Channelling The Hangover, Bridesmaids and Mamma Mia!, this female twist on the group-of-old-friends-reunited-for-a-wild-weekend story is surprisingly entertaining. It exists in that alternate reality of female comedy-drama wish-fulfilment movies in which the women are impossibly glamorous, men are either feckless cheats, sex-objects or a perfect romantic hero, and not a shred of it is believable apart from one key factor: the friendship between the four women. Using similar character archetypes to the recent Ghostbusters reboot but with far more successful and enjoyable chemistry, the canny casting of four terrifically talented actresses (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Tiffany Haddish) makes the film work and elevates the material. The musical/concert interludes add little, and the serious scenes are more soap opera than drama, but the film bowls along on the interplay of the four leads, loads of energy and (barely) enough raucous humour to be good, lightweight fun.
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