Review of Ibiza (2018) by Fawn O — 20 Nov 2018

"Ibiza" makes a respectable effort towards more reasonable female characters by moving away from the typical cookie-cutter, two-dimensional female characters we've come by in similar roll-down-the windows, strap-on-those-heels, let's-go-dancing-with-strangers-in-clubs chick flicks where girls just want to have fun on a very common, yet pretending to be some wildly unusual reinventing the wheel "Girl's Night Adventure" that changes them all in different ways; but in a lasting and impactful manner that only serves to perpetuate stereotypes the film promised to address.

"Ibiza" doesn't really promise anything; what you get on the surface is all it has to offer. It doesn't exactly resolve with women desperately dropping their lives to chase around men who aren't good for them. They actually manage to prioritize more important and--potentially--more fulfilling things... but just barely. They were walking a fine line during the majority of the story, if we're being completely fair. It's really only a smidgen better than what one is likely to predict here.

Gillian Jacobs and her equally humourous female co-stars, Vanessa Bayer and Phoebe Robinson play feisty and tolerably accessible characters who exude detectable levels of chemistry making the trio's, albeit trivial, shenanigans watchable. Besides, who doesn't love a woman flipping off her insufferable boss, quits a job from which she's seconds from being fired, starts her own lady-fronted business, and makes the man she's romantically involved with drop whatever he'd doing to desperately chase her around instead? And you must appreciate the clever feminism back=peddling in the third act.

[C] -- 58%.