Review of Girls Trip (2017) by Handjive — 18 Dec 2017

This flick was a huge waste of talent. This group of talented actors gamely go through the motions of trying to give their characters some heart, but all the while they are wallowing in a ridiculous pool of muck.

"Gross out comedy" can be done well, but here it is not so. As a white viewer, I have to admit that I don't know how four black women interact amongst themselves, but I am quite certain there are not four women of any color who would ever come close to this level of constant and purely gross, demeaning stupidity.

F-bombs? Sure, we got truckloads. Wet, noisy oral sex simulated with fruit at a breakfast table? Check. Worshipping big dicks? Yep. Talking about asses and what comes in or out of them? Incessantly. A woman hanging on a wire above a crowd of people and accidentally urinating on them? Sadly, yes.

And that was so fun, we also get a SECOND woman hanging on a wire above a crowd of people urinating on them, this time intentionally. It seemed the only thing missing was for these characters to literally throw poo at each other.

I seriously suspect they have saved that scene for the director's cut.