Recommended film: The Heat

[firecat]

The Heat is a buddy cop movie set in Boston starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. I thought it was really funny, and the humor does not rely on fat jokes (McCarthy is fat), fat stereotypes, sexual assault or harrassment.[1] There are some jokes based on appearance, and a lot of jokes based on class.

Normally I wouldn't see this type of movie in the theater but I did because wanted to reward the producers for making a film of this type that stars women.

There are spoilers in the comments.

[1]ETA: Add "against women". There were jokes about sexual harrassment of men.

Comments

Re: Lack of fat stereotyping

[julian]

Yeah. I was very pleased by the lack of it. Bullock's character got some unfunny "jokes" early on about her sexuality/lack of it/general failure as a "feminine" person. Once they stopped with that, it was pretty OK.

Re: Lack of fat stereotyping

[firecat]

I also could have done without the albino jokes, but at least they were subverting the trope.