200 Pounds of Beauty - Movie

200 Pounds of Beauty made me laugh and tear up the whole way through the movie.

To me, it's about self confidence and even with surgery, you can't have a surgical procedure for confidence and clearly, even though Hanna had surgery, she was still the goof she was and at the end, well..you're going to have to watch it and see for yourself.

The movie is about a fat unattractive girl named Hanna who is the actual vocalist of the popular singer Ammy. She hides behind the stage to perform live while Ammy lip sync to her voice. She did not mind since she felt that she was cared for by the music company's director Sang-jun, until the time when Ammy humiliates her in front of him. She not only felt humiliated by Amy, but also felt betrayed by Sang-jun when she hears them backstabbing her in the bathroom. This caused her to realized and be severely hurt by the fact that she is fat. She decides to leave and get a full body plastic surgery to become beautiful. Her love for Sang-jun still lead her to come back and become a singer, but not as the secret vocalist for Amy, but to be her own self under the name Jenny. Twists and turns lead her into become closer to Sang-jun, but she had to pay the price for becoming Jenny. On her first concert she had the chance to change what she had done wrong and tell the world who she really was. In the end of the movie, I had come to realize that looks don't really matter as much as your personality. Even when you're beautiful outside, there's always a different person inside. Be careful in what you choose, and love yourself the way you are. You're beautiful just being yourself.

Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung) is an overweight phone sex employee and a secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. Instead of being famous for her own amazing vocal talent, Han-na hides behind Ammy's performance stage and sings during Ammy's concerts, and records all of Ammy's songs. One day, Ammy ungratefully humiliates her in front of the music company's director Sang-jun (Ju Jin-mo) during his birthday party, knowing full well that Han-na has a crush on him. While crying in the bathroom, Han-na overhears Sang-jun telling Ammy that even though they are just using Han-na for her voice, they must be kind to her so she will not walk out on them. Heartbroken, Han-na attempts suicide but is interrupted by a phone call from one of her phone sex regulars who happens to be a top cosmetic surgeon. She decides to get a head-to-toe makeover instead. The surgeon at first refuses to operate on Han-na, but Han-na threatens to blackmail the surgeon by telling his wife about his calls. Then, Han-na makes a moving speech that she does not want to undergo surgery merely to be beautiful, but for the sake of love and as a boost in confidence, and the surgeon is deeply moved. Han-na puts herself in seclusion for a year as she recovers from the changes.

When she comes back from the hospital, Han-na is incredibly beautiful and slender. No one, not even her best friend, Chung-min, recognizes her. With Chung-min's help, she creates a new identity for herself; she is now a Korean-American from California named Jenny. After auditioning to be Ammy's secret vocalist again, she earns her own recording contract instead from Sang-jun, claiming that she is "all-natural". In the meantime, Ammy, oblivious just like everyone else of Han-na's new identity, desperately tries to find Han-na so that she can record her own postponed album (since she cannot sing the songs herself) by spending time with Hanna's father who is in a hospital with some mental problems, possibly Alzheimer's. Meanwhile, romance begins to blossom between "Jenny" and Sang-Jun, as he continues to promote Jenny, in effect boosting Hanna's confidence on her new self. However, Ammy, through spending time with Han-na's father and Jenny, eventually realizes that this Jenny is actually Han-na in disguise.

During a date one night, as sparks fly, Jenny supposedly stripped for Sang-Jun in the character of a nurse, through a phone sex session. After Jenny has fallen asleep, he sees the African character Jenny had drawn on the glass and realizes it was a sign he had seen before. He remembers that when Han-na still existed and he had not met "Jenny" yet, Han-na had drawn the exact same signs on a sheet of music. Then he adds all of the signs up and realizes as well that "Jenny" is actually Kang Han-na but he keeps this information to himself.

