Netflix’s Beauty Pageant Movie Dumplin’ Is Here To Save 2018 & Twitter Is Obsessed
Every so often a movie comes along that’s just so utterly perfect in every way that you wonder how it wasn’t made earlier. In August we had rom-com To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and squeezing in just before 2018 nears its end, we now have Dumplin’, the most feel-good film of the year.
The movie dropped on Netflix over the weekend and somehow perfectly combines beauty pageantry, body positivity, drag queens and Dolly Parton. Be still my beating heart.
Oh, and Jennifer Anniston is back in a big way. The actress plays the mum of high schooler Willowdean (played flawlessly by Danielle Macdonald), a waitress who signs up for a pageant in Texas as an act of rebellion against her mother, a longtime pageant queen.
It’s all about female friendships, self-love, knocking down BS beauty standards, and being a badass like our lord and saviour, Dolly.
Here’s the ‘9 to 5’ singer promoting the movie alongside a dumpling recipe. It’s a big mood.
#DUMPLIN is out TODAY on @netflix and if you wanna treat yourself to dinner and a movie here's one of my favorite recipes that's just perfect for the occasion… Chicken & DUMPLIN's, y'all! ? pic.twitter.com/GH0Vddltgz
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) December 7, 2018
I really can’t talk enough about Dumplin’. It’s life-affirming, tear-jerking and delightful in every way. It’s the complete antithesis to fellow Netflix offering Insatiable, which was not just bad TV but cringe-worthy, body-shaming and deeply damaging.
People are pretty damn obsessed with Dumplin’ and here’s why!
It’s just so wholesome.
#Dumplin on Netflix is literally the MOST WHOLESOME MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. If you’re in the mood for a pick me up and a movie where you will full on cry at least 7 times. Look no further.
— Brianna ☀️ (@ladydancer7688) December 9, 2018
Viewers are majorly crushing on love interest, Bo.
Someone came @ me saying #Dumplin is unrealistic because "hot" boys don't want to kiss fat girls.
And I looked at my hot husband and laughed. pic.twitter.com/BspLBLSgTe
— Love Actually No 1 Fan (@JennaGuillaume) December 9, 2018
Peter Kavinsky, who?
peter kavinsky move aside, it’s bo’s turn to shine #DUMPLIN pic.twitter.com/Ym8ELNgeQx
— monica (@theloversII) December 8, 2018
It’s all about body positivity and empowering young women.
As a fat girl, #dumplin made me feel a hell of a lot better about myself than Sierra Burgess. Dumplin is a truly wonderful film, I love it.
— love ? (@arohawhite) December 9, 2018
I’m not crying, you are!
Wow bitch #Dumplin was fucking great. Let’s all go cry together.
— Malia's "Jolly" Black Friend (@HiShelli) December 7, 2018
There’s just something in my eye.
picture of me watching #Dumplin pic.twitter.com/Fy6BiAlNya
— ❄️?Kerry Krampus?❄️ (@kerrynovum) December 8, 2018
Plus it will make you want to give your mum a big hug.
#Dumplin was more than just your average beauty pageant movie. It was self love in all its forms. It was finding friendships you didn’t know you needed. It was a bond between mother and daughter. Its finding love within yourself to fully love another. It was all of it.
— Vanessa (@pinkcorazon85) December 9, 2018
So. Many. Emotions.
OK but #Dumplin is so good and funny and emotionally enthralling and there was so much female solidarity and there was more than one fat girl and none of them had to stop being fat to find happiness and also DOLLY PARTON and ughhh this MOVIE
— Bisexual Disaster Kylo Ren (@jakkugerblin) December 8, 2018
The ending killed me dead.
"Hey, did you win?"
"No. I got disqualified."
"That's my girl."#Dumplin— Epic Reads (@EpicReads) December 8, 2018
CONFIRMED: It’s actually the perfect movie.
I am loving the hell out of #Dumplin! A plus size girl decides to enter a beauty pagent, inspires 2 other misfits to do the same, they all become friends in the process & get help along the way from a group of Dolly Parton loving drag queens! This movie is checking all my boxes!
— Nate Anderson (@xander6981) December 8, 2018