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Girls Trip - Movie review
By Rouén Robinson
Jul 27, 2017 - 4:34:23 PM

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The tagline for this movie: You’ll Be Glad You Came. Four friends for life unite on a long-overdue weekend getaway trip for a music festival. As they rekindle their bond by rediscovering their youthful wild sides, it becomes clear to each how to go forward in life.

Ryan Pierce is the author of a successful book who is looking to cement a deal for a line of products to be sold at a national super-store chain if she can make it through the weekend with her friends. Sasha Franklin runs a web page where she posts celebrity gossip, but with viewership down and bills rising she is looking to get a scoop on a celebrity scandal while on the trip. Dina is a young woman who has just been fired from her job and wants to enjoy everything the trip has to offer her in any variety of situations. Lisa Cooper works in the medical field and is the mother of two, who has been living with her mother since her husband parted ways with her and does not know that her friends want her to use the trip to get back in touch with her more fun self. Stuart Pierce is Ryan’s husband who has been having an affair with an Instagram model which may jeopardize his wife’s lucrative deal.

Girls Trip is an hilarious comedy for adults that focuses on the creation of comedic circumstances where realistic outcomes supply the humor. I liked this more than I expected to from the trailer as it did not give away the funniest moments in the movie. What they provided us with were well thought out and acted set pieces that work within the arc of the story. The cast is strong with each performer supplying the audience with a well rounded character whose motivation for what they do is in keeping with the tone of the motion picture. Malcolm D. Lee does a solid directing job on the screenplay from Will Packer and Tracy Oliver by giving us a comedy that generates genuine laughter in its execution. The movie makes sure you feel that you are in the real world and not some bubble comedy universe where actions don’t have consequences and that help make the experience fun. By setting the film during the Essence Music Festival they were able to incorporate some fun musical guests that rode the nostalgia train and New Orleans is a setting that is a character in itself.

I rate this movie a rating of 4 out of 5.


See other reviews by Rouén HERE.


Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen


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