Amy Schumer’s ‘I Feel Pretty’ is funny, endearing and humane
Amy Schumer’s trademark as a stand-up comic was self-delusion. She’d tell stories that supposedly showed how generous or socially concerned or irresistible she was and reveal the opposite. Now in “I Feel Pretty” that comic strategy is blown out to fill a feature length movie that turns out not only to be funny but endearing and humane.
Schumer plays Renee, an office-worker in a cosmetics firm who wishes she were beautiful. She sees her life as a series of minor deflations and humiliations: She goes into a clothing store and the salesperson walks over to say that they don’t stock her size. She would love to be the cosmetic company’s receptionist, but she doesn’t even dare to apply.