Girls Trip gets an F for extremely foul

Movie Title: 

 Girls Trip

Grade:  F for FOUL

Rating: R, 122 minutes

In a Nutshell:  I guess I just don’t get this movie.  In fact, I hated it. Audiences are loving it, but I thought it was one of the most crude, trashy movies I had ever seen.  I’m honestly surprised that the talented cast would want to be part of such a disgusting, filthy script.

Uplifting theme: 

• Friendship, forgiveness, loyalty
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• “Realize your own truth.” – Ryan (Regina Hall)
• Power to rediscover your own voice
• It’s better to be alone than with someone who disrespects you.

Things I liked:

• The cast includes Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish.  I thought Tiffany's character was the most disgusting and disgraceful, so I guess you could say she did a great job.
• Some music celebrity cameos.  The Essence Music Festival occurs every year in New Orleans.
• I got a kick out of all of Queen Latifah’s hairstyles.

Things I didn’t like:

• TONS of nasty, crude jokes, foul behavior, offensive language, and repulsive images.
• The girls do horribly crude things and have a night of extremely bad behavior and then they kneel down to pray.  So, praying makes all of their bad character, foul language and trashy behavior OK all of a sudden? I believe in repentance, but the very next day they go out and do it all again.
• The girlfriends scream profanities at each other and are constantly fighting. 
•  Two of the women pee all over everyone from a zip-line above a crowd.  Disgusting.  I’m not talking about a little dribble either.  Think full-on spraying hose.  Gross.  Not funny.

• Ryan’s husband cheats on her, yet she flirts with someone else and thinks it's OK.
• The two token white girls were both painted as idiots.
• Why are so many movies coming out that glorify girls behaving badly?
• I love a good comedy, but the jokes in this movie were juvenile and disgusting.

Tips for parents: 

• Pure garbage.  If you wanted your kids to watch this movie with a filter, it would be about a 10 minute movie.
• Extreme profanity and offensive language.  That’s not even including the 429,871 F-bombs.
• Drugs, alcohol, sex, fighting
• Full-frontal nudity of an old guy.  Yuck.
• Dina opens her shirt up at a concert to reveal pasties.
• Very immodest clothing.

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