"Jenny's" debut single 'Maria' becomes a hit and the recording company holds a party to celebrate its release. On the day of a party however, Ammy brings "Jenny's" father, in an attempt to blow Han-na's cover. Han-na's father tries to return Han-na's Barbie doll to her, which has always been Han-na's favourite childhood gift from him. Startled by the sudden appearance of her father and not knowing how to react in front of all the people, including Sang-jun, Han-na denies knowing her father and calls him a fan instead when Sang-jun asks her if the old man is her guest. As her father keeps on insisting on giving the doll to Han-na, Sang-jun drags him away from Jenny and accidentally knocks him down onto the floor. Desperate to keep her true identity a secret, Han-na made no move to help her father. It was Chung-min who finally helps him up, casts Jenny a furious look and leads Hanna's father away from the party.

After the party, Sang-jun and 'Jenny' were the only ones left in the room. Sang-jun reveals to 'Jenny' that he knows her true identity but is now cold and distant. He seems to be unable to forgive her for lying to him but says that he will still work to promote 'Jenny' and carry on with her concert scheduled the next day. Han-na breaks down at this point, heartbroken and unable to pretend to be someone else anymore. Han-na tells him that it is incredibly frustrating and painful not being able to be just be herself but have to live a lie, especially in front of him. The surgery that took a whole year to recover from was not nearly as painful as realizing that she still could not be close to Sang-jun. As Sang-jun tries to comfort her, she brushed away his efforts saying, "You broke my heart. Tissue paper cannot fix it."

The day of "Jenny's" first concert, Sang-jun still insisted on continuing Jenny's concert, despite his father's protests. Later, he encourages a distraught Jenny to do this concert, not for the sake of the fans or the company but for herself, thus implying that he has forgiven her and will continue to support her. At the concert, Jenny couldn't sing and later breaks down from the pressure of seeing her father being dragged away by security and tells everybody to stop. She then reveals to the public that Jenny is a "fake," and that she is not "all-natural", as she had claimed, but is "plastic". However, nobody seems to believe her. She proceeds tearfully to tell the large crowd her story: how she has abandoned everything that is dear to her - her best friend and father - to get to where she is. She also tells the crowd about how along the way to fame and fortune she has also lost her own identity and that she now no longer knows who she is. Just then, the screens behind her on the stage started to show a clip of the old, obese Han-na, singing angelically. Han-na turns around and sees her old image and tells the crowd that the image is the real her. The crowd, moved by her sincere confession, responds by chanting "It's okay," and Han-na rekindles her relationships with her father and best friend. She drops the stage name "Jenny" and re-releases a CD with her own name, Hanna, and becomes a highly successful music artist, gaining many fans and anti-fans along the way. Sang-jun realizes the very thing about Han-na that had always drawn him to her was Han-na's innocence. However he also realizes that she has moved on and is now content with who she is.

I loved the movie. I thought the story was great the cast - perfect. And the end is refreshingly different from the usual...storyline. It made me laugh, cry and be EXTREMELY angry. But overall it was great and it wasn't corny AT ALL! Which is like a 'Thank God!' moment. ^^

The title says it all! But in this movie the female is not so sure about this. she thinks she need to be skinny to be beautiful. Well Along the way she slowly finds herself. I Love her in this movie. Everything about it is cute,sweet and funny. Its not all happy times (lets face it, life never is) But It has a very good charm. If you Love music,romance, and funny people. Watch it!

Story: The story is about an unattractive, fat girl Han-na who can sing amazingly, but instead of making it big with her talent she hides behind a different singer Ammy and sings and records all of her songs. After finding out that Amy and the company's director Sang-jun , who Han-na has a crush on, are just using her and act nice to her so she won't leave, Han-na leaves and secretly gets plastic surgery and become "Jenny". The story was fun to watch. It was funny how people treated her differently once she was beautiful. It doesn't get too serious at the end (which is unusual because the korean trend is for even comedies to become very serious by the end).
Acting: The preformances were absolutely amazing.
Music: Great, Ah-jung Kim's voice was amazing.
Overall: Watch it! It's funny.