Girls Trip
1:00 pm
Every once in a while a shitty movie that has clones like it that are poorly received will just get high praise for no reason. Girls Trip is one of those for me. I’m sorry but what do people like about this? The praise is absurdly high for what we’re given. The cinematography is terrible. The music is repulsive, distracting, and ruins the already unfunny scenes. The acting sucks. Almost every comedy scene feels forced. They have to stretch reality so much to make these ridiculous jokes fit into a scene. It’s not like it’s intentionally absurd or anything. It’s not grounded and it’s not absurd. It’s just this stupid spot in the middle. It’s just so dumb. It’s just Grown Ups. Nothing happens, the characters screw around, the cast and crew go on vacation while making it and it expects the audience to just have fun. What is fun? It looks like fun to be at the 2016 Essence Music Festival. I wish I was there instead of having to watch other people have fun there. I thought surely because this is so highly praised that even though I wouldn’t like it, I’d at least see the angle that people like. Nope. It’s just another worthless portly made comedy that has great reviews for some reason. 292
People just say “it’s fun” which is okay I guess but like how? What’s fun? I can call any movie fun. I guess all you have to do is just film your vacation and don’t forget to put a couple of fake ass forced emotional scenes in it and it’ll get praise. I don’t know man I don’t know. Good for you all. Enjoy it. Not my thing, sorry. If I was watching it at home I would’ve turned it off about 30 minutes in because the film feels like an eternity with it’s non-structure. It’s feels three hours long. I’m not being hyperbolic. If I didn’t know the runtime I would’ve genuinely guessed three hours. This has absolutely no business being two hours long. The movie froze after the 30 minute mark and then ended 90 minutes later.
For a while I was thinking “Am I really gonna rate this a 0.5/5? It’s not one of the worst movies ever and I usually rate 0.5/5 to movies that piss me off.” Then I remembered I rated Book Club 2 a 0.5/5 and it’s basically the same movie to me. It’s not nasty or infuriating or anything. It’s just a failure. There’s really not much good about it. I expect nothing less from a <PERSON> film. It fits right in with his filmography in my eyes. No sore thumb here. Waste of time. 480