So glad I did not waste my money going to the theater to see this. Most of the cast I like, but most of the movie was just over the top stupid. I really hope that save their money and not make a Part 2.
Girls Trip
2017
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Girls Trip
2017
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
92% - Critics
77% - Audience
6.2Plot summary
Four best friends, the "Flossy Posse", have grown distant over the years. When lifestyle guru Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall),who is dubbed "the next Oprah", is offered an opportunity to be the keynote speaker at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, she decides to bring along her friends to turn her work vacation into a girls' trip. Joining Ryan is Sasha (Queen Latifah),an ex-journalist from Time Magazine who now owns a floundering gossip site and is struggling financially; Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith),a nurse and uptight mom who has not had a boyfriend since her divorce years earlier and Dina (Tiffany Haddish),a happy-go-lucky, impulsive party animal who was fired after assaulting a co-worker shortly before the trip. While on the trip, Sasha is sent a tip that shows a picture of a black man's head kissing an Instagram model, presumed to be Ryan's husband, Stewart. The friends are reluctant to tell Ryan, but when Dina spills the news, Ryan shocks them by telling them she is already aware of the situation and that they are in couple's counseling. Nevertheless, when Dina sees Stewart at their hotel, she threatens him with a broken bottle, resulting in her getting ejected and banned from the hotel. In solidarity all the girls leave with her, but the only hotel they are able to get is a sleazy one-star motel frequented by customers of prostitutes.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Top cast
Queen Latifah as Sasha Franklin
Kate Walsh as Elizabeth Davelli
Regina Hall as Ryan Pierce
Deborah Ayorinde as Simone
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 887.8 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
R
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The Flossy Posse.
Meeting up with a friend before Easter,I originally ordered this for us to both watch together,but due to a delay in it arriving in the post,I ended up getting the excellent Comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as an alt choice in a local shop instead. With it finally arriving a week later,I got set to at last go on a trip with the girls.
View on the film:
Tripping at the real Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, (a good paid holiday for the cast and crew!) director Malcolm D. Lee & cinematographer Greg Gardiner catch the groove with glossy wide-shots that play out the big gags in the middle of vast crowds. Feeling like large parts of the film were improvised, editors Paul Millspaugh takes what could have been snappy,raunchy gags,and pulls them to breaking point,with each would-be punch-line being missed by aimless repetition that grinds the laughs down to a thud. Not helping rid the feeling of the painful dialogue (which chucks in a dozen "Oh hell no!" for maximum cringe) being made up on the spot, the writers have an inability to give the friends any moments of calm conversation/friendship building in the first half,which causes the attempt to give the ending a dramatic heft to ring false. Hitting the flick with some much needed sass, Queen Latifah gives the standout performance as the playfully soulful Sasha Franklin on this failed road trip.
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Girls Trip: The female 'Hangover' though not funny at all
Shocking (but not in a good way) the story of 4 friends who reunite and have a crazy weekend in New Orleans. I am not the target audience, demonstrated by the fact that I was in my local packed cinema attended by only 4 blokes (incl. me).
This film is interested in money, the media world, portrays the worst of black culture stereotypes and women as property. The film is 2 hours of total nonsense, but it felt like 4.
Not funny, terrible attempts at adult humour, endless vulgarity, endless f-bombs, gross, disgusting. In fact I wish I could un-see some of the scenes. It's the worst film this year.
Please stay away from this rubbish or they'll make a sequel 'Girls Trip 2 – Another Delightful Weekend Away' AGHHHH!