Four college friends use the opportunity of one of them being keynote speaker at an event to celebrate successful black women in New Orleans to reconvene the Fluffy Posse and behave badly. Except that leader
Ryan (Regina Hall) has a very successful TV and book brand going on, trading on her close and loving relationship with her husband. Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith) has two young children and has taken on a Mom role towards everyone. Sasha (Queen Latifah) runs a failing gossip blog, and Dina (Tiffany Haddish) - well, who knows what she does, but it doesn't matter, because she has the foulest mouth of the lot. These four college friends use the opportunity of Ryan being keynote speaker at an event to celebrate successful black women in New Orleans as an excuse to reconvene the Fluffy Posse, which used to behave badly at college. But Ryan has to be squeaky clean. And Lisa is very mumsy and hasn't got laid in years.
This Women Behaving Badly comedy breaks records for crudeness and bad language: a sequence involving ziplining across a street intersection had my jaw dropping and my eyebrows raising. Having said that, most of the audience were women, and there was a great deal of raucous laughter, and also applause at the speech Ryan gave at the end. It was often funny, and the four principals played it well and looked like they were having a good time. It was also interesting seeing Regina Hall act, having only ever seen her play caricatures in the Scream movies.
There was a rather mawkish centre to this - the female equivalent of bros before hos, surround by a tide of fllth in industrial quantities. And when I say quantities... actually, there is minimal nudity here, which always amuses me in American films which are verbally preoccupied with sex.
It's amusing but, dear me, it's rude.
This Women Behaving Badly comedy breaks records for crudeness and bad language: a sequence involving ziplining across a street intersection had my jaw dropping and my eyebrows raising. Having said that, most of the audience were women, and there was a great deal of raucous laughter, and also applause at the speech Ryan gave at the end. It was often funny, and the four principals played it well and looked like they were having a good time. It was also interesting seeing Regina Hall act, having only ever seen her play caricatures in the Scream movies.
There was a rather mawkish centre to this - the female equivalent of bros before hos, surround by a tide of fllth in industrial quantities. And when I say quantities... actually, there is minimal nudity here, which always amuses me in American films which are verbally preoccupied with sex.
It's amusing but, dear me, it's rude.