to act with less fatigue. All in all, it's them who hold the story from fading.