Ana doesn't have an easy life. She is a star pupil at her Beverly Hills college her Mexican emigre family lives in the grotty LA suburbs. She wants to go to Colombia; her family wants her to work in their sweatshop.
She's Rubensesque in stature - you didn't expect a skinny heroine, did you? - and her mother, a downtrodden old hag, never tires of drawing attention to the size of Ana's backside.
The tooth-grittingly PC ritesof-passage tale clumsily tries to subvert gender and racial stereotypes, yet succeeds only in hammering them home.
The supporting characters are bereft of character and the trite lines trotted out to back up the female-empowerment agenda trample all life from the movie, from title to credits.
Real Women Have Curves
Cert: cert12A
