Rough Night * *

      To say I was disappointed with a film like this might seem ridiculous, but actually I was.

      I know, I know, it’s a bit like saying I was disappointed with a Macca’s (why doesn’t it taste like culinary food?), but I had expected more than this, mainly because of the cast.

"Really Flip! It was that bad?!"
"Yes, girls I'm afraid it was."

      It’s got some fine actresses that really work hard to keep this second rate effort afloat but you can only do so much with a dumb script.  For a comedy of girls behaving badly it absolutely pales to something like Bridesmaids or Pitch Perfect.

     As for Scarlett Johanssen, that girl really needs to be a bit more careful.  She is a fine actress with immense diversity but this and Ghost In the Shell are definitely not the diversity she needs.

       Rough Night is about four girls who are old college friends, and a ring-in - Kate McKinnon, pretending to be an Australian with a not real bad accent - she is also the best character, and performer, in this film, by far.  

      The girls are getting together for a wild weekend bash before one of them gets married. They go down to Miami for some shenanigans where things go wildly wrong with too much drugs and a dead body to be disposed of.

      It’s a tired, simplistic old story of thinking you've done wrong only to find out you’ve actually done good only to find out you’ve done wrong only to find out you’ve done good….(I barely raised a chuckle).

      The main trouble is there are very few genuinely funny (as in smart) lines and the plot is tired and paint by numbers.