We figured Girls Trip was the black girls version of Rough Night, which we saw a couple weeks ago. In both, four friends who have grown a little estranged get together again and try to act like everything is ok, until the last scene where the main character is broken down and they admit that things are worse than they have seemed.
Girls Trip stars Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish. Regina is the main girl who the story circles around. She is a famous book writer and TV personality, who writes about Having everything and being able to enjoy it or some nonsense like that. She has a handsome football player husband and they come out guest starring on shows like Oprah and Ellen and everyone loves them as the perfect couple. The only thing, of course, is that they are not as perfect as they want to let on. Queen Latifah plays her friend who it comes out, they were going to go into business together, but Regina did not want to take the same risks, so she ventured out on her own. She has a so-so business through a website kind of like Perez Hilton where celebrities and famous people are ridiculed or used for profit. She gets pictures of Regina's husband making out with some slutty girl and has to decide whether to make some money out of it or stay loyal to her friend. Jada Pinkett-Smith plays the only one having kids and thus has become more conservative, the other girls decide she needs some sex and as fast as possible. The fourth friend Tiffany is a loose cannon, she's the one ordering four alcohol drinks on a one hour flight, and then attacking the husband of Regina with a bottle of champagne which she snags while running towards him in the hotel lobby and smashing to produce a sharp edge to cut him. She is hilarious, and makes the movie funny.
Regina has been chosen to speak in New Orleans for some festival, and she says she will go if she can include her girls, who they used to call themselves the Flossy Posse, in college. This is supposed to be cool somehow, maybe it's a black girl thing, but I don't remember growing up and anyone being in a "posse", but I did grow up in a small town. Anyways, she feels that this is a good way to get the crew together after not seeing each other for a few years. Like in Rough Night which I said is similar, they start out in a fancy hotel, R.N. had the fancy beach house, shenanigans then happen to take the girls a little off course. They have all sorts of adventures showing off New Orleans, which personally reminded me of the time we went and makes me want to go again. Watching the bands playing randomly in the street, the beads getting thrown in the streets, and the flavor of the town, which I found exotic and interesting when ,we were there, but my mom found ominous and a bit intimidating, she did not enjoy it.
The girls have a big falling out, and they yell and cuss each other out in the last part of the movie, then they make out like best friends do, and they come together to give Regina the true strength she has been lacking, to be her own true self, and not her husband's door mat.
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