Girls Trip
- 2017
- Tous publics
- 2h 2m
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and r... Read allWhen four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
- Awards
- 13 wins & 42 nominations total
- Print Reporter
- (as Janeline Condez Hayes)
- DJ
- (as Wayne 'Wild Wayne' Benjamin Jr.)
- Vikram
- (as Shrey Neil)
Featured reviews
This could have been a standard black girls' wild out on their lives fitting into the BET rotation with countless others. It's elevated by a couple of factors. The first is the wild performance from Tiffany Haddish. She's a comedian working her craft and getting some notice as a supporting character in The Carmichael Show. She's the wildly inappropriate character every broad modern comedies need but she does it with a smile and an inner joy. She's half clueless and half callous. The fruit fellatio scene is hilarious. The second is the writing from Kenya Barris, Black-ish creator, and Tracy Oliver. This creates some compelling characters which these experienced actors are able to inhabit. It is a broad comedy with heart. It's got the gross-out, highly-inappropriate jokes which really works here. The actors bring a humanity to their roles. They are ready to come out and set it off.
Very funny, great script, exceptional chemistry among all the stars. Often this doesn't come thru but all actors (male & female)represented very well. Great interface with New Orleans festival and makes you wonder were the scenes actually performed there or injected, lol.
Tiffany Haddish (Dina) stole the show and hopefully gets proper recognition.
Only warning is content definitely "R" rated so don't accept urge to bring younger audiences. Definitely adult content and adult humor.
Here, best friends who have only grown further apart since High School are hoping to reconnect at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
They're all basically types. Regina Hall has the most to work with as the one who only thinks she has it all together. The rest are the crazy one (Tiffany Haddish), obsessive one (Jada Pinkett), and gossipy one (Queen Latifah).
Through it all the girls will be brought on stage to dance with Puffy, have a dance-off with another set of girls, get into many fist fights and all kinds of other trouble.
It will also go for the most R-rated and nasty of crude jokes.
People I saw this movie with laughed through out at all of it and for their part, all four of these women embarrass themselves and get down and dirty very well.
Particularly this Tiffany Haddish, who will either annoy you or be your favorite part. She goes to some darkly funny places here the characters in Suicide Squad could only dream of.
But for all this talk of women in comedy, doing the same dick jokes men have been doing for so long really shouldn't be the apex. This is really just conquering a mole hill.
And please no more comedies that go over 2 hours long, particularly one like this where the plot suddenly has to kick in in the last half hour and it's just as generic as every other comedy about friendship.
On the one hand this is all really flimsy stuff which I got kinda tired of after 90 minutes, but it's also fun, tries hard for laughs, is very well cast and Hall has some good scenes in the last half.
I'd give it 6 out of 10 but I think if you can get past the clichés and you like toilet humor for a more than necessary period of time, you'll enjoy it a bit more.
If you liked this, please check out Craig James Review on Youtube for more.
Did you know
- TriviaFirst film produced, written, directed by and starring African-Americans to cross the $100-million mark.
- Quotes
Dina: You know, I got some bomb-ass kush if you wanna take a hit.
Lisa Cooper: Where did you hide it?
Dina: Where the sun don't shine.
Lisa Cooper: You know what, that can cause a lot of infections.
Dina: Girl, you can't get no infection in your booty hole! It's a booty hole!
- SoundtracksTreat 'Em Right
Written by McKinley Jackson, Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals, Howie Tee (as Howard Thompson), Chubb Rock (as Richard Simpson)
Performed by Chubb Rock
Courtesy of Select Records
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Box office
- Budget
- $19,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $115,171,585
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $31,201,920
- Jul 23, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $140,552,359
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1