Muffin Top: A Love Story

Winning performance by Cathryn Michon anchors this quirky, often very funny take on female insecurities in modern society. After her pompous husband leaves her for a much younger woman, Suzanne Nicholson (Michon) embarks on a journey of a self-discovery....well, sort of. Full of self-deprecating humor and peppered by wonderful cameos by well known TV-personalities and stars. There is an easy, likable charm to the flick despite running out of steam after an hour or so with usual rom-com tropes to give the movie a feel-good ending. Gary Anthony Williams makes a huge impact in brief cameo as a health guru.

This film uses the funny bone to pluck the heart-strings of insecurity, and in the process creates beautiful music!

A comical peek into the looking glass, with a message of empowerment and self love being reflected back. An entertaining examination of "experts", anxiety, and acceptance.

The cast has great chemistry, and spot-on comedic timing. The hilarity of interaction is only secondary to the adept writing and delivery of the dialog.

Better than a chick-flick, more than a rom-com, Muffin Top is a living, loving, laughing good time!! See it, enjoy it, and love yourself now, not five pounds from now!

Muffin Top: A Love Story, is a hilarious send-up of the lengths to which women will travel in their search for physical beauty (as determined by the media and our celebrity-obsessed culture) and acceptance by others (most notably, the male of the species). Congratulations to co-writer, director and star Cathryn Michon, who birthed this delightful rom-com, with strong support from a smart script, stellar cast, and Kickstarter. Michon, who based the movie on her book, "The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex (With Other People)," is a hoot and a half as a professor of women's studies, picking up the pieces and striving for perfection after her jerky Hollywood-bigwig husband kicks her to the curb for someone younger and thinner with fuller lips. Michon, who cut her eye teeth doing stand-up in LA, is a standard bearer for the broad, physical comedy of Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. That she's a stunning blonde in stiletto heels adds to her pitch-perfect comedic performance. The well-paced script (by Michon and real-life partner W. Bruce Cameron) and superb acting (Marissa Jaret Winokur, David Arquette and Diedrich Bader, to name a few) make for a rollicking good time with an important message: Women must learn to love themselves as they are," not 5 pounds from now." Kudos to Surprise Hit Films for a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story. Muffin Top will touch anyone who's ever: had a body-image problem (Show of hands, please. Who has not?); fallen in love, been dumped, and bounced back― stronger and more beautiful than ever. Don't take my word for it. See Muffin Top ASAP. And share it with your friends. www.muffintopmovie.com

We watched "Muffin Top: A Love Story" last night and laughed ourselves to sleep. What a truly well crafted movie all around.When we first turned on the movie, we weren't quite sure what to expect but it didn't take long for us to realize that we had stumbled upon a true gem. The script is smart and hilarious as is Cathryn Michon. Throughout the film, I kept getting flashes of "Lucy" whenever a piece of "physical" comedy was so adeptly executed. I was aware that she could write well but had no clue that she would be as proficient as she is in all other aspects of the film making process. The entire cast is wonderful. Don't miss this movie - What a treat.

If I could give 0 stars, I would give that.

Please, if you are, or have a loved one who is overweight, or in general you care about the dignity of other people, do not watch this. If you find this very real issue funny, and you like cheap, low quality "humor" on the expense of overweight people, go for it.

This film tries to sell itself as "feminist" which should be about inclusiveness and acceptance, however any solution to the problem is that you have the right to have body modifications, however it never teaches anything about accepting people as they are, or God forbid, that an overweight person could be as lovable, sweet and valuable to society as a thin one. Instead, it equates the value of a woman with the value of her body image.

The "love" part is also very shallow, the guy has controlling tendencies and there is no real chemistry.