''Fat Slags'' is a 2004 British
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comedy film
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based on the
Viz comic characters
of the same name. The creators had no editorial control over the film. Despite the relative popularity of the comic strip and its celebrity cameos, the film was panned by critics.
Plot
The film chronicles the (mis)adventures of Sandra (
Fiona Allen
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Career
Allen has appeared in many sketch shows, including ''We Know Where You Live'' (Channel ...
) and Tracey (
Sophie Thompson
Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is a British actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. A six-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the London revival of ''Into the Woods' ...
), the famously vulgar and crass Fat Slags of the title. The pair leave their hometown of Fulchester for London,
shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune. On the day they arrive in London, internationally-renowned billionaire Sean Cooley (
Jerry O'Connell
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) suffers a blow to the head that renders him temporarily insane. When he spots Sandra and Tracey on a daytime chat
show, he falls for their larger-than-life outlook. A media sensation is brought about when Cooley forces fashion designer Fidor Konstantin (
James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus (born 9 October 1968) is an English actor most notable for roles on television sitcoms ''The Thin Blue Line (British TV series), The Thin Blue Line'' as Constable Kevin Goody, and ''Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV series), Gimme Gimme Gimme ...
) to base his upcoming collection on the Fat Slags.
Sandra and Tracey take the United Kingdom by storm, hitting #1 in the record charts and inadvertently winning the
Turner Prize
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.
As far as the press is concerned, fat is the new black. This new trend leads to Cooley's assistant, Paige, gaining major weight.
Throughout their journey into the world of fame, the Slags maintain their unique and endearing vulgarity, coupled with an innocence that draws the British public to their cause.
But in private, jealousy drives a wedge between them as they vie for Cooley's attentions.
Only when he regains his mental faculties and turns on the girls do they realise that their friendship is the only real thing they have in their mad new world.
Cast
Production
In August 2003, it was announced a feature film adaptation of ''Fat Slags'' was slated to begin shooting scheduled August 10.
Fat Slags was part of a wave of sex comedies slated for production in the U.K. alongside other entries such as ''
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
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'', ''
School for Seduction
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Incidental music
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'', and attempted ''
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'' which was soon cancelled.
Reception
Critical response
''Fat Slags'' received near unanimously negative reviews and was panned by critics.
John Plunkett, writing for ''
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'', stated "It has plenty of gross-out stuff, but chucked in with an eerie lack of enjoyment or conviction. Depression seeps out of the screen like carbon monoxide."
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wrote "This painfully slapdash comedy - with caricatures instead of characters - lurches from one crude, staggeringly inept set-piece to another with the subtlety of a three-legged elephant."
'' was a more accurate live action depiction of the comic book characters. Dury told the BBC that he was so appalled by the film, he would stop drawing the strips,