GIRLS TRIP
Directed by Malcom D Lee
Screenplay by 3 writers!
Starring: Queen Latifah; Regina Hall; Jada Pinkett Smith; and Tiffany Haddish
Four college roommates, Ryan (Hall), Sasha (Latifah), Lisa ( Pinkett-Smith), Dina (Haddish), get back together for a girls trip to New Orleans. Where good times begin and deep personal issues come to the surface.
You cannot think about this film without thinking about the movie that came out a month ago...Rough Night. Rough Night was not very good...this film did a lot right and it wins you over.
Positives:
-Just great performances highlighted by Regina Hall playing the emotional part. She becomes almost the straight "woman"as the film moves on. Tiffany Haddish is flat out hilarious. In fact Haddish walks a fine line between annoying and funny and she pulls it off. Latifah is more of the motherly figure. Pinkett-Smith starts as the straight "woman" surrounded by the humor, but she relinquishes that to Hall as the film move on (no spoilers here).
-Though some parts of the script is preposterous....see concert scenes...it stays real. You feel what each character is going through.
-They went R. And was not afraid of it. They went big...no pun intended...and earned it. So many films are afraid of the R because they are afraid of losing that teen audience. No fear here. In fact you will never look at a grapefruit the same way again.
-Chemistry. You really believe these ladies could be friends. So casting is spot on.
Negatives?
- One big one and that is over two hours for this comedy. Waaaay toooo loooong. This really needed an editor. It needed to maybe pull back on one of the party scenes. Maybe that is a sign of the three writers being too many. There is a scene involving hard liquor and wild behavior that was not as funny as the rest of the film. Edit that long scene out and the film would have been stronger.
That being said...so far, one of the funniest films of the year that is for sure....4 out of 5 stars for Girls Trip. It does everything that Rough Night could not. You come for fun. You come for laughs. You come for heart. It delivers. I would like to see these four in another film together...a part 2.
From the shadows as always thanks for your time.
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