![]() Most of us have a friend like Dina – some of us are Dinas – often underestimated, she doesn’t care what other people think and always supports her friends. Karma is proved to exist (if only!), and Lisa gets some great sex (“you said you were a nurse! What happened to a normal blow job!” shrieks her toyboy lover, he of the affore-mentioned citrus-garlanded penis).ĭina is over the top but that doesn’t make her a caricature. There are some good set pieces: the zipwee a dance off in a club between the Flossy Posse and Simone and her friends and Dina’s demonstration of the grapefruit bj technique (yes I know I keep going on about it) which shows it’s possible to eat healthily at all times. ![]() And as a mum whose nightmare after having two children (including one really enormous one with a cannonball for a head) is the idea of getting stuck on a zipwire when needing a wee, I now know never to go on a zipwire when needing a wee. There’s lots of female bonding and lots of fun the women who pray together, slay together. The jokes are fabulous and rude, and I learned a lot, particularly about grapefruits. She’s a white woman who even after a polite but clear warning from her client to stop using phrases she’s read in the Urban Dictionary, cannot stop littering her conversations with Ryan with Preach! Queen! and Bye girl! ![]() Outside of the posse, but also in New Orleans, is Liz (Kate Walsh), Ryan’s agent. She’s also prone to occasional outbreaks of violence but only towards people we don’t like. Loud, sexy, funny and forthright, she always has her friends’ backs. She hasn’t had sex since her divorce, and her first night outfit on their trip away would be turned down by the National Association Of Frumps (association mascot – Emily Blunt’s cardigan from Girl On A Train).ĭina (Tiffany Haddish) has just lost her job but is planning on going in to work as usual on Tuesday morning anyway. She and her children live with her own mother, and Lisa has rather lost her zing. Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith) is a nurse and a single mom. She’s also broke, and there’s some bad blood between her and Ryan going back years. Sasha (Queen Latifah), a once-serious journalist, is now the owner of paparazzi-friendly blog Sasha’s Secrets. The Flossy Posse are an interesting group, though like many longterm friends they’re reaching those crossroads in life that force them to question whether nostalgia is keeping them together, or they simply need a chance to reconnect. Ryan (Regina Hall), offered a hugely prestigious gig as Essence keynote speaker, decides this is the ideal opportunity for her Flossy Posse – who have barely seen each other for five years – to meet up for a riotous weekend. (If you don’t know about grapefruit then you really need to update your bj technique.) And all the nudity is male – one elderly willy flashed at them through a window, and one certainly not elderly willy encased in two – yes two – grapefruit. The actresses are almost all playing their age or slightly younger (having graduated from college in 1995). ![]() There is plenty more about Girls Trip that’s refreshing, including but not limited to grapefruits. What makes it unusual is that it’s about four successful black women, visiting a black music festival ( Essence in New Orleans).Īnd the sparkling and heartfelt performances from the four leads, plus the sheer boisterousness of the script, makes it a proper laugh-out-loud watch. The basic plot for Girls Trip is familiar – four best friends from college who’ve drifted apart go away together and rediscover their friendship, while negotiating faultlines in their relationships with each other and with other people. Which leaves her with less and less wriggle room as it starts to become clear that their definitions of “having it all” are rather different, with his including sleeping with an Instagram model called Simone. Ryan and her footballer husband are turning themselves into a mega-brand. “I control my destiny… if I will it, I can have it all” says Ryan, a successful writer and motivational speaker who is about to enter the big league (think Oprah crossed with Martha Stewart) with her new book You Can Have It All.
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