Four women grew up as seemingly inseparable friends. But then life, as it is wont to do, find a way to separate them. So when lifestyle guru Ryan is offered the role of keynote speaker at the Essence Music Festival, she sees it as a chance to re-unite the gang and rebuild her connections with single mom Lisa, wild child Dina, and gossip site owner Sasha. All three bring baggage and issues with them of course, but as the weekend will quickly reveal, not even Ryan's seemingly picture perfect life is quite as comfortable as it seems to be. There will be hard moments as well as joyous ones on this Girls Trip.
Frequently crass and occasionally schmaltzy (especially at the end), Girls Trip powers through its occasional missteps on the back of its rapid fire dialogue and the charisma of its four main players. It's bright and breezy and there are plenty of laughs to be had in between the particularly off-colour moments or the the more drama-focused ones.
If I were to quibble with the movie, it would probably be to say that I wish a film that seems so enthusiastic about female friendship spent a little less time focused on their relationships with men. But honestly, that wasn't an issue that occurred to me while I was watching the movie; only afterward. Like I said, it powers through its missteps.
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