Headlining these grads of the class of 1995 is Regina Hall, a regular in Lee’s “Best Man” films, who is promoted to lead as Ryan Pierce, a sleekly pulled-together self-help guru and best-selling author of a book, You Can Have It All-which, for her, includes her retired NFL star husband and business partner, Stewart ( Mike Colter of Netflix’s “Luke Cage”). Lee knows how to stock a cast full of top-shelf talent as proven by “The Best Man” films and “ Barbershop: The Next Cut.” But he outdoes himself as a matchmaker this time by gathering an insanely likable and capable quartet of actresses to play the college chums who proudly proclaim themselves as the Flossy Posse. Yes, this is another equal-opportunity ensemble of females gone wild, most recently observed in the subpar “ Bad Moms” and “ Rough Night.” While “ Bridesmaids” and the “ Sex and the City” franchise might have redefined such bosom-buddy bonding while trafficking in the usual raunchy, rude and rowdy behavior, “Girls Trip,” with its epic two-hour length, apparently aims to be the “Lord of the Rings” of sisters doing it for themselves, one that gets a whole lot right that the others too often get wrong.īy now, director Malcolm D. “Girls Trip” is the ladies-on-the-loose comedy that everyone needs right now, even if they don’t know it yet.
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