Girls Trip
A group of high school friends styling themselves as the "Flossy Posse" reunite 20 years later in New Orleans. Hijinks ensue.
The central quartet of the film have good chemistry together, with Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith pretty much old hands at this point As others have commented, Tiffany Haddish as Dina is the Zach Galifianakis/Melissa McCarthy type breakout star of the movie, stealing a lot of scenes through the sheer lunacy of her performance. One scene, involving a banana and a grapefruit will probably be seared into my memory forever.
But I especially liked Regina Hall's performance as Ryan. Her character is an Oprah-type who has come down to New Orleans to sign a media deal with her husband, whilst struggling with marital strife behind the scenes. Her speech at the film's denouement feels genuinely honest and heartfelt, which is a difficult thing to pull off when we all know it's coming.
It hits a lot of similar beats of this type of film, although the grossout sequences felt almost artful in places*. It's overly long (I could have done without a dance off sequence, amongst other scenes) and it has certain issues with plotting but I liked Girls Trip a great deal and it's great to see a funny film with a predominantly African-American cast do well in the mainstream.
*If that's not an inappropriate term for a scene in which arcs of urine stream down onto the streets below from a zipwire. Which is probably is.
The central quartet of the film have good chemistry together, with Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith pretty much old hands at this point As others have commented, Tiffany Haddish as Dina is the Zach Galifianakis/Melissa McCarthy type breakout star of the movie, stealing a lot of scenes through the sheer lunacy of her performance. One scene, involving a banana and a grapefruit will probably be seared into my memory forever.
But I especially liked Regina Hall's performance as Ryan. Her character is an Oprah-type who has come down to New Orleans to sign a media deal with her husband, whilst struggling with marital strife behind the scenes. Her speech at the film's denouement feels genuinely honest and heartfelt, which is a difficult thing to pull off when we all know it's coming.
It hits a lot of similar beats of this type of film, although the grossout sequences felt almost artful in places*. It's overly long (I could have done without a dance off sequence, amongst other scenes) and it has certain issues with plotting but I liked Girls Trip a great deal and it's great to see a funny film with a predominantly African-American cast do well in the mainstream.
*If that's not an inappropriate term for a scene in which arcs of urine stream down onto the streets below from a zipwire. Which is probably is.
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