Watched this movie with friends Andrea, Aj and Jacky on Friday.
IMDB says: Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami.
In this Lucia Aniello (Broad City, Time Travelling Bong) written and directed film, also written by Paul W. Downs (Broad City, Time Travelling Bong) who also stars as Peter, main character Jess's betrothed in the film. Jess is played by Scarlett Johansson (Lucy, Chef), who embarks upon a bachelorette party with friends Alice (Jillian Bell: 22 Jump Street, The Night Before), Blair (Zoe Kravitz: Divergent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Frankie (Ilana Glazer: Broad City, The Night Before) and Pippa (Kate McKinnon: Finding Dory, Ghostbusters) AKA Kiwi.
When they get to the house where they are going to stay in Miami, they encounter neighbours Pietro (Ty Burrell: Dawn of the Dead, TVs Modern Family) and Lea (Demi Moore: Ghost, A Few Good Men) who seem overtly sexual and keen on Blair. After a night of partying, with drugs and alcohol, they go back to the house where Pippa orders pizza and Frankie decides to hire a male stripper, Jay (Ryan Cooper: Eye Candy, Confess) from Craigslist. When he arrives and stripteases for Jess, Alice wants to get in on the action so jumps on him causing his chair to fall over and him to bang his head violently on the fireplace behind. He is bleeding heavily and the girls freak out, giving half-hearted CPR, but he is dead. Panicking because the house is made of glass and the pizza guy has arrived, they hurry to hide the body.
Meanwhile Jess' fiancé Peter is wine-tasting with his buddies and calls to see how Jess is doing, she blabs that something went wrong with the stripper, and in their panic to shut her up the girls grab the phone so Jess does not hear him ask if she still wants to get married. Frankie smashes the phone and Peter is left thinking that she does not want to marry him so decides to drive to Miami to win her back.
Sadly this unoriginal movie (a bad remake of Very Bad Things with a smattering of Weekend at Bernie's) has a poor script, no plot, ridiculous antics of toilet humour, bad fake accents, swinger neighbours, STDs to name but a few, and just plain predictability, because yes, my friend's and I spent most of the movie correctly predicting what would happen next - the only thing we didn't get right was Pippa's 'story arc' as she didn't have one and quite frankly, we could not see the point of her character at all. We even wondered if she had written it, but it turns out the guy who played the fiancé had.
There was zero chemistry between any of the cast and the acting was not up to much, mostly overacting to be honest, and certainly not the calibre for a good comedy. You just don't care about any of the characters and the highlight for us was when my friend recognised Colton Hayes (Teen Wolf, TVs Arrow) as Real Scotty.
There were a couple of laughs in among and for a night where you wish to talk and drink and have a movie on in the background, this would be great. Don't forget the mid-credit and post credit scenes, if you care enough to watch for that long.
Trivia: The film was originally going to be titled Rock That Body, filming took place in Long Beach, California, in October 2016, while the pier restaurants and bars of Hermosa Beach, California, were used as stand-ins for Miami nightlife and Jillian Bell and Ilana Glazer have previously starred in The Night Before (2015).
Tagline: What's your alibi? 2/10
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